Unusual sayings

Couldn't organise a f....... up in a brothel

Isn't it funny how the sayings adapt and change from place to place?

MissAdventure, we say,

Do you think I came up the Clyde on a banana boat?

In and out like a fiddlers elbow.

A couple of my Daddy's sayings.

There's a good day coming, if it's no' passed...
A Scotsman's attempt at optimism!

There's nae pockets in a shroud ...
Enjoy your money now 'cos you can't take it with you!

He's no' firing on all cylinders...
He's a wee bit under the weather.

I was surprised to find there was actually a Wookey Hole.
It's a really interesting place!
Yes grandmafrench It's Newgates knocker, but it becomes Newgit around these parts.

Do you think I came up in a banana boat?

If he fell out of the Co-Op he'd fall into the divi - meaning someone was lucky or always landed on their feet in life.

MissAdventure

Well, if things don't change they'll stay as they are.

My MIL was always saying that MissAdventure.
And "What's that got to do with the price of eggs?"

'As rough as a badger's backside' is one I heard not long ago.

My boss at work always used to say ‘it’s like Fred Karnos in here.’ Meaning it’s chaotic. (Fred Karnos was a circus apparently so it does kind of make sense!)

Callistemon - thank you, Longfellow it is! The phrase was used (so I have just read) to describe anyone in a 'ruined or dishevelled state'. Well, that's telling us!

As black as Newgate's knocker refers to the door into the prison, doesn't it MissAdventure? And Wookey Hole is a place I know well, so I assume that this means very dark and cavelike! Well it did in our house when Dad would always turn lights out when they were needed.

Well, if things don't change they'll stay as they are.

Well this won't buy the baby a new bonnet! Equals stop chatting and get on with something useful.

As black as newgits knocked was a favourite of my mums, meaning something needed cleaning.
It's like Wookie Hole in here!

I often look as if I've been pulled through a hedge backwards - or like the wreck of the Hesperus, GrandmaFrench.
I think it's a poem by Longfellow as well.

nannarose. I was truly shocked when I realised one day that my Mum and Granddad's San Fairy Ann, was in fact their version of ça ne fait rien, which Granddad has obviously learned in WW1 in France. He also used to point out that something was "kaput" if it needed fixing. A German word.

When asked for something which we couldn't find, Mum would often respond that it was probably "up in Annie's room behind the clock". A family friend had very bandy legs and he was described as someone who "couldn't stop a pig in a passage" and a response to what's for supper, would often be "bread and pullit" or 'pig's bum" (I sometimes make a pudding now called Pig's Bum and always laugh when I think of the childhood remark!) Granddad, if told off by my Gran for using any bad words in front of the children would always respond "well, it's enough to make a Parson swear". Anyone a bit slow and not very bright would often be referred to as "dim as a Toc H lamp". As regards "A dying duck in a thunderstorm" - in our house the remark was always aimed at anyone who looked miserable or out of sorts. And if your hair was untidy or windblown, my Mum would say "you look like a besom in a fit" and, for herself, if she wasn't happy with how she looked to go out, she'd say she looked like "Whistler's Mother" or "The Wreck of the Hesperous". Both paintings, but something she wouldn't have known.

I think it's wonderful how some of the sayings that our own Grandparents used have been passed down through the years and well remembered, especially when they are regional ones.

Air pie and kick of the cat was on offer at ours.
Or shit with sugar if mum wasn't in a good mood.

If we asked "What's for dinner? Mum's response was often "Three kicks at the pantry door".

Being told you were going on holiday to Ourgate... actually meant no holiday

Mollygo my mum always said look for a patch of sky "big enough to patch a dutch boy's trousers" to be sure the weather was going to clear.

My dad would say "he'll always go up the down escalator" meaning someone who always did things the hard way.

Like a fish needs a bicycle.

"Go home, your rabbit's dead!".

My OH has used this expression for as long as I've known him.
Apparently, his grandmother used to say it to him as a child when she felt it was time he went home (or he had outstayed his welcome)!

I think it was this plain-speaking Yorkshire woman's slightly more child-friendly way of saying "bugger off now and leave me in peace!"

asked mum 'what's for dinner' she'd say 'bread an' pullit. and something else starting with 'pigs' can't say the rest on here

A work mate used to say-
‘Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm’

I can’t remember in what context it was used unfortunately.

"Tha wants thee bumps feeling" when coming up with a crazy idea in South Yorkshire