sayings

[Morturn]

"I'll give yea a right good pasting" and "all kippers and custard" are a couple I have heard.

 

[Radiorails]

"Kippers and curtains" was what I heard an aunt say about some neighbours.

 

[mw0njm.]

my favorite saying is ."what do you reckon"

 

[Radiorails]

And Middle Wallop, which is home to the Army School of Flying.

Maurice

The history:

Middle Wallop Airfield History

When the Second World War began Middle Wallop was still under construction but by its end, the airfield had provided a major contribution to the defence of Britain and the liberation of Europe. Over the years the base has been used by the RAF, the USAAF,

www.airshowspresent.com

 

[Astoness]

"Kippers and curtains" was what I heard an aunt say about some neighbours.

yep kippers and curtains is what our nan and our mom used to say in fact i also say it

lyn

 

[Pedrocut]

Censored.....heard down the ale house...

If you aunt had had ????? She’d have bin your uncle.

 

[Astoness]

now here is one i have not heard for ages mom would often comment "shes a nosey cod" again i say it..has anyone else heard of this saying and i wonder where it came from

lyn

 

[jmadone]

now here is one i have not heard for ages mom would often comment "shes a nosey cod" again i say it..has anyone else heard of this saying and i wonder where it came from

lyn

Perhaps your Mom was being discreet and not swearing in front of the children. She may have substituted an S for a C in the last word?

 

[Morturn]

New dress and no.....

 

[mw0njm.]

 

[Pedrocut]

“A fourpenny one.”

 

[Robert Ensor (bob)]

“A fourpenny one.”

I was lucky enough to get a couple of those

 

[mw0njm.]

"Legging it". Just been listening to the radio and there was a short piece on "legging" i.e. when barges were "legged" through the tunnels. The horse would be walked over the tunnel and the bargemen/women would push the barge through the tunnel by lying on their backs and using their feet to push against the tunnel roof and so move the barge along. I'd already heard of the way in which barges were taken through tunnels, but hadn't realised it was called "legging it". Viv.

also means To run away. . .scarper

 

[Bob Davis]

"Legging it". Just been listening to the radio and there was a short piece on "legging" i.e. when barges were "legged" through the tunnels. The horse would be walked over the tunnel and the bargemen/women would push the barge through the tunnel by lying on their backs and using their feet to push against the tunnel roof and so move the barge along. I'd already heard of the way in which barges were taken through tunnels, but hadn't realised it was called "legging it". Viv.

Just read this, sometimes on the Dudley Canal where they do the trips into the old Dudley tunnel, they will offer you the opportunity to leg the boat.

Bob

 

[mw0njm.]

Red sky in the morning shepherds warning...... the sky looks angry this morning.

 

[Radiorails]

That's the landlubbers saying, here the word 'shepherd' is replaced by ''sailor's'.

 

[mw0njm.]

That's the landlubbers saying, here the word 'shepherd' is replaced by ''sailor's'.

The concept of "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning" first appears in the Bible in the book of Matthew. It is an old weather saying often used at sunrise and sunset to signify the changing sky and was originally known to help the shepherds prepare for the next day's weather.

 

[mw0njm.]

Lubber is an old word (dating from the 14th century) meaning a clumsy or stupid person.1 This is its sense in the sailing term landlubber, which refers to an unseasoned sailor....... I am no sailor.i get seasick in a pedlo

 

[mw0njm.]

its raining cats and dogs

 

[Pedrocut]

Saying of the day?

“Batten down the hatches.”

 

[mw0njm.]

a stitch in time, saves 9.

 

[Pedrocut]

its raining cats and dogs View attachment 141337

I bought "Brewer's Phrase and Fable" for about a pound from the "Works" in Birmingham, around 1990.

Here is what he says about raining cats and dogs...

 

[mw0njm.]

I bought "Brewer's Phrase and Fable" for about a pound from the "Works" in Birmingham, around 1990.

Here is what he says about raining cats and dogs...
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[/QUOTE....well done pedro thanks.for that info.

 

[maypolebaz]

That's the landlubbers saying, here the word 'shepherd' is replaced by ''sailor's'.

My late first wife was from Denbigh and she always said "sailor's warning".

 

[mw0njm.]

some more.......Red sky at night and other weather lore - Met Offic

 

[Pedrocut]

“Penny smart, pound foolish.”

 

[mw0njm.]

in for a penny in for a pound

 

[mw0njm.]

Seeing Is Believing

 

[Eric Gibson]

A local saying here if it's dark and overcast but there is a break in the cloud is "Enough blue to patch a sailor's collar."

A rather rude one my dad used if someone was in a bad mood was "He's got his arse in his hand."

 

[Pedrocut]

`up the wooden hill` our Dad sent us to bed each night with these words.
And if our Mom wasnt in the house, and we asked where she was he would answer, `shes gone off with the bogey man` Jackie

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.