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I think it's originally a Devon/Somerset way phrase, my missus says it all the time so Dorset would make sense - bet he was called one while he was down there
Funny/local sayings
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My family in Devon say grockles tooI think it's originally a Devon/Somerset way phrase, my missus says it all the time so Dorset would make sense - bet he was called one while he was down there
And a tourist tat shop in a seaside town / near a place of interest is a grockle shop My dad used to say it as well and he was Yorkshire born and bred.
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When my sister-in-law went to college in Worcester she met a wonderful young lady from the West Midlands who was totally confused when my sister-in-law said 'she'd do it again' meaning she didn't have time and she'll do it later. But you haven't done it in the first place yet she'd say.
One of my favourites, "is that he/she is 3 brain cells short of a pair."
One I stole of Judge Judy, "if I added your IQs together I still wouldn't reach double digits."
My stepfather would regularilly tell us "we were either in or we were out, when we kept popping in for drinks."
"Doesn't know his aris from his elbow"
One I stole of Judge Judy, "if I added your IQs together I still wouldn't reach double digits."
My stepfather would regularilly tell us "we were either in or we were out, when we kept popping in for drinks."
"Doesn't know his aris from his elbow"
"2 more brain cells and they could be a daffodil."
I was thinking about this when I was very busy going from one room to another and back again. I was 'in and out like a dog at a fair'. That came from my mother. I also commented 'Fizzing Nora' about the amount of work I had to do and my colleague said she had never hear that. I comes from a silly radio play set inside the Trojan Horse and covers everything from awe to proper swearing!
I've just helped a teacher to find something that he couldn't see, which was actually in plain sight. 'If it was a dog it'd bite you' I told him.
My dad used to say that too. A Liverpudlian born and bred.
Purple Cat
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Teachers and kids mither me all the time
My Mum uses that phrase to mean someone who can't keep still like "ants in their pants".
Oh yes, I used to get this all the time. I was born oop north but moved down south as a toddler and was always being told not to be so nesh when I complained of the cold!Just remembered another one....
"Are you nesh?"......meaning "do you feel the cold?"
Definitely not just your family! My mum and sister are constantly doing it.
I've heard this quite a lot ( London)
Maybe my family caught it from another part of the country then, either that or just wanting to censor themselves around children leads you to saying it
My mum's expression for somebody who couldn't keep still was 'They're like a worm in a bucket of spit'.