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Old 03-09-2011, 16:50   #283
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by jaysay View Post
Another one in that vain I'm just off to point Percy at the porcelain
I rewatched Alan Bennett's 1975 play, Sunset Across the Bay , this week.

The main character said to his wife, before going into a toilet on the prom,
'I'm just going to shed a tear Mother.'

Amused me, though I'd never heard it before.

Must be a Yorkshire thing.

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