Know any good regional/national expressions?

[swee'pea99]

A friend in New Zealand just responded to my Facebook Happy Birthday with 'Just got home from dinner and I'm as full as a fat boys sock.'

Brilliant!

Are there any expressions you & yours use that wouldn't be used by people elsewhere?

 

[Slioch]

"Time to blow the froth off a cold one?" - An Aussie mate enquiring if it was time to have a beer.

His other favourite was "Jeez, look at the mounds on that" in reference to well endowed young ladies.

 

[ianrauk]

"Time to blow the froth off a cold one?" - An Aussie mate enquiring if it was time to have a beer.

His other favourite was "Jeez, look at the mounds on that" in reference to well endowed young ladies.

Also heard that in the USA.

 

[John the Monkey]

I believe, in Germany, they refer to "Train Station German", being that species of conversational German known only to tourists.

There's also the wonderful Polish idiom "If it's not my circus, they aren't my monkeys."

 

[John the Monkey]

Apparently, the literal translation of "Stop annoying me!" in colloquial Armenian is "Stop Ironing my Head!"

Another nice one featuring monkeys "Even monkeys fall from trees" (meaning that even an expert can be wrong) from Japanese.

 

[Markymark]

I've got a good one from us southerners that the northern folk just won't get...

Just got home from work.

 

[Slioch]

I've got a good one from us southerners that the northern folk just won't get...

Just got home from work.

Interesting to note you posted this at around 10:45am. Obviously a northerner wouldn't say this until after 5:00pm.

 

[Fnaar]

'Six and two threes'... I hear this (occasionally) in Newcastle/Northumberland, where I myself would probably say 'half a dozen of one, half a dozen of the other'. (Admittedly this is not an everyday occurrence, but you get my point, I hope).

 

[Mireystock]

Not an expression as such, but a word....Nesh, meaning to feel the cold.
"He's nesh". From south west midlands, Gloucs, Herefordshire and Worcestershire areas.

 

[Markymark]

Interesting to note you posted this at around 10:45am. Obviously a northerner wouldn't say this until after 5:00pm.

Is that when they get up?

 

[Slioch]

Here's one from my time in Glasgow - "Away and boil yer heid".

 

[Glow worm]

One from the crazy world of Norfolk bird watching- "if you see a rook on its own it's a crow and if you see a group of crows they're rooks'. Silly but quite accurate!
Another one from these parts - "it's raining over Will's mother's", meaning it's raining over there but not here. No one can remember who Will or his mother were though.

 

[Chromatic]

'Six and two threes'... I hear this (occasionally) in Newcastle/Northumberland, where I myself would probably say 'half a dozen of one, half a dozen of the other'. (Admittedly this is not an everyday occurrence, but you get my point, I hope).

Six of one, half a dozen of the other round here.

 

[Scoosh]

Here's one from my time in Glasgow - "Away hame and boil yer heid".

Missed out the important bit !

 

[fimm]

I used to hear "It's black over Bill's mother's" (meaning it looks like nasty weather is coming) in Birmingham.
I also say "six and two threes" having grown up in southern Northumberland.