Colloquialisms

[Kent]

 ' Can't be Arsed ' see

http://chesterfieldonline.org/index.php/topic,455.0.html

 

[Fly]

 

[Scimitar]

I'm not gerrin it, tha can gerrit thissen.
Slighly off subject, but you know when you go in to any supermarket, and they have moved stuff to different parts of the store...
I once overheard a couple - the bloke couldn't find something, and told his wife, and she then pointed and said "its up down there!"

[Gerty Gumdrop]

Not sure how local "Black over Bill's Mother's"is. I've seen it listed as East Midlands but also Birmingham. Wondered what origin is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands_English

No idea, but I say it all the time   

[Pete]

When I asked my mum for something she'd reply, Amas free from money asa toadis from feathers...

[Slacker]

Norrerd Thattun

[Pete]

Another, when I was being, err "inquisitive", was windyerneckin

[Slacker]

erd thattun

[mycul]

Well!  I'll go to bottom of our stairs!
As bent as a butchers hook.
Fitter than a butcher's dog.
I've seen more fat on a butcher's pencil.

[Fly]

Up the wooden hill.
As bent as a 9 bob note.

[Slacker]

"foot of our stairs" is version I've heard

[Fly]

Yep. Foot of our stairs.
You rank lower than us. Upstairs Downstairs.

[Scimitar]

Didnt leave a skerrick on his plate (ie ate everything)

[Fly]

Got that much snap on his plate it needed gormers.

I think that's an old pit prase.
When your loading up a cart of scrap, you stick bits up vertical to make walls.
That way you can load more in. They were the 'gormers'.

[mycul]

If you saw a tall lass, we always used to say she had got legs up to her bum.