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Forum: Questions and Answers 14-06-2012, 18:47
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Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

I prefer to do the technicolor yawn.;)
Forum: Questions and Answers 22-05-2012, 22:14
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Shut the door: Put wood i' t'hole.
Forum: Questions and Answers 22-05-2012, 21:40
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Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Or a Rolf Harris song;)
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 18:27
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

I think mulligrubbing is a lot like getting your arse tanned ... but with lots of other gratuitous violence thrown in.:D
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:54
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Me neither ... but I do remember "dancers" as stairs ... not the "dilly" bit, nor "Bedfordshire" ... but certainly "get up them bloody dancers, or I'll tan your arse.";)
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2012, 15:51
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

It's something like a piece of cake;)
Forum: Questions and Answers 09-05-2012, 18:48
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

I was just reading a review of "Fifty Shades of Grey" and I found a local expression used in the "Daily Express": "Fifty Shades" might well be filth, but as everyone knows, where there's muck,...
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-09-2011, 20:09
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Nowt wrong wi' that:D
Forum: Questions and Answers 04-09-2011, 07:38
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

In the interests of gender equality: "eeh, if she fell in a barrel of (to be continued ....);)
Forum: Questions and Answers 03-09-2011, 08:07
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

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Forum: Questions and Answers 23-08-2011, 07:43
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

I think it started before tv ... maybe the increased mobility during the Industrial Revolution ... I do remember hearing from Sam Wignall in a history class that Pitt reorganised the British army in...
Forum: Questions and Answers 22-08-2011, 15:14
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

And how many of us had to get up in the morning when it was as cold a whore's kiss and beat (beet?) the fire?
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-08-2011, 12:47
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Vegetarian: Comes from an old Mohawk word meaning "can't hunt worth a damn";):D
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-08-2011, 00:10
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

If it swims, I catch it. If it runs or flies, I shoot it.

Just for the heck of it, and in the interests of expat participation in threads, there's an expression about duck hunting in these...
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-08-2011, 18:59
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Your eyes are greedier than your belly.
Forum: Questions and Answers 18-08-2011, 18:51
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

So the couple of tanners and the threepenny bit my grandad used to give me wouldn't get me through the door ... and I doubt you could get a buzz out of a quid, eh:confused::mad: Of course, my first...
Forum: Questions and Answers 18-08-2011, 17:44
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Which use to be a couple of bob;):D, or half that would get you a gill .... what is it now:confused:
Forum: Questions and Answers 17-08-2011, 18:57
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Just noticed this ... I'm slowing down in my old age.

I remember a quote attributed to John Arlott, though it's probably apocryphal: "And there's Ted Dexter at...
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-08-2011, 18:57
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

You know, bud, I kinda figured you were going to say something like this;):D
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-08-2011, 13:51
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Not even the drunk tank:eek::D
Forum: Questions and Answers 14-08-2011, 01:16
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Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Where there's muck, there's brass .... if owt's worth doin', it's worth doin' well.

The first one reminds me of Basil Brierly ... those who knew the Village Blacksmith, and the Bottom Club in...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-08-2011, 12:49
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

I remember an early episode of Coronation St. in which Elsie Tanner was about to be evicted. Ena Sharples said something to the effect that Elsie would be allowed to keep her bed and the tools of...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-08-2011, 12:42
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Didn't know you'd done time, bud;)
Forum: Questions and Answers 12-08-2011, 23:00
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."
Forum: Questions and Answers 12-08-2011, 20:56
Replies: 727
Views: 35,684
Posted By Eric
Re: Old local expressions

Anyone remember "dancers" for stairs?
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