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The Lighter Side / Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« on: Friday 24 July 09 15:53 BST (UK) »
I have really enjoyed reading the local expressions.
Here are some from my Liverpool, Irish, Mum.
Hands like shovels and feet like ferry boats.
A voice like a fog horn on the Mersey
So tight he wouldn't give you last night's Echo.
Dressed up like a dog's dinner.
Someone had a face that would frighten the cows.
A face so long it would trip them.
Muscles like knots in cotton.
Someone who was known as very light fingered.... He would take the eyes out of your head and come back and spit in the sockets.
Someone who was very happy was said to be like a dog with two tails or two d---s.
When I asked for anything she would say, "when Dick docks". I don't know who Dick was.
I'll buy you two in case one makes you sick. or most annoying "I will knit you one."
When I didn't listen....I'll put you in a corner with your ears tied back. ...She never did.
By the way Dancing Dolly was part of a song she used to sing. I think it was a skipping rhyme.
Dancing Dolly had no sense,
She bought three eggs for eighteen pence,
The eggs were bad, Dolly went mad,
Pit, pat, pepper.
Here are some from my Liverpool, Irish, Mum.
Hands like shovels and feet like ferry boats.
A voice like a fog horn on the Mersey
So tight he wouldn't give you last night's Echo.
Dressed up like a dog's dinner.
Someone had a face that would frighten the cows.
A face so long it would trip them.
Muscles like knots in cotton.
Someone who was known as very light fingered.... He would take the eyes out of your head and come back and spit in the sockets.
Someone who was very happy was said to be like a dog with two tails or two d---s.
When I asked for anything she would say, "when Dick docks". I don't know who Dick was.
I'll buy you two in case one makes you sick. or most annoying "I will knit you one."
When I didn't listen....I'll put you in a corner with your ears tied back. ...She never did.
By the way Dancing Dolly was part of a song she used to sing. I think it was a skipping rhyme.
Dancing Dolly had no sense,
She bought three eggs for eighteen pence,
The eggs were bad, Dolly went mad,
Pit, pat, pepper.