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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.

You wanted a topic for this Elaine, so here we go.

It will either rain or get dark.

If someone was being a bit of a pig in old Jersey / French, they were a
colimochon !

Oh blow it, iv'e just now seen Alan has already started a topic on this.

Maybe the powers that be can remove this one.

Hi OH

Beat you to it

You should still have time to delete your posts (I think )

The trouble is, i'm so eager to please.

I have tried deleting, but to no avail.

Go fetch me the big hammer, boy.

First Winter at university I went into a lecture one morning and said "It's a bit thin today", student next to me looked round and said "there aren't many here are there".

I've had some funny/blank looks from folks when I've mentioned that I'm ;-
nithered (cold)
mafted (hot)
narked ( annoyed)
Blutherin' and kitin'(g) weeping and wailing

Or that someone is like two yards of pump watter (tall and thin)
Or that someone can eat two taties more than a pig (greedy)
Younger folks don't grasp the meaning of "ha'penny off a bob" either!

Elaine wrote:Younger folks don't grasp the meaning of "ha'penny off a bob"

Hi Elaine

I presume that means the same as "Not the full shilling" or "A sandwich short of a picnic".

Hi Alan,
One saying I really like is "measure twice cut once!"
JB.

Spot on Alan!

It's usually folk that were born prior to decimalisation...they have no idea what ha'pennies or bobs are.

Hi Elaine,
What about Tiddlers and Florins and Tanners!
JB

or threepenny bit?

glallotments wrote:or threepenny bit?

...not forgetting its precursor



a Joey

or



Two and a kick or Half a dollar