Old Sayings or Jokey Phrases?.

[rose2008-2008]

I suddenly catch myself recently using old sayings that my father used to use rather than my mother!!.

My dad used to say,,,,,,,,,"Steady On Barker!!!!!!!,,,,.

"Coooooor Lummy!!! was another although i think it was a rephrase on Corrr Blimey!!.

"Hang On The Bell Nellie"   if i said HANG ON if he was walking too fast,, as i always said "Slow Down when i could not catch up. My dad was a fast walker and im told people called him The Greyhound!!!.

Has anyone else heard these before??.   LOL, LOl,..

Or can you remember your family having any Sayings or Phrases?...  

[chickengrandma-2008]

I use that one all the time (as in outside doors in the winter, or even a gate or shed door).

All these sayings have a meaning behind them, I was just explaining the 'don't throw the baby out with the bath water' one to my cleaner on Friday.  I think it's when people don't understand the meaning of them that they're said wrongly.  If you say 'She was talking ten to the dozen' instead of 'nineteen to the dozen' it loses it's meaning altogether, and in fact then means the opposite to what you want it to mean!  

[saasher2012]

Aah yes&; also, them there girls is yacking like cows chewing the cud.

[chickengrandma-2008]

We have a neighbour who is always in a mood and looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp! 

[saasher2012]

Like that one! Similar to looks like she's sucking a lemon.

[cee-dee]

Ladies used to say "I must go see me aunt" and sometimes it was "me arm's droppin' off, I must see me aunt".

At other times it was "I'm must be off to the little girls room."

Another old saying was "Huh, one look from her would turn milk sour".

[carolyorkie2010]

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@stroppy*cow wrote:

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@stroppy*cow wrote:

If you leave the door open MIL always says "Were you born in a barn".

My Dad's favourite was "More money than sense" - he wasn't one for gizmo's and gadgets.

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My Dad used to say, "Was you born in a field". I still say it to OH when he leaves the door open!

My Dad's favourite was "More money than sense" - he wasn't one for gizmo's and gadgets.

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[calibra101]

My dad used to say "He/She always runs against the wind" meaning the person makes it difficult for themselves.

[petitecalicocat]

When the sky was dark before a rain storm my Mum would say     " its gone black over Bills' mothers ",  she would also say "well i'll go to foot of our stairs " when suprised about something .  🙂

[cookiecookuk]

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@petitecalicocat wrote:

When the sky was dark before a rain storm my Mum would say     " its gone black over Bills' mothers ",  she would also say "well i'll go to foot of our stairs " when suprised about something .  🙂

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my mum use to say its gone dark over wills mothers and one day a couple of years ago we all sat outside a pub and it started to get dark over wills mothers so i said this to everyone and i spent the next two hours trying to explain who Will was

[wskneil]

I find myself using one of my mums sayings  "You lie like a stink fish" which is always said in a joking way when someone makes something up!

[fishpieface]

My Gran used to say "Had your eyeful, paid your tuppence?" when somebody was staring.

My Hubby says Luummmy a lot and I've never heard anybody else say it except his

Grandpa who passed away years ago.

There are loads of others my Gran would say, some of which are unrepeatable due to

what would now be construed as not politially correct!

I often find myself saying these little sayings without really thinking about them, just

because it's what family say about similar scenarios.

I remember saying once to somebody that they had the patience of a busload of saints,

not the usual one, they thought that was funny!

[rose2008-2008]

A bit like one above my family would say "its black as noogits knocker!!!"    WHATS that MEAN?

And mum would say "you daft aporth!!!!".           WHATS AN APORTH?.

VERY STRANGE.

[rose2008-2008]

I meant the sky when i said noogits whatsit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!       LOL

[duck_a_lorange]

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@rose2008-2008 wrote:

A bit like one above my family would say "its black as noogits knocker!!!"    WHATS that MEAN?

And mum would say "you daft aporth!!!!".           WHATS AN APORTH?.

VERY STRANGE.

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"aporth" - actually "ha'p'orth" - "halfpenny-worth" .

For those who are too young to know - halfpenny is pronounced haypny...

[duck_a_lorange]

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

One that I don't know the meaning of was,  If I asked my mum  when we could buy something or go somewhere (not having any money)  she used to say 'When my ship comes in'  What ship?  Where was it coming from? and why would it have anything on it for her?

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Once upon a time, before banks, people who were rich or who could scrape together enough money would fit out a ship and send it off to the East.   Poorer people could put a smaller amount towards the venture.

If the ship and its crew survived scurvy, storms, calms, pirates and shipwreck,  and got back home - often years later - with a cargo of silks and spices, you could get rich, or at least make some profit, depending on the amount you had invested. 

Meanwhile you could be dreaming of all the things you could do when your ship comes in...

[wskneil]

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@rose2008-2008 wrote:

A bit like one above my family would say "its black as noogits knocker!!!"    WHATS that MEAN?

VERY STRANGE.

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A corruption of black as Newgate's knocker  refering to the large black cast iron knocker on the gate of Newgate Prison in London

[wskneil]

And a quick search for Bills mother comes up with this rhyme from Nottingham,

Hurricane Bill, that ‘twas its name, It brewed up dark and stormy,

And as he watched the weather charts It put the wind up Normy.

‘Tie down your kids’ in vain he cried, But not because of weather,

They were getting on his nerves, Bikes racing hell for leather.

‘Advise your wives’ he shouted out, To wear something less floating,

The wind will catch her fair and square, And flight times we’ll be quoting.’

‘Take down your flags and lower your masts, Whatever be their colour.

Turn off your fairy lights and lamps, Sure life will be much duller.’

‘For we must ride this great storm out, And all come through the weather,

‘Cause when you camp at Lower Treave, We’re all in it together!’

‘But wait’ cried Norm, ‘the chart is wrong, This weather’s for another,

This hurricane won’t come to us, It’s going to Bill’s Mother!’

[ed_blackadder_1]

Cookie, My father always say it's gone dark over wills mothers and we thought it was a devon saying, obviously not.

[wskneil]

Oh disregard the Bills mother  derivation  ..... it seems it is a case of internet whispers!

http://blogwallbugle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/thats-how-rumours-get-started.html#comment-form

[chickengrandma-2008]

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@duck_a_lorange wrote:

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

One that I don't know the meaning of was,  If I asked my mum  when we could buy something or go somewhere (not having any money)  she used to say 'When my ship comes in'  What ship?  Where was it coming from? and why would it have anything on it for her?

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Once upon a time, before banks, people who were rich or who could scrape together enough money would fit out a ship and send it off to the East.   Poorer people could put a smaller amount towards the venture.

If the ship and its crew survived scurvy, storms, calms, pirates and shipwreck,  and got back home - often years later - with a cargo of silks and spices, you could get rich, or at least make some profit, depending on the amount you had invested. 

Meanwhile you could be dreaming of all the things you could do when your ship comes in...

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Thank you duck, I never knew that and hadn't actually thought of it until this thread appeared.

 Well, those poor sailors must have perished because her ship never did come in.