Old local expressions

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by garinda

Have you heard it though?

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

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.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by garinda

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



Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire

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).

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

Yes, that's probably a better definition.

On top do - someone highly strung, rather manic.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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).

I think mulligrubbing is a lot like getting your arse tanned ... but with lots of other gratuitous violence thrown in.

[Margaret Pilkington]

You could be right there Eric.......I know she said it through gritted teeth.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

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."

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

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by garinda

Yes, that's probably a better definition.

On top do - someone highly strung, rather manic.

Local version of "On top note" ? Perhaps..

[Margaret Pilkington]

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)

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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)

That doesn't sound like something your meek and mild Mam would say.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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)

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

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by mobertol

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

Or I'll take you to the police station. We were scared of coppers then.

[mobertol]

To true - except for Mr. Wilkinson who taught us road safety and cycling proficiency with Tufty!

[davemac]

This one occured to me as I posted elseware,

Put my lamps out= exhausting, or exhausted

[garinda]

Jiggered - exhausted.

'I'm jiggered.'

Also said when taken by suprise.

'Well I'll be jiggered!'

[jaysay]

Lying through their teeth, an expression used on politicians