Elaine wrote:I love the old expressions, which are sadly dying out now. We should start a new topic about them...anyone care to start it off?
Ever one for a challenge, here goes.
A couple of Welsh ones to start us off (well you know me!):
Mae'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn - It's raining old women and sticks
Bwrw haul - Raining sun (sun and showers)
Some more personal ones from my childhood:
My uncle Bob - a true Lancashire farmer - was wont to refer to anyone he didn't approve of as "Yon gobbin". Another expression was "Oo sed oo wodna but oo dud" - "He did what he said he wouldn't do" (a characteristic of a "gobbin").
Uncle Bob ate seven meals a day; the ones between breakfast and dinner and dinner and tea were, respectively, mornin baggin and afternoon baggin.
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