General Chat

were there's muck there's brass three sheets to the wind if you pick that you'll end up with a pigs foot eh bah gum not a full shilling

To get someone’s hackles up :- to make someone angry and quarrelsome so as to be ready to fight. (happens a lot on here that one!!)

A stitch in time saves nine.

We recently heard a friend from Sheffield say 'Oh, you're like a cat at a fair!' My mum still says, 'bit black over Bill's mother's' when referring to dark rain clouds. When I was young I thought every one she knew was called Bill.

Kirsten, I had not come across the cat one before, do you know what it means? ;-))

a penny saved is a penny earned a dimmple of the chin brings a frotune in, a dimmple on the cheak leaves a fortune to seek Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath Day, Is bonny, and blithe, and good, and gay. Up the wooden hill to the land of nod. Sleep tight Like a bull in a china shop

In my mum's Scottish family it was 'back to auld claes and porridge' meaning, after the holiday, back to normal.....I still use it......

As black as Newgate's knocker - my Mum used to say that when giving me a bath - I was grown up before I realised it referred to Newgate prison knocker! - what's that, fog or Scotch mist? - said by mum when she'd found something no one else could find. - you need that like a frog needs a backpocket - Norfolk grandfather - meant you don't need it at all - its as wet as a sh*t on a slate on a rainy day - also norfolk grandfather. - a fact is a lie and a half - also Norfolk grandfather. nell