Soft Mick.

Yes Kipax it is used in Preston a lot and no its not me and the shoes are still rubbing hehe my mum and dad used the saying a lot mum comes from Glasgow and dad from southamton so its getting about a bit
 
i have just read all these posts again,,and it made me laugh... i wonder what southern's make of it ...arnt we a lot of daft ape eths
 
yes granny claret just for that you can have some mithise and splongies work that one out
my dad used to say it to me hehe ?
 
stanaccrington said:
It might have something to do with Paddys but dont quote me heres another though I think its Ossy only but would love to be told yes or no " agate this" or she's agate........ anyone?
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'agate' is very Accy. In fact my sister in Sydney(much to my amusment) still uses the word. Soft mick has been around the traps as far as I can remember since I was a kid. Don't know its origin though:D
 
Seems like a lot of these sayings have been based on true life people, or happenings in the past, and will be a story behind them. Take nursery rhymes for instance "Ring a Ring a Roses" everyone knows was based on the symptoms for the plague or was it smallpox ?

Maybe our descendants in about a century will be asking the same question here and wondering how sayings came about. Can't just think of any off the top of my head, except seeing as we have a thread about this particular person at the moment maybe they will be quoting. Been for a Hugh Grant. Sorry, maybe that should really be in the 18's :eek: Anyway, is fun speculating future sayings from characters of today.
 
Agate was used in Preston. These mithies and splonges must have been something posh.
I had never heard of them till I met mick and still don't know what they are or what it means.
I had forgotton all about that. Not heard Mick use that term for absalutly yonks.
 
I must say that this thread has had me giggling away with fond memories. will have to have a rite good think bout wot to put next
 
Cheers yerself.:)

Liked this as well on the same site.


Window licker - A name for the sort of nutter who sits next to you on the bus and does something weird.
 
Hi

I haven't even gone to the introduce yourself page yet, I was so eager to join in this thread as I find it so fascinating! Reading all your posts made lots of memories come flooding back!

My Nan would shout and say "Come here at once Lady Jane (hence username lol!) - if I was naughty or being cheeky. I'm not even called Jane!

She would also say "Don't just stand there like one of Lewis's" if I was standing around not knowing what to do, or not "shaping myself"!!

She also used to call the bread bin a "bread mug". She called a slice of bread a "round" of bread.

She also taught us to say "Does your Mother take in washing?" whilst touching our chin with our fingers. This was apparently used if you had a new ring on your finger and you wanted to show it off!!

Also..."You shape like my Aunt Fanny" - if I was struggling to do something like fold the washing.

Also...She used to talk about "Fred Fernackerpan" (sp?) dunno who he was!

If someone was on the large side she would say they looked like "Ten Tonne Tesse"!

"Do you live in a barn? Well put t'wood in t'hole!"

I vaguely remember Shanksey's Pony.

I was born in Manchester. My Nan and all my family come from Manchester. I lived in Blackpool for over 20 years and heard some of the above whilst living there. Definitely heard of Soft Mick in both towns! When I moved to Burnley I went into Oddies and asked for a cheese and onion barm cake. The girl looked at me as if I was simple. She said "do you mean a tea cake?" and I thought ugh no way, not with cheese and onion. Tea cakes here are bread rolls but to me they have currants in! Also people in Burnley say "trimming up" for Christmas which I had never heard of. The best is "agate". It still baffles me when I hear people say it! Oh and window bottom. I know it as a window sill!

I was always going to the foot of our stairs too! If I asked the whereabouts of someone I would get "she ran off with a black man". Also I can remember being very young and falling asleep on Nan's knee. She would watch me rub my eyes and say "I think the sandman's coming, time for bo-boes!"

Oh I could go on forever! Thanks for the memories lol!!
 
How about "there and back again to see how far it is"? Or "layohs (?) for meddlers" and finally when as a child i once asked my dad where my mum was " she's run off wi a black chap came the bizarre reply. And aint it funny it weren't bizarre then, n how kids just accept (at a certain age) that if your mum or dad tell you owt its right!
 
'Same to you with knobs on' ?? 'Knobs?' ..:p May you suffer a similar fate, only worse. Not the last poster, just another saying :D
 
here,s a few more for you........

"Thaz a face like a line a wet weshin"........... Stop sulking

"Sawreetferthee"............. It is all right for you
"Standin theer leyke cheese at fourpence"................ Hanging around - Having nothing better to do.

or Dad in his allotment yelling out ......"fetch degging can"

"Stondin theer like one a' Burtons dummies" ....description of an idle person

"Tha's bin aytin vinnigger offa knife" .....- a response to a sharp phrase or scolding remark

"Tha's no oyl in thi' lamp" ..........said to a 'fool'

"Thick enough t'chowk a donkey" .....A reference to a wad of notes in a rich mans wallet.
 
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Being a cat lover .. always had pictures in my head of someone in the middle of a room holding this cat with its tail and swinging around in a circle to test the space .. in other words: 'not enough room to swing a cat' :eek:

Early form of measurement ?
 
My dad used to use the "Making layo'ers for medlars" one, when asked what he was doing. I only found out recently that the medlars in question were the fruit - like a pear - and a layo'er is a fruit net.

I'm still trying to find out who Tommy Berry was. This was one of dad's favourite expressions if someone was having a tantrum or acting manic. "Having a Tommy Berry do" was what he called it. I never heard anyone else say it.
 
LadyJane said:
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e. She said "do you mean a tea cake?" and I thought ugh no way, not with cheese and onion. Tea cakes here are bread rolls but to me they have currants in!
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Strange you should just mention that Lady Jane, I worked in Man. for over 16 years and always had trouble ordering a tea cake with chicken and salad.

Had a friend from this area here on Friday night. For supper, made bacon butties, said only got tea cakes, of which friend went Ugh !! they have currants in.. no! they don't .. plain .. no currants, wat ya' talkin' about !?!
Then lapsed into long discussion difference between balm cakes/muffins/tea cakes. Manchester just down the road too. :D

Anyway, sticking to thread 'What's that when it's at 'ome ?'
 
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