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Bob Dale
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^ I always heard - you don't know shit from shinola - mostly from easterners or veterans
'you got moxie kid.' Moxie : spunk ,determination, -- from the soda , if you can drink one and want a second ; ' 'Mind your p's and q's ' -- be on your best behavior ''Sunday go to meeting(outfit) " -- your best clothes , even my non- church attending aunts and uncles would refer to dress clothes of any spade as 'Sunday go to meeting.' 'That's a horse of a different color' -- that's a different thing entirely, that won't do 'That dog won't hunt.' -- you're full of shit , you're caught You're barking up the wrong tree - I don't care Dont take any wooden nickels - be prudent ' Cruise the poo ' -- this one is very specific to Shawnee, OK . The main drag in town is 'Kickapoo' and the teenagers cruise it on Fridays and Saturdays . I worked at a summer camp near there and early into my first year had a , rather attractive girl I'd been eying me if I wanted to cruise the poo with her and some of her girlfriends -- needless to say my 13 year old face turned 80 shades of red ... And then a few hours later I sat in a parking lot while they smoked and we ate at Sonic . |
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Dr_Heech
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"It's better than a slap round the face with a wet fish" - It's better than nothing. "You cant polish a turd" - That's the best you're going to make of it, so don't waste any more time. "Are you talking to me, or you chewing a brick?" - Please be clear about what you are trying to convey, as I'm finding it difficult to understand you. |
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Double 0 Soul
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You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear = If your materials are cheap, your finished product will be shit.
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Flash
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"if your granny had balls she'd have been your granda" no idea what it means but remember my dad's old mate Fred always said it
Edit .... found an explanation
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Bob Dale
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"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas."
'When God said brains they heard trains , and got upset because they weren't going anywhere." |
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Maynard Fried-San
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Continuing the theme..,
"If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers". |
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Double 0 Soul
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Thats a new one for me^
I was born after decimalisation (hard to believe i know) but i remember as a young'un going to the village shops with my grandparents and they were still struggling to make the transition almost 10years later. I would be in the butchers shop having to count out the dosh from my nan's purse. They wasn't even that old, possibly late 60,s and they lived a further 17 years. Hard to believe in the days of foreign travel where you make the transition to another currency in just a few days. Dosh terms from back when. Nicker = Pound note Bob = Shilling Tanner = Six penny piece Threpney bit (Thrupence) = Three pence piece A'penie = Half penny They saved their pre-decimal currency for years later expecting it to one day revert back. "It'll never work" |
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Mr Black
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Bit of hows yer father!= Slap & tickle
Gertcha cow son. = Get out of it, you son of a cow. (I never thought anyone other than Chas n Dave said this, but I heard it muttered by an old east-end gent a while back) |
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Maynard Fried-San
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As a kid growing up in the East End, my aunt (who, incidentally has a fantastic comedy name) used to say "Gertcha" to me all the time.
"Not the full shilling", was often directed at anyone with learning difficulties or mental health problems. Pre-PC and the era of 'understanding'. |
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oomslokop
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this is not english (does it have to be english?) but in batavia (colonial tempo doeloe name for jakarta) the indos (halfbloods/mestizo) used to say "let's write a letter in english" and make a writing gesture with their hands when they wanted to take an afternoon nap.
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