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[CLKD]

I'll swing for you has two meanings: one is that I will take a smack at you or, I will go to the gallows rather than let you get away with it

[jillydoll]

Hahaha Robin...
Remember that one....😃

[jillydoll]

Just remembered my Nan saying

“Worse things happen at sea,” ........you know, when you've just been dumped by your 1st love,! oh, yeah Nan, who cares what happens at SEA!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

[Robin]

Yeah and there's plenty more fish in there jillydoll 

[Hurdity]

I'll swing for you has two meanings: one is that I will take a smack at you or, I will go to the gallows rather than let you get away with it

Since when did it mean the former? Surely it only ever means the latter. The phrase meaning hitting is to take a swing AT someone, not swing FOR them which has always meant hanging - and could mean taking the blame for someone.

Haha I do remember hearing the phrase about knocking someone into the middle of next week - was it on a comedy progamme back in the day?

Hurdity x

[jillydoll]

There certainly was aswell Robin......🤫🤫😂😂

[Joaniepat]

If anyone was playing up my grandmother used to say "you'll send me to Banstead", meaning "you'll drive me mad". There used to be a big mental hospital in Banstead.  OH and I bought a house there in the 1980s, but the hospital had just about closed down as a result of the Care in the Community policy.

JP x

[CLKD]

Which was never going to work  and of course Bedlam was the Mental Hospital often quoted.  Or 'workhouse' ........

[Joaniepat]

Which was never going to work  and of course Bedlam was the Mental Hospital often quoted.  Or 'workhouse' ........

Too true, CLKD. Two prisons were built on the site afterwards. I knew one of the prison warders there and he commented that a lot of the inmates had mental health problems and shouldn't be in prison. So they'd ended up in Banstead anyway but under the wrong regime 

JP x

[CLKD]

  breaks my heart.  It is forgotten than relatives, carers, friends need supporting when someone has a mental illness.  But putting them back to the parents etc. wasn't working, that's why sufferers required professional assistance 

Seeing a new members 'name' which ends in squelch reminds me that this particular word, for me, does what it says on the tin  : we probably have a word thread here somewhere  and when I hear squelch I can smell muddy puddles 

[CLKD]

Here it is 

'squelch' still does it for me 

[jaypo]

Good Scottish word for bored ........... scunnard

[CLKD]

 . ....... how do the Scots pronounce that one then? With a lot of spittle ?

[C.C.]

My mother once referred to my mother in law as a "crepe hanger" and I never knew what she meant by that.  Any ideas?

[CLKD]

Well was it at a 'certain' age?  Crepe being folds of loose skin due to lack of oestrogen?   Here it's known as 'chicken neck'  .  Hanger would mean something to store clothing in a cupboard ........