Old local expressions

[jaysay]

One of my favourits thas more mouth than Plymouth

[jaysay]

I kind of like the saying Jack Duckworth on corry used to say Vera, all reight mi aud swamp duck

[garinda]

Fancy piece/fella - illicit lover.

'Sat yon', as bold as brass, wi' 'er fancy fella.'

[jaysay]

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

[Margaret Pilkington]

Picking your nose......my dad would say...'don't tek th pictures deawn, wer nod flittin'....another one was 'gi'oe'r movin th funitur'...or 'I'll swap you a green un fer a black un'.
My, didn't we have colourful (and cultured) lives?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

Or of a tartily made up woman...'eeh, it's poor soil that needs a lot o' top dressing'.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Or of a tartily made up woman...'eeh, it's poor soil that needs a lot o' top dressing'.

Or Mutton dressed as Lamb

[Eric]

Originally Posted by jaysay

When I was serving my time one of the joiners had this very gerrish cardy on we used to call it his Gansey Shroud

Didn't know you'd done time, bud

[Eric]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

I remember an early episode of Coronation St. in which Elsie Tanner was about to be evicted. Ena Sharples said something to the effect that Elsie would be allowed to keep her bed and the tools of her trade, which in her case would be the same thing. Funny what sticks in your head, eh.

I also remember the phrase "living over the brush" ...

[mobertol]

When I was little and skinny my grandad used to tell me he'd seen more meat on a butcher's pencil!

[walkinman221]

Thas shappin like a one legged man at a shin kickin contest.

[Eric]

Where there's muck, there's brass .... if owt's worth doin', it's worth doin' well.

The first one reminds me of Basil Brierly ... those who knew the Village Blacksmith, and the Bottom Club in Clayton will know who I mean.

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by Eric

Where there's muck, there's brass .... if owt's worth doin', it's worth doin' well.

The first one reminds me of Basil Brierly ... those who knew the Village Blacksmith, and the Bottom Club in Clayton will know who I mean.

allways a lot of muck down the bottom end of Clayton, though not as much as at Rishton

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Eric

Didn't know you'd done time, bud

I haven't

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by walkinman221

Thas shappin like a one legged man at a shin kickin contest.

I use a more graphical term than that WM