hilldweller Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 He'd follow a Muck Cart and think it was a Wedding. He doesn't know if he's on this Earth or Fuller's. Where's tha bin, hast ta been round the back o' Fosters ? Discuss HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I can remember my Mother commenting on certain people who lived on the Manor who's homes were not to clean or tidy, her comment was " Her house is a right pleck" on remembering this "Pleck" word only recently, I researched it and it's the name of a small field, could it have been a dumping area for unused farming or household goods. My father also shouted out when my sisters were having a difference of opinion " Put a sock in it" referring to the old gramophones with the large horn for the sound which a very rough loud sound emitted from it, so a piece of material or a SOCK was put inside the the megaphone shaped horn, this cut down the tinny sound and gave it a bit of tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 My aunt likes saying when there is a storm brewing "It's black over Bill's mothers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyn 1 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 'tanner short of a shilling' for someone a bit slow. Oh and 'if she fell in a bucket of s**t she'd come out smelling o' roses' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 'tanner short of a shilling' for someone a bit slow. Oh and 'if she fell in a bucket of s**t she'd come out smelling o' roses' "tanner short of a shilling'" Or in other words 'Not a full shilling", or, 'eleven pence ha'penny'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 'As daft as a brush', how can a brush be daft? Wonder how that saying came about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 " Get thi rags on" Meaning "put on the clothes you will need to go out". I think it comes from the steelworks where they'd wrap damp rags round their legs before pouring steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 " Get thi rags on" Meaning "put on the clothes you will need to go out". I think it comes from the steelworks where they'd wrap damp rags round their legs before pouring steel. Not necessarily, probably came from 'glad rags'. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/glad+rags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 'As daft as a brush', how can a brush be daft? Wonder how that saying came about? It seems to be unknown, but there are several explanations. The most common being from boys who went up chimneys, falls might cause head injurious and of course Chimney Sweeps used brushes. That's my favourite anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Asylums were often made with curved driveways to them. Hence the expression "going round the bend". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 'As daft as a brush', how can a brush be daft? Wonder how that saying came about? I've always thought the correct saying was as "as soft as a brush" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I've always thought the correct saying was as "as soft as a brush" That would be a variant of it rather than a correct saying. It would also fit in better with one of the suggested origins of the saying. Which is that it comes from the Fox's tail. As in Basil Brush!!! hee hee!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 'As daft as a brush', how can a brush be daft? Wonder how that saying came about? I often wondered about this one and asked the same question. Looks like thas lost a bob and found a tanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 My father also shouted out when my sisters were having a difference of opinion " Put a sock in it" referring to the old gramophones with the large horn for the sound which a very rough loud sound emitted from it, so a piece of material or a SOCK was put inside the the megaphone shaped horn, this cut down the tinny sound and gave it a bit of tone. More than fifty years ago I was "volunteered" to join the school brass band. Because of my problems with my "embouchure" ( I've waited years to use that word again ), I was given the e flat bass to play (tuba). (Big mouthpiece to suit a big mouth ! ). Every Friday afternoon I was seen making a nuisance of myself dragging the damn thing onto the number 14 bus to Malin Bridge and in the reverse direction on Monday Morning. I was banished to my attic bedroom to practice. I didn't put a sock in it, but a pair of flannel pyjamas and a woollen dressing gown. The neighbours still complained though, not so much at my playing but more about the limited repertoire of things that can be played on a solo tuba. "Midnight in Moscow anyone". HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 A favourite expression was ..." He's as bent as a nine bob note"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 I know them only as much as " their cat peed on our garden " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 Where's tha bin, hast ta been round the back o' Fosters ? Discuss HD "I've been round the back of Fosters" was the universal reply in our family to a young Hilldweller's questions about an older persons recent whereabouts. Some years ago the late historian J. Edward Vickers told a meeting I attended, that the "back of Fosters" refered to the less than solubrious stables and outbuildings behind the original Fosters store before it's reconstruction with the rebuilding of High Street / Fargate. According to him it's where "ladies of the night" used to take their clients. I don't think that's what my answerers had in mind though, at least I hope not.. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 I know them only as much as " their cat peed on our garden " Or in our family, 'up our entry'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Taking a rest or sat down doing nothing, ah well "This won't get the baby a new bonnet". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 My wife, who came originally from the Derbyshire Dales, but has lived in Sheffield for sixty years, is fond of quoting life improving little rhymes from her childhood. Her favourite is " Where there is work for me to do, sooner started sooner through " Of course when she quotes this I counter it with my version. " Where there is work for me to do, I'm off to the pub for a pint or two ". Not keen on humour, my wife ! HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barbara M Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 " Ooo waree we , waree we is sen ? " was a favorite enquiry of my grandmothers when I told her I had seen an old friend of hers .....unsure of the spelling !!! Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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