Know any good regional/national expressions?

[Spartak]

In Bristol to ask someone how they are .....

...... How bis ?

And one of my favourites ...

Babba = baby !

 

[PK99]

To have 'gone tits up' means its fallen over. the other variation is ' gone arse over tit'.
Both are widely used in the IT industry 'Dahn Sarf' to describe malfunctioning software and PC's

in the days of big boxes the in-house ibm phrase was "castors up"

 

[Andy_R]

How have we gone 7 pages and no one mentioned...

"It's a lazy wind today"

Meaning it's one that blows right through you to the bone, a chill northerly wind.

(My grannie used that one all the time and she was from south Wales).

Further explanation ( my Gran was a Northumbrian farmwife)..It's a lazy wind that goes through you, not around.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I haven't read all the previous posts so don't know if it's been done but my mum used to say "I were stood there like cheese at fourpence" quite a lot. I'd only heard her say it, till the other week when i heard someone queuing in a supermarket checkout say it.

 

[PK99]

Stop moitherin'!

 

[PK99]

I haven't read all the previous posts so don't know if it's been done but my mum used to say "I were stood there like cheese at fourpence" quite a lot. I'd only heard her say it, till the other week when i heard someone queuing in a supermarket checkout say it.

Mi mum, used to say that! A lancashire mill town expression from when cheese were threppence a pound

 

[Gravity Aided]

If a company has 'gone tits up' it means they are no longer trading. That's round here (Leicester)

Here as well, or the military for T.U., Tango-Uniform. Figure it has its roots in the agricultural.

 

[Gravity Aided]

"If good sense was dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose"

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

To have 'gone tits up' means its fallen over. the other variation is ' gone arse over tit'.
Both are widely used in the IT industry 'Dahn Sarf' to describe malfunctioning software and PC's

I work in IT as an senior it engineer/consultant but ironically that is not where I first came across the expression. It was working in accounting for the armed forces that I first came across that one! One of our dear old staff sergeants...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Further explanation ( my Gran was a Northumbrian farmwife)..It's a lazy wind that goes through you, not around.

That's right! Is forgotten the last bit (my gran used blows through you). My grannie died 4 years ago. Thank you.
Though how she came uk with it is beyond me, she was welsh born, (Bridgend/Swansea way) her family ancestor Bath/Bristol way and my grandfather Warrington/Hollins Green)...

 

[Katherine]

English-

I am
You are
They are
We are


Devon-

I'm
Youm
Theym
Weem

Salford-
I's
You's
They's
We's

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Stoke/Potteries thing...

'Goin' up 'anlee' translates to 'I'm going to Hanley'.
Can have variously duck or love on the end...

 

[Fnaar]

Dem rasclart bad bwoy gwan fi' mash up me yard.
Chipping Sodbury.

 

[Oldbloke]

2 that my East Londoner Mum uses...

Keep yer 'air on. To somebody being stroppy
And
A joke's a joke missus, but keep your baby's bum off the haddocks.--for someone trying to be funny and failing

 

[Silver Fox]

Jigger, Liverpool expression for back alley way.

Which reminds me of an old dear that rang the police to complain that someone had left a rusty bicycle up her back passage .