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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by garinda
Glasses were also referred to as gigs, or bins,
Happily the pink for a girl, blues for a boy spectacles, seem to have been binned nowadays. |
Never heard of gigs or bins, some used to call them goggles - I distinctly remember one time "binning" my glasses when i was abut 8 or 9. I threw them down a drain at the side of the house and told mum I'd lost them 
I have actually returned to pink glasses recently. 
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