Old sayings

[IRENE BAINBRIDGE]

When I was a child I lived with my Grand-parents,f I asked my grandma a question that she didn't want to answer,she would say "It's Hetty Kitesring from Bash"(Baxenden) I have tried over the years to find out where the saying came from,I can't really imagine grandma making it up,can anybody throw any light on it?
Regards Irene Bainbridge (nee Davies)

 

[Less]

Perhaps it means 'I don't know and I don't care, stop bothering me you infernally precocious child'?

 

[jaysay]

Perhaps it means 'I don't know and I don't care, stop bothering me you infernally precocious child'?

Or words to that effect

 

[IRENE BAINBRIDGE]

Never I was an ANGEL

 

[Sunflower49]

Can't help you on that one!
You've reminded me though-when I was young my Grandmother used to say something that I've never heard before or since.. Say if you had a gadget or toy that she thought wasn't any good she'd say ;
'Ah you don't want that-It's neither nowt nor sommat!'

What that meant I've no clue-but I carry on her legacy by still saying it.

 

[davebtelford]

If we had some cream we could have strawberries and cream, if we had some strawberries.

 

[Margaret Pilkington]

If the grown ups were talking, and we asked who they were talking about it was always 'Icky, the fire bobby' or 'Lady Lace-Holes'....and if we asked what something was we were told it was 'lay o'ers fer meddlers, and crutches fer lame ducks'....if we asked how old a grown up was we were told 'as old as his tongue and younger than his teeth'.
I'm sure if I dredge my memory, I will think of more, but that's enough to be going on with.

 

[maxthecollie]

What about Ginny Green Teeth?

 

[Gordon Booth]

What about Ginny Green Teeth?

Wasn't that someone who'd come after you if you'd been naughty? Owd Jenny Greenteeth?

 

[Eric]

If the grown ups were talking, and we asked who they were talking about it was always 'Icky, the fire bobby' or 'Lady Lace-Holes'....and if we asked what something was we were told it was 'lay o'ers fer meddlers, and crutches fer lame ducks'....if we asked how old a grown up was we were told 'as old as his tongue and younger than his teeth'.
I'm sure if I dredge my memory, I will think of more, but that's enough to be going on with.

This is one I remember ... with my gran it was "'Icky, the fire bobby from Knuzden" ... Cashy should be able to translate it into accurate Lancashire, it's beyond me now, eh.

 

[claytonx]

Wasn't that someone who'd come after you if you'd been naughty? Owd Jenny Greenteeth?

I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.

 

[Eric]

I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.

Don't forget the boggarts in Mercer Park ... and those creatures (I can't remember their name) whose feet were on backwards According to my grandma Slater, there were some living in the paint works.

 

[Sunflower49]

'If you sit with your back to the fire, your blood will dry up!!!!'

 

[Gordon Booth]

I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Greenteeth



There's the connection with water, claytonx, I don't remember that.
Just 'Owd Jenny Greenteeth
Cumin wi a knife'.

 

[egg&chips]

Jenny Greenteeth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



There's the connection with water, claytonx, I don't remember that.
Just 'Owd Jenny Greenteeth
Cumin wi a knife'.

I was told that Jinny Greenteeth lived in the lodge behind Bullough's yard. Antley lodge? so can associate with the water connection thing

 

[claytonx]

Jenny Greenteeth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



There's the connection with water, claytonx, I don't remember that.
Just 'Owd Jenny Greenteeth
Cumin wi a knife'.

Thanks Gordon, very interesting to realise that it has been passed down through the years to frighten children away from deep water. I now remember my mother saying it to me when I think back. I have been corrected though by the one who knows these things, one who cannot be challenged (my wife) that we told our children that it was Johnny Greenteeth not Jenny possible because they were all girls. In the end which name it was it served its purpose and kept them safe.
Found out today that my grandchildren know of him.