There's a Jock for every Ginny.everyones got a partner Lockerbie Jocks ......Scotsmen Eliphano said when someone did not know the answer DH thought it was an animal Hod thee wished please be quiet They didn't know if the were coming or gaan[going] We also still knock our lights out instead of switching them off. Pidgeon toed and splay footed Biddie a hair louse
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick You'll have someone's eye out with that (carrying ladders or similar) Who's she, the cat's Mother? ( I shouted that at Johnson at PMQs) It's like bloody Blackpool in here! (lights left on) As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat a scotch egg short of a picnic
DD had to explain some of DGS expressions to some of his school teachers. He is in a French speaking school and some of the teachers speak English and did not have a clue what he was talking about. DGS is fully bilingual, and some of the Scottish phrases we use confused them. We just hope he was not using the slang ones he has picked up.
I think I was about 35 (and my gran was long gone) before I realised that 'apeth' was a half penny worth. Maybe it was around the time I started calling my 5yr old these daft names!
Let the dog see the rabbit. It’s like Stage-a-Bank Fair in here. You make a better door than a window. Fit as a butcher’s dog. I’ve seen more fat on a greasy chip. One sniff of the barmaid’s apron…. You must have hollow legs (when you eat one tatie more than a pig).
“There’s nowt so queer as folk”. “Well at least those two don’t spoil another couple!” ? “I could eat a scabby horse and come back for the bandages” “He’s got short arms and long pockets”