lazarus   68 #661 Posted July 2, 2017 If my Mother found our house in a mess she would say " this is a right pleck" I was told today that pleck came from a Dutch word meaning basic or plain. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
JOHN HABS Â Â 10 #662 Posted August 1, 2018 Remembering things my grandma use to say.................. Have you heard of these: Â San Pisall.........meaning: to strike someone. Â Soft brasened........meaning: being cheeky in either the way younger people address the older generation / or in the way they conduct themselves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Texas   10 #663 Posted August 5, 2018 Getting the silent treatment in the morning, 'Awreet love? Silence. 'Ave y'got monk on'? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Ontarian1981 Â Â 10 #664 Posted August 5, 2018 As a youngster, new to the workforce, I used to hear a lot of weird and sometimes funny phrases. One I remember, and I heard it more than once was ''put thee hat back on thi er sackin towd uns" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
fatrajah   10 #665 Posted August 6, 2018 Referring to some unusual or strange object, people used to say "We had one of them but the wheel fell off". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
DUFFEMS Â Â 55 #666 Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) When looking for something lost in the home the reply was usually "it's in a bottle in t'cupboard" or "up shah's <removed> on t' second shelf". Edited August 6, 2018 by nikki-red Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Odie   10 #667 Posted August 13, 2018 Itrained as a gymnast from an early age and was always practising in our garden,my mum worried by some of my antics and shouted"don't come running to me when you break both your legs" and if she slapped us she always said"do you want another one" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Odie   10 #668 Posted August 13, 2018 thas as thin as a satdi chicken,my dad used it  ---------- Post added 13-08-2018 at 02:02 ----------  my dad used to say "stop pickin tha noo us,the eared ul cave in"  ---------- Post added 13-08-2018 at 02:55 ----------  the satdi chicken or shillin chickin come about because when the market closed on a satdi they slod the leftover ones cheap,all the best ones had gone and only the scraggy thin ones were left and only cost a shilling  ---------- Post added 13-08-2018 at 02:58 ----------  my late brother had a book of Yorkshire Bible Stories, it was all written in broad yorkshire dialect and was hilarious,don't know what happened to it, has anyone else ever seen one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Albert smith   11 #669 Posted August 13, 2018 "Whats for tea mam" "three runs at cupboard door". still don't know what she meant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jim Hardie   527 #670 Posted August 13, 2018 "Whats for tea mam" "three runs at cupboard door". still don't know what she meant.  At our house it was "a run roundt' kitchen table and a kick ont' cellar dooer." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
jaffa1 Â Â 10 #671 Posted August 13, 2018 At our house it was "a run roundt' kitchen table and a kick ont' cellar dooer." Â That was the same at arhowse. Another saying our mother use to say if she had been short changed or conned in anyway was that it was a Swizz or a Swizzle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
deedar   10 #672 Posted August 13, 2018 Anyone remember when a pocket or clasp knife was closed, and it really snapped shut because it had a strong spring, was said to 'talk'. I think that word must be"Torque" it's an engineering term for how much turning force is needed to open the penknife. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...