05-01-2018, 02:06 AM
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Two of my Grandma's -"Hell's bells and spiders ankles!"
Naturally we had to go looking for spiders to check if they really had ankles.
"Would you look at the time - past 8'o'clock and not a child in the house washed"
Which used to really puzzle us as we were not allowed down to breakfast until we were washed !
05-01-2018, 07:48 AM
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Back in NZ, we would say 'rattle your dags' when telling someone to hurry up, or to get a move on.Dags being the dried excrement hanging from a sheep's rear end which supposedly rattled when they ran.
I never heard it though, as they were always shorn before they got that bad!
05-01-2018, 08:10 AM
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What's that got to do with my Knob.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLcpvs0XGZg
05-01-2018, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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Cockney's have many expressions, Put wood in't hole!!! Meaning close the door or you might be asked if you were born in a barn???
Oops edited to say just saw it's already been said
Another one, Go to the foot of our stairs
or sweet Fanny Adams
05-01-2018, 11:55 AM
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If my nan had a piece of cake with very little dried fruit in it she'd say they must have chucked them in from top of galley hill. That must have been a very local expression, she came from Hastings bexhill area.She had a few others wood in the door, empty vessel make most noise, Boredom is sign of a boring mind, want what you need not need what you want. Many others she was full of them.
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