We used to say:

Tiggypiro It sounds like the Scots "whisht" or "wheesht" which means "hush".

Six pennyworth of chips and some scratchings please!

(i.e. Scraps of batter bits - they were free!

My Granny (County Durham) used to say ''Do as you would be done by'' and when we were arguing ''Be wished now'' or it could have been ''Bewitched now''. I never was sure ! Anyone know ?

Do Scots still say, 'Awa and boil yer heid'?

Just remembered ''put that in your pipe and smoke it!''

'Wotcher!' (Hi, hallo!)

"Think you're bodyeveryself just cos you used to was. Who do ya think you are I don't suppose?" As my Lancashire friend used to say as a child.

My dad used to say if we said anything particularly bright, '' oh, have you been sleeping with the knives?''

We had a couple of Leicestershire ones

He's half sharp

That's ruptured the duck

Well, it is a nice quick way of saying 'Fish and Chip Shop', isn't it?

Yorkshireish was always succinct. According to a book I read 'Teach thissen Tyke' the world's fastest business transactions are carried out in Yorkshire. For instance, the sales rep sticks his head round the door of the buyers office and asks 'Owt?'. The buyer replies 'Nowt' and the rep departs, saying 'Tarrar'. Three words. In other places the same transaction would involve lots of dialogue and perhaps a business lunch.

Joan my mum worked in a chip oil when I was a child. She always referred to it that way.

and 'Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs'

My head's in a shed (muddled mind)

Thinks his body every self cos his mother's got a mangle

Sunday go to meeting clothes

The last two were favourites of my late MIL

My dad has a bone in his leg too . Also my granny used to call sprouts dolly cabbages. It was only quite recently the meaning dawned on me. As a child I thought they were just called that.

More Yorkshire ones (Holmfirth), that my grandma used regularly:

Ee, you're a rum 'un!

Ee, you're a tonic!

Ee, you're a cough drop!

Ee, I'll to our house!

Ee, I'll go t' bottom of our stairs!

(Yes, she did a lot of 'ee-ing' )

He's nobbut a chip 'oiler.

I suppose it's really Yorkshire dialect, but it refers to a cyclist who is 'Nothing but a person who is only capable of riding his bike to the fish and chip shop', ie not a proper cyclist.

Chip 'oil had nothing to do with what the chips were fried in - that was usually animal fat, but in dialect, any place where work was done, was a 'hole' or 'oil' in dialect. My Dad, a foreman spinner for instance, ran the 'spinning 'oil'.

Have we had 'living ovver't (over the) brush' for living in sin yet?

You've all brought back memories of how our Mums tried to keep us little virgins till marriage. All most parents achieved, was to successfully teach us how to be devious!!

One lass of my acquaintance managed the virginity thing - and ended up celibate for 11 years until she finally broke down and sought help - her husband was impotent. The anti-sex brainwashing had been so intense, that she probably felt she would look bad for complaining she wasn't getting any.

Which brings us to another saying - 'never buy a pig in a poke' ie check the goods before you commit. That poor lass should have!

My Dad used to say 'I can't, I've got a bone in my leg' . I can remember, like a light going on, when I realised we'd ALL got bones in our legs.

Nightowl - yes we used to say 'with it' - sounds funny now. My mom used to say 'are you going out like that' and I'd say 'yes it's with it'. She would say 'I think I'd rather be without it'.

Didn't we used to say something was 'with it' meaning fashionable?

When, as a child, I used to ask my grandmother to do something for me which involved her getting up out of her chair, she would say 'I can't I've got a bone in my leg'.

In my head I am still a groovy 20-something!

Yes, annodomini, not groovy at all

My grandmother used to say 'Well I'll go to the top of our street'

Half a century, Broomstick! Doesn't that sound depressing?

Oh yes, I remember some of those and 'sends me' for that matter. It seems like words from the distant mists of time. I suppose it was

I seem to remember 'groovy'!