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Anyone know this one?

Giving somebody or something some Poll Thom(p)son. Any ideas? It means giving something a real bashing, so could it be the name of a specific piece of heavy machinery like a steam hammer?
 
Grandad used to draw a rudimetory boat shape and say boat. Then he would add a stick in the centre and say umbrella, then he would draw a border round the stick with a rounded top, turn it round and say light bulb, then he would turn it back ovwr and say, Mary Jones's bum in the bath!
 
Nico said:
Have you swallowed the knife box as you are so sharp this morning
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Yes my Gran, who was born in 1900, used the phrase ,"You're sharp today, you must have swallowed the knife box". It reminds me of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" where Mr Quinion who runs the counting house where the young David is sent to work, calls David "Brookes of Sheffield" and says to him " I suppose you are a pretty sharp fellow still, eh Brookes?" and the wicked stepfather, Mr.Murdstone, replies"Aye, he's sharp enough". "Sheffield" of course refers to the place where knives are made.
 
Another phrase my Gran used quite often was, if the sky was going dark outside and it was looking like rain, "it's looking black over Bill's mother's". I've no idea who Bill was or his mother for that matter.
 
Whiteknight said:
Another phrase my Gran used quite often was, if the sky was going dark outside and it was looking like rain, "it's looking black over Bill's mother's". I've no idea who Bill was or his mother for that matter.
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Nor me but our neighbour opposite was a Bill and he lived with his mother. But it was a war time phrase I think like mind my bike.If it was dark out nan would say it's as black as club ten. Or someone has a face like thunder. Or if someone was irate with her, put yer ruddy eyes back in yer ed. If Nan didn't know someones name she would say Mrs Ooojacapivvy.
My mate's Dublin gran sang, Dickie Dickie doubt with his shirt hangin out.
 
post 90 both my mom and dad, and both sets of grand parents used this phrase when it looked like rain or thunder, or when when the daylight went very dull.
 
My ex father-in-law used to say "Up the Dancers" when it was time for my son to go to bed, I don't know what it means. (Hope it's not rude!). He was a Brummie though.
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Except that it started being used before Astaire (from https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/480.html ) :
The Oxford Engl. Dict. says "dancers" is slang for "stairs"--only in plural--and doesn't explain why. The supporting quotations all refer to going upstairs, never down.
1671: Track up the dancers, go up the stayres.
1812 (a dictionary entry only)
1829: Come, track up the dancers, and dowse the glim.
1858: Come, my Hebe, track the dancers, that is, go up the stairs.
 
Nan said Up the spout, meaning pregnant. Caught short for needing the loo. The tilsyetty, the toilet.Three sheets to the wind for drunk. Ya daft aypeth. An aypeth was a halfpenny, an aypeth a sucks. Sweets. Giz a suck, give me a sweet.
Grandad said in the cart or apple cart for pregnant. A nifta for an alcoholic drink.My mate's Dublin granny used to say give yer granny a goozer. Meaning A kiss.
Nan would be talking of her neighbour's husband who used to drink the rent money and say, ees gone and blued it all again.
 
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