General Chat

Heavens to Murgatroyd", or "Heavens to Betsy" used to be common exclamations that are not heard anymore...

Also, at school in cooking classes we used to measure out the milk in gills - never heard this measurement anywhere else since. Also, the tall linen cupboard at my mother's house was called the linen "press"........

Dad used to say he was "making the door" and "making the fire"

First meant he was locking up for the night

The second meant he was building up the fire.


she's full of herself, or he's full of himself .................. conceited


We (OH and I) still occasionally say that one's "mutton dressed as lamb" ...... older woman wearing clothes and make-up far too young for her.


We used to say "gobbledy gook"

And I'm going doolally

Lol Tootyfruity, I'm fluent in gobbledgook, and Gibberish.

And I've not heard gobbledgook for ages

We had ballyann day. The day before pay day

My Mum used to say "night night, sleep tight, dont let the bedbugs bite.
When she put us to bed when we were young:)

Teresa

and brand new clothes for Whit Sunday


it was goody goody gumdrops


We still occasionally say "I have had /have you had an ample sufficiency"


If I asked Mum or my grandmother what there was for supper ............ a run and a jump up the pantry door


a ginnel .... a passageway between two houses, often with an archway. The oldsters used to say "Go thru t'ginnel and round t'back"


Some men used to say "going to see a man about a dog" if they wanted to find a loo while out or at the pub

Yes I agree with that Susan...... I still feel guilty wearing some new clothes just for the sake of it.-JLe

Sunday best, clothes which were kept neat and tidy for wearing to church visiting family etc.

lawks a mussy me (sp?)

Jane, just come back after watching the Road to Coronation Street programme. Harold Hare had his own comic in the 50s. It was for little kids & you could join the Harold Hare club & they sent you a "gold" badge of his head. I had that badge for years. I suppose it could have been goody goody gumdrops, it was along time ago & the old brainbox ain't what it used to be.

Diane was it not Goody Goody Gumdrops?lol I never heard of Harold Hare.

When I was a nipper I used to get the Harold Hare comic & he always said goody gumdrops - you don't hear that any more. Whatever happened to Harold Hare?

I haven't heard 'The Back of Beyond ' for yonks lol

If my youngest sees a horse she shouts "hold your osses" got that one from Grandad lol.

My Mum used to say

A change is as good as a rest

going to bed was up the woodenhill

she talked the hind legs of a donkey

There were a lot more sayings that my mum used to say but i cant remember them at the moment .
Hazelx

Just bending to pick something up with an aching back and out popped

"heckythump" :))

Every time my son in law visits he is convinced we make up new words for his benefit with the result 'The Yorkshire Dictionary' is kept out until he goes home. I wouldn't say that I use any Yorkshire words but he has proved otherwise.-JLe

and my grandfather would always say when he had finished his meal that he had had "ample sufficiency"

His umbrella was a gamp - I had forgotten that.


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