Another local expression - do you have a variant?

[Dancing Master]

someone mean  "as tight as a fishes bum",     which is airtight"

[GeoffE]

someone mean  "as tight as a fishes bum",   

I've seen a fish have a pee!

[coombs]

A wot yee druv - some Sussex dialect. I dont know what it means.

Aw yew gettin' arnn? - Norfolk speak

[pete edwards]

Here in Shrewsbury, anybody that comes from the sticks sourounding us, mainly South Shropshire way,  are classed as " upper wammers " 

Pete

[coombs]

I just googled "druv" and it means driven, ie as driven to do something.

"I wont bee druv" says a Sussex farmer.

Ben

[Viktoria]

Pete Edwards! Upper Whammers indeed!All those wonderful people - the farmers, lead miners and the Ag Labs,   especially the lead miners who feature very prominently in my family history. they walked miles to work and then a long way underground to reach the actual seam, descending and ascending by vertical ladders hundreds of feet ,then walked home and tended their smallholdings to make a reasonable standard of living and when the mine s closed they had to buy their little cottages or become homeless. It was all pretty heartless and when you think one of the largest land owners who had mining rights was The marquess of Bath!!!!!!! Well- I am very proud to be descended from such people whose health was ruined by Silicosis by the age of forty (and no compensation in those days) yet they walked miles to worship at the chapels on their one day off .There was almost no trouble in the little villages and hamlets around The Stiperstones area. They were really decent people and not  stupid either.Upper Whammers-consider yourself told off young man. Viktoria.

[Ozdot]

My husband, born in Sheffield, always said when asked by our girls what was for dinner - 'duck under the table'.
Anyone with a less than beautiful face is said to have a 'face like a bag of maggots'.
Yes, he comes out with 'sky blue pink' as well, and when the weather looks like rain - 'it's black over Bill's mothers'.
When amazed he used to say 'well I'll go to the foot of our stairs'.  (not said that for some years now after living in Oz for 40 years with no stairs).
A bit of Sheffield dialect from his father - 'don't put your dannies in your mussie'.  Which means - 'don't put your hand in your mouth'.

Keep it up chatters, I'm enjoying all the chat.

Cheers,
Dot.

[Magrat]

Words like Barley and Fainites are truce words. I can remember you also had hold up crossed fingers for them to be valid.

Information about them can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_terms

I remember a phrase my mother used to use when things went wrong and that was 'It makes you want to spit balls of blood'.

Magrat

[sarahsean]

Here in Ireland when my children want to say something is good they say it is savage, or if it is really good fierce savage,  in my day back in England it was cool.

As a southern English woman we used to say a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Also my husband who is Irish has never heard of the phrase poorly to say someone is ill. We saw some cards in the shop the other day with the phrase on and i told him i wasn`t the only one to use it. The reply well it is an english chain (Tesco)!

Sarah