Mine is "as dodgy as a bottle of chips". I have no idea where I got it from.
"Choddy" for chewing gum
samuri - it's chuddy, surely ?
(I'm told it's phonetically the same as the word for knickers in some indian language. caused a bit of a stir in the office on one occasion asking for chuddy 😳 )
my mum says "I'll swing for you !" from time to time - sounds like it might mean I'd be hanged for you, rather than I'll punch you but she got it from her mum and ...
I talk an inordinate amount of bollocks (quiet at the back) but I'm fairly sure I know where I've picked up most of it. It amuses me when other people catch them.
Sayings are a bit like STDs, really.
The word beginning with "W" that rhymes with "bankers".
I got its specific use from a eulogy read by a daughter about her father. Made the vicar sit up!
"As bent as a nine-bob note".
"Worse things happen at sea"
Know what they mean but not where they come from.
"Pure Brass Affronted"
As of the moment I press the 'send post' button it'll be the first and probably only place that those three words appear in that order anywhere on the internet. But its exclaimed frequently in my house.
"This is no way to run a railroad"
"when it comes, I won't even notice. I'll be too busy looking good"
People say I'm heading for a fall with that attitude. Meh...
Worry when your'e dead
"trouble at the mill" when someone is obviously having a problem with something. Maybe its a lassie reference?
Meehaja - possible month python reference.......
Timeless
"when it comes, I won't even notice. I'll be too busy looking good"
I think that's a line from enter the dragon .
"Shit and coruption" no idea where that came from
CheesybeanZ - Member"when it comes, I won't even notice. I'll be too busy looking good"
I think that's a line from enter the dragon .
I think you may be right, from the Afro dude.
"I'm not as daft as I'm painted"
Dude
Gnarly
& I'm crap
spring to mind.
No idea on the first 2 but I think I can blame my dna for the last bit.
'pug' is another one. If you get a 3ft long stick and mould a piece of mud to the end inside a clenched fist you can flick it for miles (like those ball throwers dog walkers use). ~No idea where it came from but we used to spend hours with 'pug sticks' trying to injure each other by flinging bits of mud across a field when I was a kid.
"Ay up"
I'm not Northern.
Bent as a turks boot/dogs back leg.
Sweating like a fat girl in a cake shop.
Bum like a Morcambe bay prawn, when describing the horrible sensation of attempting to keep control of your bowels.
Sorry.
Favourite - It's like Karno's in here. But that came from Fred Karno's circus, many years ago.
Shaking like a shiteing dog.
Black over bill's mother's
On it like a tramp on chips.
It's not one I use but I don't really understand it?
"Kick or Kicked the bucket"
So what has dying got to do with a bucket?
"give it some welly"
I get what it means, just, why welly?
For years we've always referred to any farcical lack of organisation as '****ing chip shop!"
I have absolutely no idea why, or where it comes from.
'I'll have your guts for garters' has been popular with the womenfolk in my family for at least three generations.. Used exclusively to express displeasure with a child's behaviour..
I'm guessing they got it from Jack the Ripper.. 😯
"give it some welly"I get what it means, just, why welly?
My understanding is that it refers to Tractor drivers, who inevitably trundle along country lanes. The frustrated driver behind is thinking "I wish this tractor driver would push the accelerator as far as he can with his Wellington boot"
"Kick or Kicked the bucket"So what has dying got to do with a bucket?
its thought if could be to do with public executions - noose - stand on bucket - have bucket kicked out from under you.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kick_the_bucket
The OED describes as more plausible the archaic use of "bucket" as a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered. To kick the bucket, then, originally signified the pig's death throes;