Have you heard of these sayings ?

[lazarus]

If my Mother found our house in a mess she would say " this is a right pleck" I was told today that pleck came from a Dutch word meaning basic or plain.

[JOHN HABS]

Remembering things my grandma use to say..................

Have you heard of these:

 

San Pisall.........meaning: to strike someone.

 

Soft brasened........meaning: being cheeky in either the way younger people address the older generation / or in the way they conduct themselves.

[Texas]

Getting the silent treatment in the morning, 'Awreet love? Silence. 'Ave y'got monk on'?

[Ontarian1981]

As a youngster, new to the workforce, I used to hear a lot of weird and sometimes funny phrases. One I remember, and I heard it more than once was ''put thee hat back on thi er sackin towd uns"

[fatrajah]

Referring to some unusual or strange object, people used to say "We had one of them but the wheel fell off".

[DUFFEMS]

When looking for something lost in the home the reply was usually "it's in a bottle in t'cupboard" or "up shah's <removed> on t' second shelf".

Edited August 6, 2018 by nikki-red

[Odie]

Itrained as a gymnast from an early age and was always practising in our garden,my mum worried by some of my antics and shouted"don't come running to me when you break both your legs" and if she slapped us she always said"do you want another one"

[Odie]

thas as thin as a satdi chicken,my dad used it

 

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my dad used to say "stop pickin tha noo us,the eared ul cave in"

 

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the satdi chicken or shillin chickin come about because when the market closed on a satdi they slod the leftover ones cheap,all the best ones had gone and only the scraggy thin ones were left and only cost a shilling

 

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my late brother had a book of Yorkshire Bible Stories, it was all written in broad yorkshire dialect and was hilarious,don't know what happened to it, has anyone else ever seen one?

[Albert smith]

"Whats for tea mam" "three runs at cupboard door". still don't know what she meant.

[Jim Hardie]

"Whats for tea mam" "three runs at cupboard door". still don't know what she meant.

 

At our house it was "a run roundt' kitchen table and a kick ont' cellar dooer."