Old local expressions - Page 35

stetrovers · 23-04-2012, 19:55

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

walkinman221 · 23-04-2012, 20:49

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

keith higson · 08-05-2012, 01:47

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

susie123 · 08-05-2012, 08:28

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Originally Posted by keith higson

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

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!

Eric · 09-05-2012, 18:48

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".

jaysay · 09-05-2012, 18:53

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

mobertol · 15-05-2012, 12:29

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

Margaret Pilkington · 15-05-2012, 12:41

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Originally Posted by mobertol

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

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).

mobertol · 15-05-2012, 12:43

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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).

Haven't heard that in years! Good one Margaret

How about : Summats up...somethings wrong!

davemac · 15-05-2012, 18:37

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

mobertol · 15-05-2012, 19:39

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

maxthecollie · 15-05-2012, 19:45

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Originally Posted by davemac

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

Was that on your way up Donkey Steps?

davemac · 15-05-2012, 21:13

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Was that on your way up Donkey Steps?

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.

mobertol · 16-05-2012, 12:20

Done up to the nines - over-dressed!

Margaret Pilkington · 16-05-2012, 13:22

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Originally Posted by davemac

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.

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

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