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grumpy2008
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
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May 16, 2009, 01:24:10 PM »
Oooh yuk, I'll think twice before saying 'nitty gritty' again....
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Taz2
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May 16, 2009, 01:25:28 PM »
It's amazing how many people use it all the time as it is part of our language somehow. Interesting to know where it originated though.
Taz x
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tiilycat
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May 16, 2009, 01:34:10 PM »
Well i"ll go t foot of our stairs, meaning i dont believe it, all my older relatives used to say that.
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grumpy2008
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May 16, 2009, 01:39:16 PM »
How about the word 'nesh', meaning to feel unusually cold?
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Taz2
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May 16, 2009, 01:44:15 PM »
Thats a northern one isn't it. I had a friend from Sheffield who always said "It's reet nesh out there" reading here
http://www.thepotteries.org/dialect_qa.html
it seems to come from the anglo saxon word nescenes
Taz x
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Elyse
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May 16, 2009, 02:02:24 PM »
I've not heard of nesh ! I'm in Tyneside. Geordies probably have a catalogue of our own !
If your feet itch - you are about to go somewhere you've not been before.
If your ears itch, someone is talking about you, left for love, right for spite.
If your palm itches - left to pay out, right to receive.
Drop a knife, a man will come to the house, a spoon - a child, a fork - a woman.
I know these are more like superstitions but I wonder if they are the same through the whole of the UK ?
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Elyse
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May 16, 2009, 02:08:36 PM »
If someone sat in front of a fire, blocking the heat from other people, my uncle used to say "ye'd make a good bleezer" I assume this translates as blazier - an old fashioned fire screen.
It's 'nithering' - very cold.
'Skitey' meaning slippery or icy underfoot.
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Pennyfarthing
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May 16, 2009, 02:38:25 PM »
Several years ago I heard someone describing a very sourfaced, miserable woman ... "she looks like she could p**s vinegar".
That's my all time favourite, because it described her perfectly!
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Cazikins
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May 16, 2009, 02:42:27 PM »
Looks like a bulldog has swallowd a wasp.
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tiilycat
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May 16, 2009, 03:35:52 PM »
My grandad used to say "i"ll sithey", meaning see you later, i love that saying, every time i think of him, i can see him saying that to me as i was leaving. Tilly. x
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Elyse
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May 16, 2009, 06:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Cazikins on May 16, 2009, 02:42:27 PM
Looks like a bulldog has swallowd a wasp.
My friend used to say "bulldog chewing a wasp"
and if someone wasn't keen on what they'd heard, "well, that went down like a cup of cold sick", sorry !
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CLKD
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May 16, 2009, 08:23:12 PM »
went down like a lead balloon
as much use as a chocolate fire guard/teapot - love those!
Simon [who returned from the Falklands whose surname I forget
]once said in an interview that "MY Mam makes toast with her breath" ..........
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Elyse
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May 16, 2009, 10:02:14 PM »
My fave -
"I might be daft, but I'm not stupid"
my friend at work used to say that.
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Taz2
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May 16, 2009, 11:32:56 PM »
I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking
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CLKD
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May 17, 2009, 06:32:40 PM »
Daft as well as stupid - usually we shout this at drivers who don't obey the Rules
I thoguht of another right then and now it's gone
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