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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by Eric
On a cold drizzly night at Peel Park with my grandad, watching Stanley blow another one. Grandad takes his pipe out of his mouth and says, "They're lakin' like owd washerwimmin."
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I was reading that, and expected to see...the'r tekin' a lickin'.
Which when you think about it, is a very odd way to say losing.
Even odder when the sports boxing, and he's...tekin' a reet lickin' in t' ring.
 
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