Odd Sayings

[Schrodinger's Zebra]

One of the old Northern UK sayings which Ms Petes has never been able to get a handle on is the one where women are referred to as (say) "Janet Smith that was" ie Smith was her maiden name. Simply can't get her head round it.

Makes sense to me

 

[PeteS]

Got to admit I just don't get this one.

In 'Last of the Summer Wine' Marina refers to Norman Clegg as 'Norman Clegg that was'.

As he is stood there, and clearly still is Norman Clegg, why does she use this ?

It's just a joke INT, Marina remembering him as he was before he got married.

 

[Frideswide]

Got to admit I just don't get this one.

In 'Last of the Summer Wine' Marina refers to Norman Clegg as 'Norman Clegg that was'.

As he is stood there, and clearly still is Norman Clegg, why does she use this ?

That's what's funny. She is using the phrase that applies to females and he's a chap.

 

[Dick Turpin]

Not so much an odd saying, but one that was heard often in my childhood home, especially when my Father was asked to do any chore by my Mother.

“I’M GOING UP THE PUB” he would cry at the top of his voice.

He would as well.

Obviously, being asked to close a cupboard door, or asked to turn the volume down of his Frank Sinatra LP was classed as a chore in 1970’s Britain.

The silly old sod

 

[tuco]

My father would call any sauce, ketchup or gravy 'jippo' , I have never heard anyone else use this expression.

 

[EnolaGaia]

My father would call any sauce, ketchup or gravy 'jippo' , I have never heard anyone else use this expression.

It's 20th century military slang, derived from "jipper" - a term which has a muddled provenance itself ...

https://english.stackexchange.com/q...f-the-military-slang-word-jippo-meaning-gravy

 

[tuco]

It's 20th century military slang, derived from "jipper" - a term which has a muddled provenance itself ...

https://english.stackexchange.com/q...f-the-military-slang-word-jippo-meaning-gravy

That would be it, he was in the British army during the 1950's. Just read the link and it mentions 'jollop' another word he used.

 

[Mythopoeika]

My father would call any sauce, ketchup or gravy 'jippo' , I have never heard anyone else use this expression.

My Mum often called it 'jollop'.
I sometimes use that term myself.

 

[ravensocks]

I was watching a YouTube computer channel (Explaining Computers) and the subject was ways of applying an instruction.
The guy doing the video said 'There is more than one way to cook a cat'.

But we always said 'there is more than one way to skin a cat'.

Which one do you recognize as being the norm ?

It wouldn't be a comedy saying mash up, would it? A la 'the world's your lobster'.

I sometimes say thats a whole different bucket of kittens for kettles of fish- but it's just this moment dawned on me how unpleasant that actually is, especially when considering horror stories of what happens to unwanted kittens. I never made the connection, and being a cat lover had no desire to. How strange

 

[Mythopoeika]

It wouldn't be a comedy saying mash up, would it? A la 'the world's your lobster'.

A friend of mine says that occasionally.
He also says 'Abyssinia' when saying goodbye.

 

[Ermintruder]

Do any other forum members use the curious word "glom", in the sense of 'to obtain via unofficial means'? (well, very-nearly stealing).

It's become rather rare, recently. I >sometimes< utilised the word years ago, but often used to hear it in certain settings...on consideration, perhaps I haven't heard it used so far this millennium.

 

[EnolaGaia]

Do any other forum members use the curious word "glom", in the sense of 'to obtain via unofficial means'? (well, very-nearly stealing).
It's become rather rare, recently. I >sometimes< utilised the word years ago, but often used to hear it in certain settings...on consideration, perhaps I haven't heard it used so far this millennium.

I don't think I'd ever heard "glom" used in the traditional explicit meaning of "snatch" or "steal."

I used to hear it invoked in a more figurative sense along the lines of "copy" / "adopt" / "take for one's own."

It is this second, more figurative, sense that I always associated with the phrase "glom onto" (e.g., "to accept or adopt an idea or concept").

More often and more recently I (rarely but usually) hear it used in an entirely different sense to imply "mutually adhering" or "coalescing as a single mass from separate bits" - always phrased as "glom together."

This third sense may be an Americanism. I always presumed this usage derived separately from (e.g.) "agglomerate."

 

[Spudrick68]

I have friends here in Lancashire who say that they are going up to London, which has always irked me.

 

[Mungoman]

Did she also say 'Where's that to?'

They were prone to saying that in Adelaide, South Australia, when I was there, which was most of the 1970's.

People from SA are known as Cousin Jacks...which speaks volumes.

Dunt'it...

 

[Mungoman]

“Hopping the wag” – which I always believed to be a London expression, and which the old man accused me of many times as a lad when bunking off school.

The old Man – you been hopping the wag again boy
A young me – No Dad
The old Man - You sure..?
Me – Yeah ‘course Dad
The old Man – Then ‘ow comes you can get up to a 103 break at snooker, you’re only 13 for Christ’s sake.
A young me – Erm.

It’s because I spent most of my teenage years hopping the wag in the local snooker hall, when I should have been in class

We said 'Wagging it' down here in the antipodes.

Which, once again, speaks volumes to me...

 

[pandacracker]

"I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking"

From my father if he knew or did something we thought he didn't/couldn't.

 

[escargot]

We said 'Wagging it' down here in the antipodes.

Which, once again, speaks volumes to me...

I've heard Scousers say 'wagging' school.