Phrases once common you rarely hear today

Apparently if you scratch your arse, it means you'll come into money.

My mam used to say "itchy bum, money to come".

Funny thing is she's Russian and speaks with a moskovskoye proiznosheniye.

So I've no idea who taught her that saying
She probably meant piles
 
A mouth like the inside of an Arab's flipflop.
That's my name don't wear it out.
Where are you going?. Out of my mind
I've seen more work in a sicknote.
He thought Manual Labour was a Spaniard.
Play the white man.
A couple of navy ones.
To somebody lazy. A good steward/cook/ seaman would be up you.
She's a good feeder. ( Meaning the food was good onboard.)
I've been longer on a wave than you've been at sea.
I've shaved in.more water.
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I still use a lot of my parents and grandparents sayings,
One of my Dads was, "He is halfway up Berrynewroad" when someone was a bit odd, I had no idea what it meant but knew exactly what it meant at the same time?
Turns out when my Dad was a kid there was a mental hospital at the top of Bury New Road so someone half way there was nearly in the Mental Hospital,
One of Mums was if I came home and asked what was for Tea she would say "Three jumps at the cupboard door" if there was nothing to eat in the house,
Grandads favorite saying if asked to do something was "I will give it a good coat of looking over" meaning the job probably wouldnt get done,
I now live in Shropshire & get a lot of weird looks when I use some of the old sayings, doesnt stop me though :-)
 
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He needs a checkup from the neck up
Her boobs are drooping like slate hangers nail bags
Her n....pples are like: Scammell starter buttons/chapel hat pegs
Pick your face up, if the weather changes it'll stay like that
Im stood her like piffy on a stick
 
You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face.

You’ve got a voice like a corncraike

Willy woofter

Go to the foot of our stairs
 

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