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grandtanteJE65 Thu 08-Feb-18 13:36:40

My grandmother said of people who were too busy minding others' business that "their eyes are standing out like chapel hat pegs"

Jane10 Thu 08-Feb-18 13:32:50

Yer bums oot the windae! =your response is inaccurate

farview Thu 08-Feb-18 13:29:40

As a child,if was told I couldn't do/have something..on asking "why" dad would say." because X is not a Y and Y is not a Z!!!???

mcem Thu 08-Feb-18 12:48:55

And bear in mind that 'If you're no' among the craws you'll no' get shot!'
If you don't associate with undesirables you won't end up in trouble!

Christinefrance Thu 08-Feb-18 12:03:12

I have noticed that many of the sayings I heard as a child are no longer in use. I have had blank looks from people when I have used some expressions.
Once in a Sheffield flood - how did that originate
When I moved to Suffolk people said " it's funny raining" or " it's funny sweet" meaning its very sweet or raining heavily.

Granny23 Thu 08-Feb-18 11:50:23

Which translates as 'You are on your final warning'

How about 'the ba's on the slates?

mcem Thu 08-Feb-18 11:39:36

How about 'His/her coat is hinging on a shoogly peg' ?
Would love to think that's where TM's neat little jackets are.

Granny23 Thu 08-Feb-18 11:36:15

The corollary of the positive JTB is the decided 'put down' of 'Ah Kent his Faither' applied to anyone who is perceived to be getting above themselves.

shandi6570 Thu 08-Feb-18 11:32:43

Maybe someone can tell me what my Dad meant when he used to say 'five to play sixes with' if I ever asked him a question he didn't want to answer. It worked as I always walked away puzzling about the phrase and for some reason never asked him to explain.

Elegran Thu 08-Feb-18 11:21:15

"We're all Jock Tamson's bairns" means "We are all relations, all the same" or that none of us is any better or any worse than any other, and we should all stick together. Could be because Tamson means the son of Tam, and the whole village would know Jock and Tam and their forebears, so they wouldn't be able to put on any airs.

How about "What's for you won't go by you." ?

Elizabeth1 Thu 08-Feb-18 11:09:02

Let’s have fun
Who knows what Jock Tamsons bairns mean? Please then add an idiom a phrase or a proverb of your own.