Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 981613)

About as much use as a back pocket in a vest.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 987225)

Can't plough back through the whole thread to see if this is already on but was told by my friend's dad to come in and stop standing "like cheese at fourpence" the other day.

Is it because it didn't move off the stall as it was too expensive?

Originally Posted by keith higson (Post 990435)

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

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 991859)

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

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 991863)

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).

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 991948)

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

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 991970)

Was that on your way up Donkey Steps?

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 992004)

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.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992141)

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

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

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992141)

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

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

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992174)

If I went to my grandparents house(Higher Antley Street) that is the way we went to Bullough Park...but if we were at home we used to cut up the side of Highams big house(the one that is now a probation hostel) and go past Rose Place....we always called them the sharp bonks though....never heard them called the donkey steps.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 992804)

Not heard for a while, until today, that made me laugh.

'Top doe' (dough?) - excitably good mood, verging on the manic.





'He were on top doe last night.'

'Couldn't shut him up.'

'A reet giddy kipper.'

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 992808)

Musical origin?

Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do?

:confused:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992825)

Definitely G....I was just going to post as much.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 991964)

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

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992827)

as for going to bed...at our house there were a variety of expressions used.
'Up the wooden hill (to bedlam)'
'going to the blanket fair'
'going up the dilly dancers to bedfordshire'

I have no idea where any of these came from.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992827)

as for going to bed...at our house there were a variety of expressions used.
'Up the wooden hill (to bedlam)'
'going to the blanket fair'
'going up the dilly dancers to bedfordshire'

I have no idea where any of these came from.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 992829)

:D

Have you heard it though?

I thought afterwards it might just be a family saying, to do with bread.

:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 992831)

:D

We usually left Bedlam in our wake, as we climbed the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

:rolleyes::D

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992839)

Yes, frequently G.
It was used by both my parents and my G'parents....and in the context you used....although it was also used if someone was very het up about something, angry, upset, argumentative.......they were said to be 'on top do'......now we use top note....and that is why I think your derivation was correct.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992840)

We took bedlam with us.....four of us shared a double bed and so you canimagine what it was like...two at the top and two at the bottom......wrestling for the blankets, feet in your mush........many a time my ma has come flying up the stairs to 'sort us out'....threatening to mulligrub us(not sure what that entailed, but by the way she said it...you just knew it wouldn't be something you would enjoy).

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 992833)

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.";)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 992847)

Yes, that's probably a better definition.

On top do - someone highly strung, rather manic.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992923)

threats...'I'll flay you to within an inch of your life'
'I'll rip your arm out and beat you with the soggy end'
'I'll rip you 'ead off and bob down your neck'(ewww - nasty)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 992923)

threats...'I'll flay you to within an inch of your life'
'I'll rip your arm out and beat you with the soggy end'
'I'll rip you 'ead off and bob down your neck'(ewww - nasty)

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 992930)

Luckily I didn't have to hear these - I seem to remember non PC things about "black men" to keep us in our place. Then there was Jack Frost:eek:

Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 993415)

Does anyone know anything about 'Joe Soap'? As in, "Who's that"? "It's Joe Soap" when you don't know the person's name.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 993418)

This is what Wikipedia has to say, Anne:

"Joe Soap" is British rhyming slang denoting a foolish stooge or scapegoat. Joe being an ordinary person, with Soap as a rhyme for dope. The phrase appeared in a 1943 book of military slang by John Hunt and Alan Pringle: “Joe Soap, the ‘dumb’ or not so intelligent members of the forces. The men who are ‘over-willing’ and therefore the usual ‘stooges’.” The name Joe Soap appears in the WW1 song "Joe Soap's Army" sung to the tune of "Onward Christian Soldiers". ("Forward, Joe soap's army, marching without fear, with our brave commander, safely in the rear.")

Like many of the expressions posted on here, I don't think it's as "local" as you might think.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 992920)

I remember "tan your hide" - sounds like something from a western!:D

Originally Posted by egg&chips (Post 995927)

Anyone else used to say coaten or baulk to describe when someone was gipping (making throwing up noises etc)?

Originally Posted by egg&chips (Post 995927)

Anyone else used to say coaten or baulk to describe when someone was gipping (making throwing up noises etc)?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 995955)

I retch, miself

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 995957)

How about "heave" Jay?;)

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 995956)

Yep, it's one we used to say too -haven't heard it in ages though. When something made you feel like you wanted to be sick. There was a horrible smell on Frederick st. Ossy quite often from the mill -used to make you feel like that -don't know what it was but we all used to say it smelt like boiled oranges!

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 995981)

Another one for retch is jip.

Anyone else use that?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 995981)

Another one for retch is jip.

Anyone else use that?

It's also used for discomfort.

'My leg's givin' me jip again.'

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 995985)

Although it's apparently 'gyp', not jip.

Gyp | Define Gyp at Dictionary.com

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 995983)

'They took their dressing off, to show me their carbuncle, weeping with pus, and I started jipping.'

:D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 996073)

I barf and gag.
Barfs are noisy, gags are silent.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 996985)

Don't know whether it's already been mentioned, but came up in a conversation yesterday, and made me laugh, even though I hear it used a lot.

'Yes, three of 'em, as fit as fleas, and all well into their eighties.'

'Mind you none of 'em have ever been wed.'

'So no one's hoyned 'em'.'

Hoyned - pestered.

http://www.definition-of.net/hoyning

Also written as oined.

BBC - Lancashire - Fun Stuff - Ludicrous lists

(Funny one I'd forgotton, on the last link, 'clod hoppers' - big feet.)

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/dancing/...miley-face.gif

:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 997119)

Hylda Baker with her sidekick Cynthia'she knows, you know'.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 997129)

Well, she was a Lancashire Lass, born in Farnworth......the eldest of seven children.....and she did live in Blackpool for many years.
I loved her humour...slightly naughty, but without being offensive.

Originally Posted by Karateman (Post 997151)

These are taken from the Final Year exam English (comprehension) of the Hoddlesden Open University.....

What is meant by the following words or phrases.....

a. Thimamulkillthiifhoofindsuwt Thi mam will kill thee if who finds out.

b. Thersnowtwossthanbadaleancheekiekids Theres nowt worse than bad ale n cheeky kids

c. Idisndisisid c got me.:D;)

d. Owdustano How Do yeh know.

e. Astigeetacark Have yeh got a car(k)?............ Best i can do................................ There much brighter n me oer hoddlesden way.:D


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Phil

Originally Posted by Karateman (Post 997151)

These are taken from the Final Year exam English (comprehension) of the Hoddlesden Open University.....

What is meant by the following words or phrases.....

a. Thimamulkillthiifhoofindsuwt

b. Thersnowtwossthanbadaleancheekiekids

c. Idisndisisid It isnt this is it

d. Owdustano

e. Astigeetacark Have you got a cork

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Phil
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