grinder   10 #229 Posted November 12, 2010 Any one mentioned the one they used if you couldn't finish your dinner ?  "Ah, thi eyes were bigger than thi belly".... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Puffin4 Â Â 10 #230 Posted November 12, 2010 Whenever, as a teenager, I was acting contrary to my father's wishes, he would tell me "tha wants to bloody frame". Is this a Sheffield expression? I have never heard anyone else use it save for once, in the film Billy Liar when Wilfrid Pickles said it to his son Tom Courtney. Â Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Blueeyes46 Â Â 10 #231 Posted November 12, 2010 Not sure uf this is a sheffield one, but my dad used to say "tha wants to know far end of a fart an weer it comes from" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #232 Posted November 12, 2010 Any one mentioned the one they used if you couldn't finish your dinner ?  "Ah, thi eyes were bigger than thi belly"....  And if you did manage to finish the food, you could "Eat two taters more'n a pig!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Texas   10 #233 Posted November 12, 2010 Hey Plain Talker, Here's my understanding of 'Gansey'. They were the fisherman's garments that were originally done in Guernsey. And 'Jerseys' were the fisherman's garments done in.........? Yeah, you got it. 'Bloody frame', I'd like to know the origin of that expression. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
fleetwood   10 #234 Posted November 12, 2010 My dad always used the phrase 'tha not framin', to mean, 'your not doing it properly' like in not holding a hammer right, if you were knocking a nail in. *** The other phrase 'livin oer brush', if anybody remembers the TV mini series 'Roots' by Alex Hailey, the term 'jumpin' the broom' was used by black slaves in America's deep south in some kind of common law marriage ceremony, so who knows where or when that saying originated? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #235 Posted November 12, 2010 Hey Plain Talker, Here's my understanding of 'Gansey'. They were the fisherman's garments that were originally done in Guernsey. And 'Jerseys' were the fisherman's garments done in.........? Yeah, you got it. 'Bloody frame', I'd like to know the origin of that expression.  Yes, gansey is a "corruption" of Guernsey,  Ganseys are certainly fishermen' sweaters. Did you know, each fishing village had its own pattern (design) for the gansey. It was for a sad reason. If the fisherman were drowned, when the body was washed up, the person could be identified as to which village they were from. Their remains could then be repatriated and buried. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
grinder   10 #236 Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) As tha ever got summut arse uppeds and been told that Barmy .. Edited November 13, 2010 by grinder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Puffin4 Â Â 10 #237 Posted November 13, 2010 Another one of my late father's. He used to tell me, tougue in cheek, that as a boy, he knew a Rev. R. Suppards. Â Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
grinder   10 #238 Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) Where the heck did "paying through the nose" if you had to pay over the odds come from ? Edited November 13, 2010 by grinder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #239 Posted November 13, 2010 As tha ever got summut arse uppeds and been told that Barmy ..  I'm definitely barmy, being blonde...  and yes I often do things Ar$e upp'ards (Or ar$e about face, if we need to be technical ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
grinder   10 #240 Posted November 14, 2010 Bow legged people, couldn't stop a pig in an entry, embarrassed folk, went as red as a beet root and if you had a large nose you'd got a big conk.  Rule Britannia two tanners make a bob, three make one and six and four two bob.  If your Bob dunt gi our Bob that bob that your Bob owes our Bob, our Bob'll gi your Bob a bob on nooers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...