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Gooin right round the Wrekin = taking too long to do something


Taking Effies piece = taking too larger a share, after Aunt Effie who did that very thing with cake


You'll be killed to djeth = the danger of doing something dangerous


That wo get the babbie bathed = obvious really


Stuffed as a tunkey pig = full


I could eat a scabbie 'oss = hungry


We 'ad a bostin' time = we had a good time


Its bost = its broken


Stop yaour blartin' = stop crying


Am yow courtin' that wench? = are you stepping out with that young lady?


Aright Chick? = How are you? (female said to male, often Barmaid to punter shortly before serving a point of the moild)


The Bogey 'ole = The understairs storage facility

rememberwhen Wrote:

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> As a kid, when asking my mother or gran where

> something missing might be, I was always told the

> same thing

>

>

> It's up in Annie's room, behind the clock!

>

> We lived in a bungalow and didn't know an Annie.



I was always told that "it's up Ben's hole on the second shelf"


I sometimes repeat to my son and then wonder why I get a blank look from him.


Oh, another one was " It's cold enough for a walking stick" er, what?

A) Where is it? B) Up my arse on a hook/nail.

A) What's for dinner? B) Shit with sugar on.

A) What's that? B) Don't know - the label fell off.


'Paper bag' was also an oft-repeated phrase, used to denote stupidity. It must have been the catchphrase of a joke or referring to an incident I never asked about.


Stop skriking! (crying)

Mard arse! (softy)

for some reason (I've no idea why) when someone said something rather smug and clever dick-ish (and they were right too)

the retort would be (to a man or man)


"True oh Queen"...


think it comes from Midsummer Night's Dream... someone speaking to Titania???... but not sure


http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Cowper.Titania.jpg

(from my scottish Grandmother to my mum)


"Are you sure you're not passing by the bunnets for the hats"

(translation - are you sure you aren't letting perfectly nice, humble chaps slip through your fingers becuase you're holding out for a rich toff.) I presume a bunnet is a flat cap/beannie?

My family had a particular saying which I heard every day of my childhood


"Give it to me straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pear"


They used it all the time. So I was really gutted to find out that Magners had just stolen it for a recent ad campaign

if anyone cried ha ha - Aunt Vi would follow it with Ha Ha she cried waving her wooden leg in the fog!

Whats to eat - Bread and Pullit.

Of a talkative person - she is all mouth and no trousers ( I used to mishear this and thought it was a person called Martha Trousers. Generally it was said of a certain mother of 4 sons and my family thought it hilarious that I thought her name was Martha)

Girls were told in the 1950s/60s not to wear patent shoes as people could see their knickers reflected in them!!

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> My family had a particular saying which I heard

> every day of my childhood

>

> "Give it to me straight, like a pear cider made

> from 100% pear"

>

> They used it all the time. So I was really gutted

> to find out that Magners had just stolen it for a

> recent ad campaign



Oi, MacGabhann - you nicked that off MY family - no, wait...

I'm ashamed to say that I use the "do you want me to give you something to cry for?" with my own kids after having been told the same thing by my mum.


My mum used to call the gunky sleep in your eyes, "goggies" which I've never heard anywhere but in my family!


When my kids would ask me for a drink or something when we were on the bus or nowhere near shops, I would always retort. "wait a minute, I'll just pull one out me arse!" which was something my old dad used to say.


If my kids say "I want ..." I'd reply "yes and I want a big house and a Range Rover" which is a variation on my mother's pearls of wisdom!


She also did the whole, "those that ask don't get" thing, but wouldn't give if we didn't ask either!


"Better out than in" - my dad's view on farts.

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