Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Not expressed in words, but inferred from behaviour:
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Expressions your mum and dad used to use ...
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raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
What becomes of the broken hearted
Paid a Penny and only Farted
Tribansman
Veteran
(having just farted) Get out and walk you bugger, I've carried you too long 
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I think it meant a loaf in the middle and everyone just fights over it.
But it also sounds like bread and pullet, ie a small chicken. So it worked on a couple of levels.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Our walls were so thin we could drip our bread in next doors gravy.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
'take your coat off, or you won't feel the benefit'
Tribansman
Veteran
You're a jack rabbit (keep getting up and down)
Like a cat on a hot tin roof (ditto)
You've got lice dropping off you (lazy/slow)
Like a cat on a hot tin roof (ditto)
You've got lice dropping off you (lazy/slow)
- Location
- London
Gran again
"there's nowt so queer as folk"
Have always thought this a nice humane tolerant phrase which some in today's often divided/tribal/outrage fuelled/identity politics world would do well to remember.
Later was adopted for a TV gay drama series I think - "Queer as Folk" - never saw it though.
"there's nowt so queer as folk"
Have always thought this a nice humane tolerant phrase which some in today's often divided/tribal/outrage fuelled/identity politics world would do well to remember.
Later was adopted for a TV gay drama series I think - "Queer as Folk" - never saw it though.
fullfathom5
Active Member
You're like a pea on a red hot shovel (if we were fidgeting)
Tell the truth and shame the devil (if Mum thought we were telling lies)
Blessed is he who expecteth nothing (if we were pestering Mum to buy us something)
When I was your age we made our own fun (if we were complaining about being bored)
Were you born in a barn? (if we left a door open)
Tell the truth and shame the devil (if Mum thought we were telling lies)
Blessed is he who expecteth nothing (if we were pestering Mum to buy us something)
When I was your age we made our own fun (if we were complaining about being bored)
Were you born in a barn? (if we left a door open)
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
"You make a better door than a window" when one of us stood in front of the TV.
- Location
- London
gran again
"S/he's bad with her/his nerves" sometimes followed by a certain silence.
Never really understood it, sometimes wondered if it was related to the miraculous Nervo powder/tonic or whatever which I dimly remember an old sign for on Blackpool North Pier - seemed to be able cure anything.
Later I realised that it was almost certainly an old euphemism for depression, before folks were allowed to be depressed.
"S/he's bad with her/his nerves" sometimes followed by a certain silence.
Never really understood it, sometimes wondered if it was related to the miraculous Nervo powder/tonic or whatever which I dimly remember an old sign for on Blackpool North Pier - seemed to be able cure anything.
Later I realised that it was almost certainly an old euphemism for depression, before folks were allowed to be depressed.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Elvis has left the building
Essentially the show (such as a playground fight) is over and you can go home / back to your classroom etc.
Essentially the show (such as a playground fight) is over and you can go home / back to your classroom etc.
- Location
- London
another one from the gran
"what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
I understood as a kid what the meaning was, particularly as she would say it with a sort of yoyful assertion, but somehow the words seem to be the wrong way round.
(I think I had the idea that a gander was a female "goose")
"what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
I understood as a kid what the meaning was, particularly as she would say it with a sort of yoyful assertion, but somehow the words seem to be the wrong way round.
(I think I had the idea that a gander was a female "goose")
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
I should have had pigs, then I could have eaten you
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
can't say that in Florida anymore
