Know any good regional/national expressions?

[machew]

Birmingham screwdriver or Glasgow socket set

 

[DRM]

Packed lunch in Yorkshire Is " snap " or " bait " in the Northeast and North Yorkshire

 

[DRM]

Birmingham screwdriver or Glasgow socket set

Manchester Screwdriver round here, also if someone is suitable for manual Labour they are said to be strong in't arm and thick in't head

 

[Brandane]

smoko

That was the expression used in the Merchant Navy!

At work Tim uses the word "dockey". I've read somewhere that in days of old your employer would dock your pay for the time you were drinking tea.

Days of old? It is still happening in the modern age of the haulage industry! Most companies dock drivers 45 minutes each shift, as it is a legal requirement to take a 45 minute break .

 

[uphillstruggler]

Milk and beans - meaning Milton Keynes.

Arse like the Japanese flag. Maybe after a particularly hot curry

Give them the Spanish archer - el bow.

 

[jefmcg]

That was the expression used in the Merchant Navy!

There's a lot of australian expressions that have a British Navy origin.

Grog, for one

 

[rualexander]

"Foos yer doos?"

Aberdeen(shire) way of asking "how are you?"
Literally, "how are your doves(pigeons)?"

 

[summerdays]

Where's it too?

Where's that to?

(Despite not being from here it's one I have occasionally used myself)

 

[Scoosh]

Packed lunch in Yorkshire Is " snap " or " bait " in the Northeast and North Yorkshire

A 'piece' in Scotland, though more correctly a 'jeelie piece' is a jam sandwich. If arranging a gathering over lunchtime, you'd say 'Bring a piece' = bring a packed lunch.

 

[Wafer]

Where's that to?

(Despite not being from here it's one I have occasionally used myself)

I think the middle word is interchangable Where's summerdays to? is an acceptable use of the form
Winds my fiance up something chronic, she says it makes no sense, which doesn't make sense to me, it makes perfect sense.

 

[Brains]

" 'Taint Zackly " is the Cornish equivalent of "A sandwich sort of the picnic" or a "Tinny short of the six-pack" or "Not the sharpest tool in the box" or "Essen" (E.S.N., Educationally Sub Normal, a term used in pre-PC times)

 

[slowmotion]

Stupid: "He doesn't know his arse from his elbow".

 

[AndyRM]

You're no as green as you're cabbage looking.

 

[Bay Runner]

Two's up = a request to share something with your oppo (Royal Navy - oppo = friend)
e.g. Two's up on your newspaper mate.

There We Are Then = A method of ending a conversation with somebody you may dislike (South Wales)

 

[classic33]

Thassen, thissen yerssen & not forgettin Missen

Ginnel, narrow alleyway between buildings.