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jedimaster · 04-03-2007, 05:09

don't know if i've come into this too late but i found this:

soft mick
Encyclopedia : S : SO : SOF : soft mick

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Soft Mick is a name used to describe an extravagance in East Lancashire and West Yorkshire

The phrase to have more than Soft Mick means to posess an extravagant quantity of that thing.

Soft Mick is seemingly used more in Accrington in conjunction with shoes "More shoes than Soft Mick" Leading some to believe that Soft Mick may have been a Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancs, in the early 1900s

dunno if it helps?

*thinkin about it i used to know a guy from sheffield way who used the phrase "am stood ere lik soft mick"*
along the lines of stood ere like cheese at fourpence(just another variation i suppose)

04-03-2007, 05:09	#116
jedimaster Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: in a dark,dark hole Posts: 1,419 Blog Entries: 1 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 2244	Re: Soft Mick. don't know if i've come into this too late but i found this: soft mick Encyclopedia : S : SO : SOF : soft mick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soft Mick is a name used to describe an extravagance in East Lancashire and West Yorkshire The phrase to have more than Soft Mick means to posess an extravagant quantity of that thing. Soft Mick is seemingly used more in Accrington in conjunction with shoes "More shoes than Soft Mick" Leading some to believe that Soft Mick may have been a Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancs, in the early 1900s dunno if it helps? thinkin about it i used to know a guy from sheffield way who used the phrase "am stood ere lik soft mick" along the lines of stood ere like cheese at fourpence(just another variation i suppose) __________________ www.matthowardphotography.webs.com Last edited by jedimaster; 04-03-2007 at 05:14.