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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #81 on: Saturday 10 January 09 02:39 GMT (UK) »
I am always saying myself
"Well it's better than a kick in the head"
And I think that's from the South West

Although on another vein - I did have a teacher in the 1970s - who used to say in exclamation - "Well! Chase my Aunt Fanny round the static water tank!

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #82 on: Saturday 10 January 09 08:47 GMT (UK) »
someone mean  "as tight as a fishes bum",     which is airtight"

Tight as a ducks ass! Watertight!

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #83 on: Sunday 11 January 09 00:02 GMT (UK) »
Yes, Woody, that duck's one is well known in our family!

I always thought 'poorly' was a Yorkshire expression, but maybe it is widespread.

The first time I visited Sheffield with OH we were in a small zoo with my in-laws when my mother in law saw a deer with a bandage around its antler.  "Oh, he's got a poorly horn" she said, and I nearly cracked up!

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #84 on: Sunday 11 January 09 01:51 GMT (UK) »

   It's horn's badly.

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #85 on: Sunday 11 January 09 02:26 GMT (UK) »
Derbyshire we refer to someone being "poorly" - but if they look ill the saying is "he looks as badly as a fowl"

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #86 on: Thursday 16 April 09 21:28 BST (UK) »
Here in Shrewsbury, anybody that comes from the sticks sourounding us, mainly South Shropshire way,  are classed as " upper wammers " 

Pete :)

Whooo hooo I'm an ex-upper Wammer then!
(lived by Craven Arms years back!)
Manchester – Bate(s) / Bebbington / Coppock or Coppart / Evans / Mitchell / Prince / Smith

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #87 on: Saturday 18 April 09 21:37 BST (UK) »
I use to hear

Aw go frame ya sen!  = sort yourself out

cooz is oot = cows are in the field

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #88 on: Sunday 19 April 09 02:02 BST (UK) »

 Frame thissen.

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Re: Another local expression - do you have a variant?
« Reply #89 on: Sunday 19 April 09 15:02 BST (UK) »
Was just thinking - as I was lying in bed this morning not getting up to do the chores - my mum always used to say in such circumstances

"Well, THIS won't get the baby washed"

She didn't have any babies requiring washing as far as I know.

Anything similar anywhere?
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex