Another local expression - do you have a variant?

[stoney]

My daughter spent three years in Sheffield at university - she has now accquired the term "cob" meaning to "add casually",  as in making a stew "....cob in a few carrots...."

Not sure if this is a Sheffield term or something she picked up from one of her house mates who hailed from the Wirral!


Stoney

[AMBLY]

If a child (especially a small one or a baby) was upset and crying/grizzling/sulking and there wasn't much of a reason to, My Granny (maybe Grandad too) would always say:

"What a pity to poocha about!?"

Always said in an exaggerated, jollying way - never cross - designed to take the mind off whatever was the matter.

Falkland Islanders also would say, "Poocha Man!" to express amazement, disbelief, or strong expression etc -  as , in "Poocha man, that was a rough night!"

I started my own, too I think (unless I've picked it up someplace I can't recall)  whenever daughter (5) asks "What are you doing?" when she cas see what I'm doing - I say "Swinging on the light singing hallelughiah". Heard her say it to her father on the phone the other day, straight face, and totally matter of fact.

Cheers
AMBLY

[cad]

I'd like to throw in a few of my Mum's expressions here, she attributed them to members of her family so we're talking North Wales here...
      When Nelson gets his eye back ( in other words, never)
      I've seen more meat on Lester Piggot's whip
      I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil
      They'd spoil another couple
      If your Aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle ( I also heard an American version of this one, if your Aunt had wheels she'd be a trolley bus)
      He couldn't stop a pig in a poke
      Face like a smacked arse
She considered many thinks to be "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick" but in more ribald company the stick would be coated in something more offensive that rhymed with gritty!
If we kid's were in a "can I have" mood we were told to stop mythering.
Poking around nooks and crannies for treasure was mooching
If you couldn't go out without a coat on, you were nesh.
Also being from Shropshire, the phrase "all around the Wrekin" is one I'm familiar with although I was gobsmacked the first time I heard a Brummie use it, as I had often had to explain to them where Shropshire was and whenever I address a Brummie with "Ow bist kid?" they think I'm speaking German!!
     
     

[IgorStrav]

Love those, Cad!

I just thought of one my mum used to say, after a particularly tiring day out......

" Home, James, and don't spare the horses!"

and another one, which is related to an old comic song, and both my parents used to say, a propos of nothing:

"You can tell a man what boozes by the company he chooses"
And the pig got up, and slowly walked away.


And I suppose nobody here knows the tale which starts

"There's a firm in the Strand called Twinings, Tea Merchants and Bankers.  Old Mr Twining had three sons........."

[Paul]

Having to do something you'd rather not do. 'I'd rather have me a**e rubbed with a brick'

Paul

[chirp]

Up here in Eastern Scotland your packed lunch or sandwich is a "piece" and you carry it in your "piece poke".  I'm told this comes from the time when it was common to take a portion of cold solidified porridge for your midday meal.  Also an expression which I heard when I moved up here, and I hadn't come across for many years since my childhood in Manchester, was going for your "messages" meaning going shopping. A cold biting wind is a "snell wind". If someone is looking miserable, ie with a long face, it can be said that "his face is trippin' him". To cry or weep is "to greet".
Chirp

[Treetotal]

I wish I had a pound for every time my Mum said..."Be careful...you'll have sombody's eye out with that"...
Carol

[Subaru]

'She's got a face like bad fat'  - somebody who is in a mood!!

or

'She's got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp' - not the prettiest of faces!!

Rosemary

[Deb D]

From downunder: - some of these may be variations on sayings brought over by our ancestors?  Some of them also seem to have different meanings, depending on where they're heard.

"Born in a paddock with the sliprails down" (= Close the door!)

"Got a 'roo loose in the top paddock" (= crazy)

"The elevator doesn't go all the way to the penthouse"  (*ditto*)

"Don't come the raw prawn!" (= "Don't lie to me")

"Flat out like a lizard drinking" (* the meaning of this varies: - sometimes it means really busy, and other times it means bludging instead of working *)

"Mad as a cut snake" (= Really angry)

"More paint than a battleship needs, and enough powder to blow it up" (*that one's pretty obvious, I think*)

"If his brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his hat off"

And .. the mother of a friend of mine used to say, when asked what was for dinner .... "Pig's bum and booligum".  I've never found out what booligum was.