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why do people pronounce Lomax as Lumax??? as in Pub in Arrod

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They also use it for someone who's clumsy as in You gret lummax.

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I'll "side" the table (Clear everything off it)

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I find myself wanting to say that - but my southerner other half hasn't a clue what it means, even if I keep explaining, so I don't say it. Jolly useful expression even so. Mind you our table is usually knee deep in papers, mail, etc which he never shifts so it would never get a proper siding anyway!

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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, there's brass".:D

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Ya Eric and where there's a will there are always relatives:rolleyes:

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One DiG used on a thread the other day:
To have a sneck - have a look round

Made me think of this one:
To have words -Argue

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Another way of saying this - ah've a bone to pick wi thee
OR ah've a crow to pick with thee (one of those black birds...not old dried snot).

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Haven't heard that in years! Good one Margaret:)

How about : Summats up...somethings wrong!

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I didnt get some of these as old expressions as I am using them today and have done for "donkeys years"

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Easy as pie....now where does that one come from?

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Was that on your way up Donkey Steps?

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Not sure if folks will know wert donkey steps are, I knew a bloke that drove his reliant robin down them from the globe club until he got to the back alley, he then turned left. You couldn't make it up, well you could, but you'd be telling lies then.

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Done up to the nines - over-dressed!

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Are the donkey steps those that go up to Bullough park?

If they are, we used to call them The Sharp bonks.