strange expletives passed down

[Skoosh]

Thrang in Scotland = Busy, Thrang wi fowk, packed. Gaelic I think, similar?

Skoosh.

Or is it a local form of "Past Tense"?

Throng, Thronged       ( ring, rang)

Thrang = Scots, for busy, numerous, crowded, familiar, intimate, pressing, large quantity, bustle, confusion.
Thrangerie/Thrangatie = press of work, bustle.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Thrang = Scots, for busy, numerous, crowded, familiar, intimate, pressing, large quantity, bustle, confusion.

Also commonly used in Northern England - particularly this area.  I think it's of Norse origin rather than Gaelic.

Mike

[Skoosh]

Thrang = Scots, for busy, numerous, crowded, familiar, intimate, pressing, large quantity, bustle, confusion.

Also commonly used in Northern England - particularly this area.  I think it's of Norse origin rather than Gaelic.

Mike

And of course Gaelic has a big Norse input.

Skoosh.

[Wiggy]

And when I lived in Yorkshire I heard "Sod the expense - put another pea in the soup."  A variant on this was "Sod the expense - give the cat a goldfish."

Around here it is 'hang the expense, give the canary another seed'!   

[cati]

One used by a collegue of mine from Nottingham:

I wouldn't have [him/her/that etc] for a gold pig.

[Guyana]

One used by a collegue of mine from Nottingham:

I wouldn't have [him/her/that etc] for a gold pig.

Locally, that would be "not if 'is 'air 'ung in gold!"

[sarahsean]

Hello enjoying the thread!

Carol re Jesus, Mary and Joseph my husbands Aunt always uses that any time she is told of something surprising or shocking. She is only 45 but her mother and father are fairly  old. They are a Dublin family and I am not sure if it is just a Dublin thing or an Irish thing in general. In case you are wondering my husband is the eldest of the family and his uncle the youngest of the family and there is only two years between them!

Well contributing myself my Mum a Londoner used to say "You`re a one" if someone did something strange or silly.

Regards
Sarah

[cati]

One used by a collegue of mine from Nottingham:

I wouldn't have [him/her/that etc] for a gold pig.

Locally, that would be "not if 'is 'air 'ung in gold!"

In a similar vein, Stephen Fry once suggested that Emma, Lady Hamilton (who had, apparently, a strong Lancashire accent) might have commented "I wouldn't have him if he came free with a nest of tables."

Cati

[Katharine F]

My father when something went wrong used to exclaim. "Damn and blast it!"

Another saying I remember is ...as black as Newgate's knocker, I believe it originates as a reference to the black metal knocker on the door of Newgate prison. It was often used for very dark clouds.