Another local expression - do you have a variant?

[anitamo]

What a funny thread, I have just read the lot. 

I remember so many of my grandparents sayings things like:-

Tha rattles like a can o'mabs.... you rattle like a can of marbles.... meaning you talk too much/too loudly

She's got a face like the back end of a tram smash

Sit on that cold step and you'll get kill cough!!

[joanna69]

I'm from Dorset.  if you leave a door open when leaving a room (so letting in a draft) you get accused thus:  "Close the door, anyone would think you were born in Bridport!" or "what were you? Born in Bridport?" (said in broad Dorset accent of course )

I have NO idea why being born in Bridport should mean you are likely to leave doors open!!

A jasper or waps is a wasp...
Shrammed is being really cold.

[billramp]

Yes  'bost' is used in an old potteries saying......

"Cos chuck a bow aggen a woe, yed it, kick it an bost it!"

When it is said it is much more difficult to understand.!!!

Any ideas......I'll give the answer later!

Also I always understood the Bill in 'Black over bill's mothers's" referred to William Shakespeare

Bill

[billramp]

Just put last post on here and what should be on Radio 5 live now but phone in with the etymologist about phrases and expressions
spooky??

Bill

[Viktoria]

Chuck a ball against a wall, head it ,kick it and boot it---- is this anything like? Viktoria.

[nort]

what about these,they make me smile

he'll neither work nor want- he's a bit lazy

he wouldn't work in a iron lung - he's a bit lazy

give iz a shuggy - push me on the swing

give iz sum scranchims - when ordering fish n chips

i think i'll have a plodge - when at the seaside

i am up to me oxters - the snows a bit deep