katyjay 5,085 Posted August 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 I ordered a tonic water at the bar and was asked if I'd like a lime in it. Sure, says I, let's push the boat out. I'm sure he thought I was barmy. It was something you heard a lot in my childhood, but I hadn't said that in at least 30 years, funny how things just pop back in your mind. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 If we were all alike, what would be the use of fancy waistcoats! I'd not heard that one before but rather like it! A friend's grandmother quoted it regularly, apparently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 If someone was knowledgeable, He knows his onions. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 If someone was doing really well and was very pleased with themselves, mam would say that they were 'in their eye 'oles'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 And my mother would swear without swearing Saying "Arm oles" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 #2104 Mine too, Chulla! I think it was a corruption of the word "aisles". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beduth 202 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Oh yes Jill, that would be right. Nothing to do with arsenal then! lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beduth 202 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 "So where are you going Dad?" "There and back to see how far it is, Son" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 Mine used to say: "To see Lobby Ludd" ....whoever he was! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 Remember me Dad looking for 'Lobby Ludd' on holiday in Rhyl mid 50s,..........apparently if you recognised him you got a Fiver'.......sumat to do with a Newspaper?............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 Are you sure your dad didn't have a nasal problem, and he was really saying Robin Hood? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 When things went pear shaped, dad would come out with 'Flaming Hellfire'. It always made me chuckle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 #2111 I did once ask him that, Katyjay, and he said it was Robin Hood's uncle! He also used to say he was going to see a man about a dog and once told me that when I was a baby, he'd tried to swap me for a puppy but the owner of the puppy said he wasn't interested because the dog was a better looking! Damned cheek! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 Remember me Dad looking for 'Lobby Ludd' on holiday in Rhyl mid 50s,..........apparently if you recognised him you got a Fiver'.......sumat to do with a Newspaper?............. Yes, this is what he was on about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud I can remember the Daily Mirror for one still doing something on those lines in the 1960s. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nippergrant 19 Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 On 30/05/2016 at 5:10 PM, Beduth said: What's a well with out a bucket ??? Reply please. A HOLE WITH WATER IN IT Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SteveS 23 Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 I've read a lot of the posts and many of my grandad's sayings are mentioned elsewhere but .... I'll go tut foot of our stairs. It's black over Bill's mother's. You're nesh or mardy - never really understood these Going there and back to see how far it is. I'm going down the end (the end of the yard when he wanted a fag (Park Drive of course) Sucker (ice lolly), tuffee (for any sweet) - I was from London so this was alien language to me And one that was totally unfathomable ... Well I never, did you ever see a pig without a blether (maybe he made this one up). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 You're wandering round like a lost Jew. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 If you asked mam something and she didn't know the answer, she'd say Christ knows - and he won't split. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gem 1,430 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Anyone been called a flibity gibbet - used to think my grandmother was talking about a fairy.  As I got older worked it out. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Radford speak for go upstairs.. "Gerrup those dancers"!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted September 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 If someone got caught out doing something wrong, mam would say 'he's for the high jump' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Mi dogs a barkin............My feet ache 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 If we bought something that turned out to be useless, or came across something that was just not fit for purpose, Â it would be described as " a bit knick knack puff", no idea where that came from but has been in family use for years! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Eee I could stretch a mile,........if it want fuh coming back............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted September 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 If you had to be up really early to go somewhere the next morning, mam would say, you had to sit up all night wi' ya 'at on, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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