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I was peerie heided trying to add to the Scots list contributed earlier.
That's one that my mother used on me a few times!My grandad, on seeing a scruffy, long-haired man: "He looks like the Wild Man of Borneo."
That's one that I don't think I've ever come across. Which part of Scotland is it used in?I was peerie heided trying to add to the Scots list contributed earlier.
I was peerie heided trying to add to the Scots list contributed earlier.
Might be Orkney / Shetlands.That's one that I don't think I've ever come across. Which part of Scotland is it used in?
Bleary eyed was an expression often used in my youth on Tyneside to describe difficulty reading small print.I was peerie heided trying to add to the Scots list contributed earlier.
The Alpine Lorry - plenty of colours but all one flavour!!!We used to have the Alpine lorry where you could buy fizzy drinks and stuff. None of our parents could really afford it so we were told we could have “council pop”, ie tap water
Some from my Leicestershire parents:
You’re like a fart in a colander —- you are not doing it properly
It smells like a pox doctor’s waiting room —- a bit smelly
You shot that in from the clock tower —- aimed badly
Which reminds me. My dad’s family are from Leicestershire / Northamptonshire and he often refers to people (generally politicians, oddly enough) as being “as two faced as Melton clock”
Was that saying a word play on Cockney rhyming slang?
That would be a porkie.Was that saying a word play on Cockney rhyming slang?
Yes, I still get called that sometimes, very flattering.'Young man' I am still often called, despite hair and beard being mostly gray.
One from my gran of Sussex
How many beans make 5.
And she used to say the answer so fast with a smile on her face,
A bean, another bean, bean and a half,half a bean and a bean.
Similarly "a pork pie short of a picnic".A ham sandwich short of a picnic = not all there, mentally.
Was unable to get the forum to quote the original reply.Might be Orkney / Shetlands.
Not one I've ever heard before.
The phrase apparently means one's head is spinning (like a top).
I've heard that as 'maisy head'.Also on days as hot as that in those days, women used to complain that they had "muzzy heads".
One that always perplexed me in our area of Mansfield was when someone was in a bad mood they'd got a "monk on" .
When we couldn’t remember what day it was during the School Holidays…
“What day is it tomorrow Granddad?”
“It’s…Friday and it’s Friday ALL day tomorrow!”
One from my gran of Sussex
How many beans make 5.
And she used to say the answer so fast with a smile on her face,
A bean, another bean, bean and a half,half a bean and a bean.
My grandfather too!In Bedfordshire the answer was "two beans, a bean, bean and a half, half a bean".
When I was young, anywhere that was an unknown distance away was "two fields the other side of China". My grandfather would describe a walk that had taken him nowhere in particular as "there and back to see how far it is".
There seem to have been a number of songs about John-Willie, who seems to have been a sort of Lancashire Everyman, or so it says on a site about Gracie Fields. Possibly it was a line from one of them.When getting ready to go out, to ask if someone was all set to go:
"Are you right, John-Willy, are you right?"
I presume that this came from a song.