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No! not what you’re thinking you filthy buggers.
I love a good colloquialism - makes me sound more ‘Yarkshire’ even though I talk a bit posh dontcha know.
What’s your favourite phrase that would confuse those not from your neck of the woods? |
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By *eff4000Man
over a year ago
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I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness  |
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My parents had few of these old sayings.
You make a terrible window - if we were in there way while watching tv.
Was you born in a barn - if we left door open
It’s not Blackpool illuminations - If any lights left on |
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Ey up me duck - needs no explanation
Ayya mashin? - are you going to put the kettle on?
Black uvver bill's mother's - it looks like it's going to rain
Snap - packed lunch
Scraitin' - crying
Bonny - chubby
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"My parents had few of these old sayings.
You make a terrible window - if we were in there way while watching tv.
Was you born in a barn - if we left door open
It’s not Blackpool illuminations - If any lights left on "
I use all of these
And "eyes like piss holes in the snow"
And "put t'wood in't 'ole"
Allllllllll of 'em!
People wouldn't and don't understand "ye reet, cock? Which, when translated means "are you alright, dear fellow/lady".
I like the fact that "cock" or "cocker" is completely gender neutral too |
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"My parents had few of these old sayings.
You make a terrible window - if we were in there way while watching tv.
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Wow. That one must go right back to the Logie Baird era!
Tellies are so wide nowadays that it shouldn't be difficult to see quite a lot either side of someone! |
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"Jitty - Small alleyway
Mardy - Petulant
Cob - the correct way of saying a bread roll "
Ginnel - small alley
Mardy - agree
Cob - to have a cob on means to be cross. Or it's a type of horse. I think you mean barm  |
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"My parents had few of these old sayings.
You make a terrible window - if we were in there way while watching tv.
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Wow. That one must go right back to the Logie Baird era!
Tellies are so wide nowadays that it shouldn't be difficult to see quite a lot either side of someone!"
When we were kids our telly was in black n white and only had three Chanel’s. Def no wide screens then |
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Stop standin' there like one of Lewis's.
You got a cob on?
Not sure whether this is local or not, but when I said it in work my London colleagues had no idea what I was talking about: it's chocka in town. |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness "
I'm Northern and I've never heard this  |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this "
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?! 
It was said all the time in our family |
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A definite Midlands saying, but has spread to the outer reaches of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Mid Wales and even overseas on occasion.
When you used to travel from Brum/Walsall/Wolves to Shrewsbury,North Wales or Chester way- or tother way round, you found a bloody big hill in Shropshire called The Wrekin (its still there ). You had to go either along the old A5 or other side on the A458 (or do the lanes)....hence the expression 'All round the Wrekin', meaning taking the long road (literally or also used for someone faffing round at something they could do quickly).
Not quite so relevant now the M54 skirts along the side to join up to the A5 to the M6 |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family "
Noe, I'm gonna Google |
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"Jitty - Small alleyway
Mardy - Petulant
Cob - the correct way of saying a bread roll
Ginnel - small alley
Mardy - agree
Cob - to have a cob on means to be cross. Or it's a type of horse. I think you mean barm "
Nope it’s definitely a cob where I’m originally from. Also giz a croggie - which means give me a ride on your bike (her) |
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I'm bound for't catch t'buzz.
I am going to catch the bus.
He were right powfagged after leggin it inter t'mill to sort out the treddle that were all outta flunter. He reckoned it had gone askew and needed fettlin proper.
He was out of breath from running into the mill to fix a part of the spinning machine. Something was bent and would need to replaced or taken to the mechanics shop to fix it properly. |
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By *eff4000Man
over a year ago
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family
Noe, I'm gonna Google "
She was from Grimsby if that helps lol |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family
Noe, I'm gonna Google
She was from Grimsby if that helps lol"
Yes it’s quite a common one up here |
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"Once every preston guild.
When Dick docks, and the liverbirds fly.
Where they play tick, with hatchets.
He's got a head on him, as big as Birkenhead."
He/she/they have a mouth like the Mersey tunnel |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family
Noe, I'm gonna Google
She was from Grimsby if that helps lol
Yes it’s quite a common one up here "
Yeah we use that all the time in North west |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"No! not what you’re thinking you filthy buggers.
I love a good colloquialism - makes me sound more ‘Yarkshire’ even though I talk a bit posh dontcha know.
What’s your favourite phrase that would confuse those not from your neck of the woods? "
aye oop chuck!!!! Chuck what and where?  |
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As a man from the midlands living in Yorkshire, the only one I still struggle with is the way they say hole.
For those of you that don’t know, a hole is commonly referred to in these parts as oil. This one word alone is confusing in some many scenarios.
The mr |
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When in the states, having met some strangers in a bar I'll never get bored of the shocked expressions when I ask if anyone wants to join me for a fag outside. |
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"A poke is an ice cream cone over here which used to raise a few eyebrows when the English cousins visited and we asked the lovely lady in the shop to "give us a poke please" "
That reminds of the Jersey pronunciation of 'arse creem'."Would you lark a narse arse, Mulluv?"
Think Germolene when you hear the van chiming! |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family
Noe, I'm gonna Google
She was from Grimsby if that helps lol
Yes it’s quite a common one up here "
It was common in merseyside as well. |
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By *ashaleoCouple
over a year ago
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness "
Lol, pissing at this |
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"I once had a Northern colleague tell me my eyes looked like piss holes.
She explained it meant piss holes in the snow and that that in turn meant I looked tired.
I initially thought she meant my eyes looked like a urethra and were all reddish pink from tiredness
I'm Northern and I've never heard this
Da fuq?! You must have heard "he/she's got eyes like piss holes in the snow"?!
It was said all the time in our family
Noe, I'm gonna Google
She was from Grimsby if that helps lol
Yes it’s quite a common one up here
It was common in merseyside as well."
I thought this was a well known phrase. I'm not from Merseyside or Grimsby  |
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