Kitchen Table Lingo - The English Project and other phrases?

MamaCaz

In our family, if one of the dgc breaks wind, it's usually known as a bang-botty.
This has come via my dil's family, because one of her sisters once said it when little, and it stuck

Botty Burps named by our little GC

Tom and Dick for sick in our family - I couldn't understand why my teacher didn't understand what it meant when I felt ill in class as a 5 year old! Also "jollop" for medicine, "the quack" for the doctor and, for some reason "San fairy ann" instead of what today would be "No problem"

Trisha57 San fairy Ann comes from the French "Ca ne faire rien" (hope that's right) allegedly brought home from WW1 by soldiers. My grandfather also used "Ferme le port" for shut the door.

We have a "washing it clean" in the utility room, so named by my then 2 Yr old granddaughter who misheard washing machine.

If mother thought someone wasn't being honest he was "as fly as a box of monkeys".
Asked where he was going Dad used to say "to the back of beyond where they clog ducks".

Arriving at work looking a bit windswept, a young man in the office commented about it being a bit breezy out. "The car's in for a service and then it's MOT," I explained, adding, "so I came on Shanks' Pony." He looked perplexed and replied, "WTF is Shanks' Pony?" I turned to an older member of staff and asked her. "Walking," she replied. "None the wiser," said the young fellow. "Google it," I told him, adding, you know what Google is.

Five minutes later he shouts over, "the shank is the bottom half of your leg." "You got there," I said.

Today, when my DH wandered off leaving me looking for him (yet again) I remonstrated that he had left me standing there "like piffy on a rock bun". Where on earth does that come from??!

Yorkshire.? I love these sayings.
I'm going to try and include one in real life conversations at least once a week.

My uncle in his mid-80’s always calls children ‘nippers’. They live in Oldham. Makes me smile every time!
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When I was little I remember grandparents referring to the floor as the dog shelf.

Also little children being called mardy bums if they whined on and on or cried for no reason. If it was an annoying adult they would have been called a mardy arse.

Short arms and deep pockets for anyone who avoided paying their share.

A rasher of wind is what my nan called someone slim, but too slim and she'd say "That ain't a 'uman bean, it's a 'uman pullthrough".

My mum, bemoaning her fine hair, used to say she’d seen ‘better on bacon’.

Trisher. Ah, now that makes sense! Thank you for explaining

You're welcom Trisha57 My mum explained it to me when I was quite little- I think I must have been asking questions about the fairy. I was awfully keen on knowing every detail and think I must have been asking about the "San Fairy" called Anne and she cracked and told me.

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking was a nan one, too.

When we had to be got ready in a hurry and needed a wash we were given "a lick and a promise" never understood that one.

As well as many that have already been posted, phrases I remember include:
'S/he hangs around like a smell on a landing'
'You couldn't knock him/her back with a shovel'
'This won't get the baby a new bonnet' (when people were sitting drinking tea or something - being unproductive, at any rate).

The baby bonnet one was said by my mum, and the lick and promise.
2 shakes of a cows tail, anyone?

I moved to Lancashire from Oxford when I was 6 and coukdn't I understand what was meant when other children asked me me where I had flitted from.

I saw earlier someone say the phrase Mardy Bum.

I think there is a song with that title.

“Don’t use Gooblegook”. Translation, use words the rest of humanity can understand! ?

When someone had a new hat or outfit it was called a "bobby dazzler". It was sometimes used about someone who was dressed up for a special occasion- "She's a right bobby dazzler". Where on earth that came from I don't know.

Three kicks at the pantry door was the answer to "what's for dinner?"

trisher the only person I've heard use that expression is the antiques man.
David Dickinson?

It's a reall Bobby dazzler
And it was cheap as chips

In Hull the space between houses or at the back was called 'the ten foot' also an alleyway was a snicket.
When trying to get the children to do something properly it was ' will you frame '

Love these sayings and remember many of them,

I am a West Yorkshire lass and remember all the sayings mentioned.
My Grandma used to read the 'hatchems', 'catchems' and 'snatchems' in the local paper.