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'What were they on about?' What Grandparents from Sheffield used to say.


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anyone heard of the saying shim shams for meddlers,my nan used to say this all the time, what does it mean.:)

 

Shimshams for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks......don't know where it comes from but was always used to say more or less....mind your own business....

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He were up to his eye brows in debt..

 

hiya grinder,

also up to is neck int brarn stuff, dissing an dattin, ummin an arrin,bittin an battin,, remember mornins, afters, an neets,ees gorrit made narr anee ees ad a tuch ont geegee's,or popoes,, cummin an gooin, da nose nowt de if da did dad no wat da wer torkin abart, sithi, thisen,wots up wi dee ?, nar den wots up wi di, both different sayings, am reight dry, get theesen a cup err watter, wen ar tha gooin a wecken up dar dope, wen dars weckend up geeus a showt, farr awl dar nose,am reigh do arnt a.

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Perhaps the cornish referred to the French term corniche, meaning coast, or a model of the Rolls Royce range. Doughtfull on the Woodthorpe though. T,owse was used to entertain guests, mainly on Sundays. Lesser beings conscripted to the "coil oyl".

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