Soft Mick.

when we were kids if you went home crying you would be told not to be a mard _arse or a skrike_arse ,,stop skrikeing ,,,and if you were being silly you were told to stop lakeing about ..and then there was you pie can ,meaning you daft ha,peth ,,,,,oh now i am rambleing on
 
garinda said:
Lol, l knew a lady who used to say when l visited 'put th'wood in th' oil an' cum n sit thee down.'

Only later did l shut the door. l never did find the oil!
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The "oil" she referred to was the hole in the the wall where the door went. Hole, pronounced in Lancashire dialect as "oil"
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
The term layo'ers for meddlers was used if you asked something you weren't supposed to know about.......Like I would say to my mother 'what's that' and she would say 'it's layo'ers for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks'
'Gedding agate' was to get going and was used extensively by weavers......in 'I am just going to ged agate' to get the looms started up.
The 'there's a nail in't plank' well my grandad used something similar......if you asked him why he was late he used to say 'I've a bone in me leg'.......and I can't shed more light on it than that.
And if you were useless they did say you weren't fit to wrap toffees at 'Toffee' Hodsons.
See what you've started Garinda!
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But where do the sayings come from? That's the interesting question. I know that a "meddler" could be a term for someone who interferes. eg. "You're always "meddlin' in other folks business" but what on earth is a "layo'er"?
 
If I was slow in doing something, I always used to be told to "Shape yourself". Never could work that out!

Anyone ever told they were as much use as a chocolate teapot?
 
JohnW said:
The "oil" she referred to was the hole in the the wall where the door went. Hole, pronounced in Lancashire dialect as "oil"
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'Shut yer cake oil John, l wer' only jokin!'

From the fully bilingual Garinda :)
 
garinda said:
'Shut yer cake oil John, l wer' only jokin!'

From the fully bilingual Garinda :)
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Sorry Garinda, I'm getting old and a little slow on the uptake sometimes.:(

I've getten no oil i' mi lamp.
 
Oi, you two, either git a room or put th'wood in th'oil, l'm only a young 'un, n l'm startin t' go colour of a turkey cock!
 
Said at the beginning of the evening to a novice drinker -

"Get that down yer, lad, tha'll feel better for it"

At the end of the evening -

"Bring it up, lad, tha'll feel better for it!"
 
pendy said:
Said at the beginning of the evening to a novice drinker -

"Get that down yer, lad, tha'll feel better for it"

At the end of the evening -

"Bring it up, lad, tha'll feel better for it!"
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Now that I remember well.......................:o
 
pendy said:
Said at the beginning of the evening to a novice drinker -

"Get that down yer, lad, tha'll feel better for it"

At the end of the evening -

"Bring it up, lad, tha'll feel better for it!"
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Oh booze, l think l need to see a shrink!
 
Never heard of skenning emma, but I have heard of '' she skenned like a basket of whelps''.

And also when you had mucky ears as a kid they used to say ''she is growing spuds in there''.
 
slinky said:
Never heard of skenning emma, but I have heard of '' she skenned like a basket of whelps''.

And also when you had mucky ears as a kid they used to say ''she is growing spuds in there''.
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also if you had holes in your socks ,you were said to have spuds in them .or they were more holey than godly ,

skenning emma was said rather than bloody hell ,,she must have been one poor little kid ,(did you ever see those horrible clinic glasses with jam jar bottoms)
we said skenned like a basket of whelks,dont know if thats the same ,,
 
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