Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Struck me tonight how we all have some strange and unusual phrases that we unintentionally use without thinking. I guess a lot are just passed down from older relatives. Examples: I quite often say Hells Teeth. I know I got this from my old man but have no idea what it means. I also found myself lowering myself into a hot bath saying "gosh gosh gosh gosh" (at the hot temperature Fist before you get any ideas). WTF Gosh Anyone else have any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 31 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Gosh? Fucking GOSH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 My boss and my mum say "it gets on my tits", which has always struck me as an odd thing to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Gosh? Fucking GOSH? I know I quite often say "my goodness" when I'm cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 My boss and my mum say "it gets on my tits", which has always struck me as an odd thing to say. I think that's a fairly common one up north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 When I worked up at Kielder, the locals would say " the next again day" instead of tomorrow. Sheep botherers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My mother in law has a couple of poultry-themed sayings which I've never heard anyone else use. " White hen's chick never lays away from home" which she uses in he context of 'butter wouldn't melt' and " A hen could eat oats through it" if she sees a 'strumpet' wearing something flimsy or revealing. She has never kept chickens, and is certifiably insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26625 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 There's an old saying round here, 'red sky at night, shepherd's house on fire.' As for 'gets on me tits', that's very common, don't know why Brock thinks its unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26625 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 As for CT, I also say 'oh my goshk', but only when I'm doing a Popeye impression for my kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Wheres the mother in law from Fist?...we used to say "as scarce as hens teeth".... If I was at my folks for more than 2 days the Kielder one may creep back into my vocabulary...."tomorrow morning" is often expressed as "the morn's morn'" by us hillbilly folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 She's from Walker mate. Hen's teeth I've heard before. When I was a chef we'd always get the new lads to put in an order from the butcher for prime chicken lips You Border folk have some strange ones, along with a " quaint" accent, although I'd guess it's one of the few dialects where Old English sayings and phrases can still be heard. Still a bunch of sheep fiends mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Like Billy-o Ive always said it (again not sure why) and my kids have always said "who is Billy-o". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My Nana used to say " Whey ya bugger afloat!" when surprised. Again, insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19743 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 For Pete's sake - who is this Pete person? For Fuck's sake - I know this is said in frustration but why bring sex into it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Alex (or whoever he is today) quite often says "float your boat". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Yours invariably sinks. That's physics for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flap 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Alex (or whoever he is today) quite often says "float your boat". No I don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19743 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Spitting feathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Often say 'haad yer passion' (Hold your passion) in situations when you are in the company of an irritatingly more enthusiastic person than you about something or other. Dunno how common it is with everyone else but I don't hear it that much outside the family - Got it off my fatha' . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16500 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My Gfriends parents are from Derbyshire and they call everyone Duck "Alright Duck, no worries duck, see you tomorrow duck" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38580 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My Gfriends parents are from Derbyshire and they call everyone Duck "Alright Duck, no worries duck, see you tomorrow duck" Are you fucking Quackers then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I've been pulled up for using "netty" more than once....wiki has this to say...v interesting, for me and Jaw D anyway... The Geordie word netty,[61] meaning a toilet and place of need and necessity for relief[61][62][63] or bathroom,[61][62][63] has an uncertain origin,[64] though some have theorised that it may come from slang used by Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall,[65] which may have later become gabinetti in the Romanic Italian language[65] (such as in the Westoe Netty, the subject of a famous painting from Bob Olley[65][66]). However gabbinetto is the Modern Italian diminutive of gabbia, which actually derives from the Latin cavea ("hollow", "cavity", "enclosure"), the root of the loanwords that became the Modern English cave,[1] cage,[2] and gaol.[3] Thus, another explanation would be that it comes from a Modern Romanic Italian form of the word gabinetti,[64] though only a relatively small number of Italians have migrated to the North of England, mostly during the 19th century.[67] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrossthepond 699 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My 92-year-old grandmother from Berwick says, "He/she went up in a blue light and came down in a pink one." Another fun game to play is UK words that mean something else in US english. The three I get pulled up on most often are lush, canny, and tramp. Lush means an alcoholic over here, canny means cunning but in a mean-spirited way, and tramp means a slut, almost exclusively female (the homeless are called bums over here, or hobos.) You can play the game backwards too, "fanny" being the most egregious offender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 My lass still frowns at me saying 'well bugger me sideways' if I hear something that's reasonably surprising. Like realising Kirsten Dunst was in Jumanji for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13988 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 You can play the game backwards too, "fanny" being the most egregious offender. And, since we're in that territory, the aforementioned "bum" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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