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Old 09-09-2011, 18:06   #358
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Good word, though I've never heard it said.

We'd say 'Tastes like dish watter', to mean a similar thing.
You are probably much too young to have heard it said G.

It was used by folk of my grans generation.
Maybe Retlaw will enlighten us....not casting aspersions on Retlaw, trying to say he is as old as my grans generation, but he might have heard it said as he was growing up.
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