Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
I'm sure my Mam thought I was a contortionist! "Will ye look at that dirt on the back of yer neck!"
My dad used to say that. He said it once and someone asked him who Bill was and where did he live?
If he caught us swearing he used to say that he knew language that would make our hair curl. He didn't. If my mum caught us swearing she would say that she'd was our mouths out with soap.
If I trapped my finger and got a blood blister it was always a " black man's pinch"
Very p.c.
I once used the expresson "It was a storm in a tea-cup" to an American and he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
Not sure if that's old or if people still use it.
I heard a couple of boobs having an argument once, but it was just a storm in a D-cup.I once used the expresson "It was a storm in a tea-cup" to an American and he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
Not sure if that's old or if people still use it.
I heard a relatively young person use this term not so long ago, but my parents used it all the time.If I trapped my finger and got a blood blister it was always a " black man's pinch"
Very p.c.
Someone once said it was a reference to Shakespeare but I don't believe it.
1. Bill's mother lived damn near the same place as Bill, so why not just say Bill's?
2. It seems to have been quite well used further afield so god knows how they could see that far.
I’m sure Geoff Hurst used that line when he was a World Cup pundit years agoJesus...there were some proper bad ones like that. Instead of saying the more PC "Needle ina Haystack"
"Nig**r in the woodpile"
Mad!
This may be an American one.
When in a difficult situation, you are "Up Shit Creek without a paddle".
Anyone hear that in the UK?
My mother's version was "I'll make you wish you'd never been born".Another one from my dad, "I'll wipe that smile off your face".
That's a good one.My Gran used to say “you’ve got to eat a little bit of dirt before you die” generally after picking food off the floor and putting it in her mouth while winking. I’d stand there in disbelief watching her eat a hairy boiled sweet or a roast potato dropped in the muck and dust of a thick carpet.
I guess this was in the days before the 5 second rule on food that had landed on the floor.
I always tell my kids the same, but I draw the line at a crisp dropped in dog mess. Let it be, let it be. There’s plenty more crisps in the sea.
You beat me to it. My dad would say " into the middle of next week." He was more specific about exactly when .Another thing my father would say if we did something really bad:
"Do that again and I'll knock you into next week".
I'm sure my Mam thought I was a contortionist! "Will ye look at that dirt on the back of yer neck!"
My mother said that to us when we were little when it was bedtime.get up the wooden hill is one I used to hear a lot.
I remember the saying as "Up the Wooden Hill and down Sheet Lane."My mother said that to us when we were little when it was bedtime.
Our bedrooms were upstarirs.
Actually what she used to say to us is "up the wooden hill to bye bye land".
I think that must be one of my ealiest memories because I remember she was carrying me when she said it.
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