Sayings - Especially From The Past

[RayCee]

My mum was big on sayings but as they were from the North of England, most people in NZ didn't know them. I recall some she used often but I've forgotten most of them. Here are some that I recall. 

'That happens once every Preston Guild'.

'There's none so queer as folk'.

"Here's your hat, what's your hurry?'

"He wouldn't give you last year's Echo'.

'She was standing there like one of Lewis's'.

'Act daft and I'll buy you a coalyard".

"Were you born in a field with the gate left open?'.

'It's like Blackpool illuminations here'.

"You do that and I'll carry the bricks'.

[amm]

I’ve used about half of those

I can’t recall any others at the moment apart from one, but I’ll come back to the thread when I do.

Tha’ll look owder ‘bout teeth

Sounds like I was a little fighter, I wasn’t. It was used by me and my friends if another friend took the mickey out of us, as a sort of banter reply, with a smile and a laugh. 

[gingerjon]

(Read thread underneath)

And, indeed, the many, many others.

[Mumby Magic]

O you little....... I was going to start a similar thread. 

How about. Where are going on holiday anywhere nice?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I read the title of this thread as "savings" and clicked on it thinking it was gonna be a nostalgia thread about how you didn't used to have to take out a mortgage to buy Fredos! 

[JohnM]

Here's one from way way back : Premier League winners Manchester United.

[Gerrumonside ref]

‘Trouble at mill?’*

’Be reet’**

*this is a classic Bolton phrase when enquiring whether someone has a problem at work 

**another classic to say ‘be alright’ or more correctly ‘be reet’ when somebody is excessively fretting over something in their life.  Meant to bring calm.

[graveyard johnny]

your to carry up hill an darn dale

[RayCee]

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

your to carry up hill an darn dale

You've got me there Johnny. I haven’t heard that one or understood it.

[Damien]

Put wood in hole

[Stirlin]

' werst do fra '

[graveyard johnny]

7 hours ago, RayCee said:

You've got me there Johnny. I haven’t heard that one or understood it.

i think it means you need everything done for you

[Wolford6]

'Give it a bit of Manchester', when struggling with digging or maintenance operations.

 

Manchester screwdriver ... a hammer.

[Griff]

My Great Aunt Jane often said "It's t'same as t'man i't' hat says ........"

It meant that she was not alone in her opinion.

[Griff]

"Just for fancy".

Purely decorative.

[silverback]

Get thi gannzy on its cold.

tha pees like co op horse.

[JohnM]

22 minutes ago, silverback said:

Get thi gannzy on its cold.

tha pees like co op horse.

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[Padge]

Tha favers a flitten

[RayCee]

A penny for your thoughts.

I need to spend a penny.

The penny just dropped.

 

[Gordon Street]

On 27/08/2022 at 02:36, RayCee said:

My mum was big on sayings but as they were from the North of England, most people in NZ didn't know them. I recall some she used often but I've forgotten most of them. Here are some that I recall. 

'That happens once every Preston Guild'.

'There's none so queer as folk'.

"Here's your hat, what's your hurry?'

"He wouldn't give you last year's Echo'.

'She was standing there like one of Lewis's'.

'Act daft and I'll buy you a coalyard".

"Were you born in a field with the gate left open?'.

'It's like Blackpool illuminations here'.

"You do that and I'll carry the bricks'.

'the mountains are high, but the valleys are low'

'the sun never rises twice on the same day'

'there's many a throbble meks a thribble'

'he's more crank on 'im than a set o' whit Tuesdays in Grimsdale' 

[GUBRATS]

Yonks 

[Pigeon Lofter]

Here's a few off the top of my head...

"You gobbin!"   My dad used to call me this if I displeased him.

" E favvers a monkey!" Attributed to my grandmother.

"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.." My dad, underwhelmed by something. He always called the stairs the "jolly dancers", I haven't heard that now for decades. Is it still in use up north??

"It's taters" Everyone living in the frozen north on stepping outside.

"It's jankers for you!" Exasperated headmaster detailing my upcoming punishment.

"Am I eckerslike!" Not me, definitely not me.

 

[DaveButt]

"If ya don't stop skriking I'll give ya sumat ta skrike for"

[Gerrumonside ref]

Going upstairs = going up the wooden hill

[Gerrumonside ref]

When I was younger I remember reading about a study saying northern regional dialects wouldn’t survive the new century due to the global media creating a single language that everyone would use.

Turns out that was wrong and northern regional dialect is still holding its own.

I say be proud of your northern regional dialects and heritage!

It is worth celebrating and ignore any attempts from the ######-taking southern types who’ve lost their own sense of identity (some but not all x)