What do I have to do to get the negatives? Oh god! I bet you're digital. I'm done for now...

Think we best hand this thread back to them that started it!!

Righto...

LOL at Steven's Nottingham phrases, esp "Code innit".

From down the road in Derby:

"I'll gorr tet topov arr stairs"
"E's gorra right baggon"



dm

"I've got an itch on my bum - butter's going to be cheap"

My gran, Exeter - so Devonshire phrase I think...

* a weird and wonderful zoo of phrases here!

nikki

E's gorra right baggon?

He's in a mood/ huff/ got a right cob on?

miffle

My Dad used to say "Over the Counter" as a reference to getting involved in a problem personally. In so much that you jump over the counter of the shop to punch the shopkeeper for bad service.

On the ugly face debate, Tony Parson's description of an angry man having a face like a Big Mac in beer
is quite inventive

'Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp' is not half bad either.... or face like a bucket of spanners. (No, it doesn't make any sense to me either.) Mouth like a cat's arse is good, because you know exactly what it means straight away. (if you've ever seen a cat walk disdainfully away from you with its tail in the air.) Are these proving useful, Sue? they're good characterisation starting points, come to think of it...

lol - that reminded me of Roald Dahl's description of the grandmother in "George's Marvellous Medicine". It was something like "mouth puckered up like a dog's bottom" wasn't it?
Must be 16 years or so since I read that, but it stays with me. So yes, great character definition.

Over the brush is a Yorkshire phrase meaning living together. I believe it originates from an old Beltane custom. Two bonfires would be lit, a broomstick would be laid on the ground between them, and couples wanting to ‘marry’ would jump over the broomstick, hand-in-hand.

Kinda quaint, dontcha think?

ee.

didn't the beltane marriages only last for that night? much better really. if it doesn't work out, then onto the next. and you have until the following may to find one!

I were in Tesco's this morning (it's an exciting life, i'nt it?) and woman at checkout starts talking 'bout t'night's lottery.
She told me she 'ad 'er ticket and wanted t' win - with it being rollov'r, 'n all - but that

'Nelson had more chance of getting his eye back'.

I heard that and thought of WW!

Strange people you meet in Essex!

Jumbo

John! Nelson's eye! I love this... I just love it. Reminds me of when I first came to Yorkshire and heard all the (to me) new and wonderful coloquialisms:

since god were a lad
and
since the last flood

being two of them...

ee.
x

This is a good thread.

I've heard a few variations on Ralphs low flying duck

I'm so hungry:

I'd eat the balls off a low flying emu
I'd eat a farmers arse through a hedge
I'd eat a nuns arse through the convent gates.

Yum!

Another one of my favourites is: You can't get trousers of a bare arse, meaning you can only pay what you have.

Finally, refering to someone who fell out of the aforementioned tree...

I wouldn't get up on her to get over a wall
A bear wouldn't hug her
The tide wouldn't take her out.

All quite disparaging but very funny, I think.

Peter








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P.s. I loved As Hard as a goat's knee and Mad as a chair even if it is a mispronunciation of the March hare saying.

LOL
The balls off a low flying emu? I don't know if that's even physically possible, but I think it's hilarious...