What's that when it's at home?
hazydayz
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Classic stuff. Of course I could be here all night talking about the wonderful slang words from England. I used to think it was all an act on the telly until I heard these phrases in person.
What is your favourite slang terms or regional phrases? Do you ever use them in everyday life or are they from a bygone era, a generational thing?
What is your favourite slang terms or regional phrases? Do you ever use them in everyday life or are they from a bygone era, a generational thing?
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t'Lion, t'Witch and t'Wardrobe.
"It's a bit black over bill's mother's" !!!:D [referring to black clouds/impending bad weather]
i spent ages as a little girl wondering who bill and indeed his mother were!!:D
"I'll knock you into the middle of next week"
How cool,,!! What a buzz that journey would be.
"I'll kick the shit out of you"
Not so cool..but watching myself poo as a foot pounded my body would nonetheless be fascinating.
"I'll whip your arse"
Always sounded more like a latent sexual desire on the part of those threatening.
"I'll kick your head in"
Always made me think..Is my head currently 'out?'
..so many more. Violence and the veritable array of WTF sentiments have always amused me.
Meaning, for example, two departments of a major corporation aren't communicating well.
"The left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing"
Meaning that things are so completely ****ed up they don't even know what they are doing themselves.
'All my eye and Betty Martin' - means someone is talking a load of rubbish. My grandfather's favourite.
'He's about as useful as a fart in a colander' - someone who is absolutely useless. My grandmother used this a lot.
'He was like a duck in thunderstorm' - someone running around not knowing what they are doing. Again my grandmother.
'If you leave that there long enough, it will turn into a pigs trotter - said to me when caught picking my nose. My grandmothers again.
'He went over like a dog f******* a football'
It still makes me smile, just typing it.
T'Gud, T'Bad and T'Ugly
You too? Whenever we asked dad where he was going, the answer was always "to see a man about a dog".
I remember being disappointed when the long awaited dog never appeared!
As we were all newcomers to Britain in our house, none of us knew what it meant.
We'd heard of jellied eels, so thought that it was two portions of them, but why standing there?
Our best guess was that it meant impatient for something to happen.
Eventually my mother discovered that it meant unable to make your mind up, or confused as to what was happening.
I haven't heard it for years now, but I still don't get it.
She once said to me, how can we expect foreigners to learn English when it makes not much sense to the rest of us
As far as I know weddings have never been attended by couples only.......:o
a nice one was 'what did you last slave die of?'.........which mum used to say if you asked her to get you something
My mother had a few weird sayings, mostly directed towards me .
I was often " standing like a knot less thread"
Looked like a "sack of tatties, " because my belts were too tight on coat dress etc.
I would have to make a " kirk or a mill of things ". Ie a temple or a millstone of my life.
And " I'll draw my hand across your face " for answering back .
Could be related to "Standing there like one of Lewis's"