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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #45 on: Monday 25 March 13 22:53 GMT (UK) »
Q: What are you doing?
A: Riding a bike round the kitchen table (this meant 'mind your own business')

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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #46 on: Tuesday 26 March 13 17:45 GMT (UK) »
My dad never swore so his favouite expression when things weren't going well was 'Drat' or 'Drat It'!

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« Reply #47 on: Tuesday 26 March 13 21:46 GMT (UK) »
My father rarely swore so  . . . . .   on the day when he found my son had mowed his newly emerging raspberry canes and he came back across the lawn muttering "dear oh dear oh dear oh dear - bu**er!" said son was very impressed - and worried!    ;D ;D ;D
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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #48 on: Monday 28 April 14 15:38 BST (UK) »
"this thread brought memories back..
"Ive been standing here like piffy/  like one o' Lewises (a mannequin in a large department store which used to be in Manchester...) Piffy seems to be an expression limited to sort of north east Manchester...further east it seems to be " like cheese at fourpence..". ..
"I've got more..........than soft Mick" whoever he was (I have a lot..rather too many.. of whatever)
Asa child  , when  dragging ny feet  to go to bed  and patience exhausted..."Come on..gerrup them dancers (Ginger rogers/fred astair)
Or in response to "whats for tea " Leighlos   for meddlers dyu want a pennyworth?"Or "two jumps o'er  t' butthery der (buttery door) and a bit of t'knob   HUH???
At work once we were waiting for some material to work on so I remarked that we were "stuck for bobbins"..young folk hadn't a clue what im meant..this in a former textile area that led the world :(


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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #49 on: Monday 28 April 14 20:12 BST (UK) »
The other day my Mum said to my toddler, in a teasing jesting way of course, that she'd have his guts for garters.

He finds it hilarious and now shouts it at random intervals during the day.

People in the family also refer to him as b*gg*r lugs which which is another odd one!
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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #50 on: Monday 28 April 14 20:54 BST (UK) »
How on earth did I miss this thread first time round??

Here in the Black Country, if it's looking like rain you often hear "It's black over Bill's mother's."

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."
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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #51 on: Monday 28 April 14 21:28 BST (UK) »
A Devonian friend used to say "It don't make no never mind do it?"

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« Reply #52 on: Monday 28 April 14 23:07 BST (UK) »
My Grandma used to say...Oh my giddy aunt.....and  Jesus, Mary & Joseph....whatever would they make of it! In a fluster she also would say......I don't whether I'm on this earth or fullers....or I don't
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Re: strange expletives passed down
« Reply #53 on: Wednesday 30 April 14 18:17 BST (UK) »
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)