I know it isnt politically correct to use expressions like the following these days but how did the expression-he(or she) skens like a bucket of welks originate?
Old local expressions
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I alus thowt id wur "skens like a basket o whelks".I know it isnt politically correct to use expressions like the following these days but how did the expression-he(or she) skens like a bucket of welks originate?
Retlaw.
ah'll skutch thi dinner up(knock seven bells out of you)
her as a face like a ruptured custard(she is ugly)/melted welly/joss arsed baboon.
ah'll tek a bit o' thee hooam in mi pocket(fighting talk)
dusta want some clog toe pie? (more fighting talk)
a'hm ony walkin' abeawt to save buryin' money. ah carnt afford to dee(I'm proper poorly)
a'hm wakkerin' laik a tripe doll(trembling, shivering)
I'm sure I can think of some more...just give me time.
her as a face like a ruptured custard(she is ugly)/melted welly/joss arsed baboon.
ah'll tek a bit o' thee hooam in mi pocket(fighting talk)
dusta want some clog toe pie? (more fighting talk)
a'hm ony walkin' abeawt to save buryin' money. ah carnt afford to dee(I'm proper poorly)
a'hm wakkerin' laik a tripe doll(trembling, shivering)
I'm sure I can think of some more...just give me time.
There's a book written by Dave Dutton - I think it is called' Lanky Talk', which has pagefuls of these sayings in.
Oose a face like 5 mile a bad ruad.
Thal ged a naeve intut gasish.
Al thicken thi lugs fur thi.
Im as feughts an stands is ground, ul ged his is bluddy clock knocked reaund.
Retlaw.
I always remember as a small boy in the 50s when i lived in Church looking into the buckets of whelks outside morphets greengrocers on Victoria st.and wondering do they really sken?
The book is probably 'Lanky Spoken Here' He followed that with 'Completely Lanky'
Garinda's getten a face like a slapped arse.
Hoo's not fowest woman Ah've ever sin, but hoo certainly favvers 'er.
Garinda's getten a face like a slapped arse.
Hoo's not fowest woman Ah've ever sin, but hoo certainly favvers 'er.
I think the expresion is, in fact, 'skens like a basket o' whelps' ie new pups that can't yet see straight. The saying has been changed over the years as no-one seems to call pups whelps nowadays. As far as I know, whelks don't have eyes.
Yon mons about as much use as a back pocket in a vest.
Yons gittin a face like like a dropped pie.
Wur not all daft that slaver.
Yons gittin a face like like a dropped pie.
Wur not all daft that slaver.
Th'art as much good as a tripe shovel.
Sky is as black as devils nutting bag, one of me grans this one never heard anyone else say it,
Yes......that is one I use a lot....and another one is 'looks very black over Bob's mothers'....I have no idea where this came from, except my gran used it a lot.
Was talking to Joan last night watching the TV, and there was a woman on who looked a real mess I just said, well she don't half look a tuckle, Joan looked at me strange, she'd never heard the saying yet it was quite often used in my early years by the then elder people
It's not 'a gate', it's 'agate'I still think the funniest, very local colloquialism, is 'a gate'.
I were a gate.
You were a gate.
He/She/It were a gate.
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