Just curious as to the usage radius of this term. I've known it since being a kid but I asked a colleague from Bolton and he'd never heard of it. I live in Salford.
I daren’t google it- sounds a bit Goatsy to me.
I have lived in South London and South Wales and never heard of it. In culinary terms, tripe is a bit of a Northern thing isn't it?
I’m from Bolton originally and I know and use that expression.
Never heard of it.
Sounds vile and Northern Southern.
Now wash your hands. 🙃😜
tripe is a bit of a Northern thing isn’t it?
All they eat apparently.....
Levelling up is desparately needed, although there is a risk the UK will run out of humous and quinoa......
Yes, in regular use round here - S Manchester.
I lived in Hyde (mass murder capital of the UK) as a kid and regularly ate tripe cooked in milk or with onions, it's disgusting! Pulling ones tripe out means doing a proper hard day's physical work, something alien South of Watford Gap.
me neither - but is it either:
Exposing the nether regions, maybe for the call of nature?
"There I was pulling my tripe out when PC Stone appeared around the corner and gave me a good hard one with his truncheon?"
from Jeeves and the Swollen Vestigals by P.G Wodehose.
Or espousing your bullshit?
"eee stop pulling your tripe out"
Dennis Skinner to Johnson at PMQ's yesterday.
I'm from wigan and now live south of manchester, I have never heard that expression
Not heard it said that way, but does it have a similar meaning to 'what a load of tripe' (ie talking rubbish) – I have heard that one many times growing up and living in North Yorkshire.
Guess it is similar to "working your guts out" which I have heard many times.
Be difficult to pull your tripe out unless you are a cow.
Formby west Lancashire and lived in Bolton
Yep common phrase
Be difficult to pull your tripe out unless you are a cow.
First amongst many problems there would be lack of opposable thumbs.
Depending where your tripe is.
I know binners keeps his in a chest freezer
Originally from Wigan, now in sunny Newton-le-Willows. Very familiar with the phrase.
Grew up in Ramsbottom - never heard that phrase before.
In Derbyshire we called things 'A load of tripe' if they are rubbish, but never heard of your saying.
Chesire. Yep, I am familiar with that. Probably used by my Grandad who had all kinds of weird vernacular.
Tripe - Yucky stuff, but if anyone's interested theres two types. A smooth type and 'apparently' a better rough version, dependent on which bit of the stomach it comes from. the rough type is kind of bristly, I think where food is broken up. Either way not something I'd ever even want to try.
Tripe is offaly good.
Hertfordshire/London but university up north in Lancaster.
Never heard it, sounds like it'd be awkward, uncomfortable, and leave a stain.
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I did laugh out loud!
Common parlance for Tory MPs I'd say....
North Derbyshire here and yes, familiar with that one.
From Bury.
I am familiar with the expression.
Work in Liverpool and have heard it used often, usually towards a lazy bugger.
"Look I'm pulling my tripe out here and your sat on your ring doing F all"
Yes I'm aware of it and I'm from Yorkshire. I think I heard it through cycling however.
East Lancashire, probably 30 miles North of your Salford, mostly raised by my grandparents. I have several books on Lanky dialect and I've never heard of that one.
I know what tripe is of course, they used to buy it every week. 🤢🤮
Towing ones bag out in Barnsley, as in
"Am towing mi bag art".
Hmmm. First time I went to Barnsley, I visited a pub where somebody had reversed into a urinal and laid a significant cable on the pineapple cubes. Girthy bugger. In cross section, the equivalent electrical cable would be good for at least 600 Amps.
From Ireland, had to look up "Tripe". Sounds (and looks) vile.
Might start using the expression on work Teams calls to see the reactions 🙂
This forum never fails to provide an education.
“There I was pulling my tripe out when PC Stone appeared around the corner and gave me a good hard one with his truncheon?”
I did laugh out loud!
Me too!
Brought up in North Manchester and it was that common I thought it was a universal expression.Don't get me going about muffins.
Yep, grew up down south but been in Rossendale south of Burnley for 30 years, common phrase for me, don't know whether I first heard it before or after I arrived here.
Actually I think it's "Pulling one's tripes (PLURAL) out". Pretty much turning yourself inside out with the effort.
Yes, North East Derbshire here, very familiar with that expression in the fire service and mining communities... as well as jiggered on my jacksy...
Yes I live in burscough near ormskirk in west lancs and have heard and used this for years now
Born in Leicester, lived in Halifax and Leeds since I was 16 (now 45). Never heard it before.
Bury then Rossendale all my life, common phrase in our house from my dad who grafted all his life.
I think it is used in the context (I did anyway) “come and give me a hand I’m on the limit” or “why didn’t you help me?”
North Manchester too.
Yep, know it well. 🙂
See also blowin' smoke, bringing a lung up etc...
