Funny/local sayings

[Technician Q]

Round here they call buggies/strollers trollies. Which I learnt when someone shouted “there’s a trolley in the pond” at the park and I just calmly remarked something like “oh dear I hope they fish it out” instead of being worried if it was occupied. (It wasn’t!)

 

[Purple Cat]

Tight as a fishes a***.

 

[Emma R]

Or as my previous manager used to say "as rare as rocking horse teeth" . We then figured out that he'd mixed up hen's teeth and rocking horse sh1t

Along the mixing up sayings: "Does the pope sh*t in the woods" is a favourite of my partners (I think learnt from his grandad)

 

[Lisa J]

No better than she ought to be.
And - what's for dinner?
Bread and duck.
(Bread and duck under the table)

Ha ha my husbands family say no better than she ought to be - had forgotten that one!!

 

[Fallout_Girl]

I have no idea what half of you are talking about!

 

[TDM]

Apart from the first one Sooooo my mother!!!!
And what is stagey bank fair?

It was a fair held at Stagshaw near Hexham back in the early 1900's. Three days and nights of drunk revelry

My nana often mentioned Paddy's Market - she was born and lived her entire life a stones throw from Newcastle quayside, and would say you could often see fleas jumping up from the piles of clothing.

It's interesting to find out where some of the sayings came from.

 

[labtech666]

When I was a child if I started a sentence with 'I wish...', my dad would reply 'If wishes were ponies, beggars would ride'

 

[Puds]

"As rare as rocking-horse sh1t"

Oh similar, my Dad used to say someone had, " The brains of a Rocking Horse"

 

[Puds]

"Will y'ekers like!" (Not a chance)

There was a comedy sketch with a character called Willie Eckerslike, used to say something like, " I say what I mean & I mean what I say" then go on to talk about how he lived in a paper bag growing up etc.

 

[Smiff12]

Some of these are hilarious. Some are reminding me of my Mum. If she was going out without us and we asked where she was going, she used to say " to run after one and catch two" Eh??? Never did get that one. Or if someone had an old banger of a car she'd say " a rough ride is better than a handsome walk"
One I have definitely never got, and I use it myself if there is a lot of something " We've got enough to cobble dogs with" Hmmm....

 

[CovTech]

" to run after one and catch two" Eh??? Never did get that one.

Think it's the inverse of "try to catch two and both will get away"
Like I'm going out to do one thing but will get lots more done as well

One I have definitely never got, and I use it myself if there is a lot of something " We've got enough to cobble dogs with" Hmmm....

That one I know - it's to do with having loads left over so you could do something needless with them
i.e. after cobbling the street they had so many stones left over they could cobble the dogs as well

 

[Smiff12]

Think it's the inverse of "try to catch two and both will get away"
Like I'm going out to do one thing but will get lots more done as well


That one I know - it's to do with having loads left over so you could do something needless with them
i.e. after cobbling the street they had so many stones left over they could cobble the dogs as well

Thank you!! I've used that saying for so long without thinking about it's meaning!

 

[KateA]

My dad always calls someone indecisive "a fart in a colander" meaning they can't decide which hole to go through! Only he does it in a broad Cornish accent. My husband calls a packed lunch "crib"

 

[CrowyTech]

My dad always calls someone indecisive "a fart in a colander" meaning they can't decide which hole to go through! Only he does it in a broad Cornish accent. My husband calls a packed lunch "crib"

I need to start using this one!

 

[TDM]

Another often said hereabouts is ' I'll be coming by shanks pony.'
In the town here they have a load of odd sayings I'd never heard of... one being, 'Charity' - which basically means it serves you right.

 

[Puds]

This reminds me of starting a sentence with " I want..." and being told "I want, never gets"

I was always told this, along with " Askers don't get"
But then I'd get confused at school as teachers would say, " If you DON'T ask you don't get"

 

[Helen Jones]

Daft as Dick's hat band, the lot of us

 

[Kerry]

My Grandma used to say in response to 'it's not fair!!!' - 'not until Easter'. Also 'I see, said the blind man.... who could not see at all' I assume for someone who clearly doesn't understand

 

[Puds]

" All there & half way back" for someone clever

 

[Stokes1]

Just remembered another one....

"Are you nesh?"......meaning "do you feel the cold?"