Family expressions that you never heard anywhere else.......

From my elder sister...."you know what thought did"!
Well we lost her in 2012 and I never did find out what she meant.

My dad "I'm going to see a man about a dog"!
At first I thought he was getting one, but later took it to mean "mind your own business".
Only recently did the penny drop.

My mum, when over at mine for some decent grub, would say "It's been very nice so far"!

My late wife's uncle was always saying "Ee I'm rigwelted"!
Never heard that expression ever from anyone else ever.

From my good self "sod everything" which is on my mouse mat here, and my coffee cup courtesy of my Sydney daughter and "Moonpig"

Sorry I made a right ******* mess of that!

Wish we had an edit button, like every other forum that I use.

AP my old boss used to say "you know what thought did" and when he was asked to expand he used to say "he thought he'd sh1t himself, and when he looked he had" - as if that gave any credence to the line?

I thought it might be something like "he thought he did but he didn't"!

Will never know what she meant.

When I was a youngster, whenever we had visitors to our house my father would nearly always say "thank your mother for the rabbit" as they were leaving. Even though no one ever came bearing a rabbit.

My mother when we were children "You're laughing now, you'll be crying in a minute"
Not a threat, just commenting not to be too up when things are going your way, and vice versa.

I don't know if it's origins are correct but my old man used to say:

"You know what thought did?" if I'd said "I thought". And when I asked "what?" he said, "it followed a shiit cart and thought it was a wedding."

And when the question of what might happen in the future with the big question of "If" rearing it's head he used to say, "If shiit were currant pudding we would all have a good feed."

Diven't gizzen thi sen! To mean "don't sup yer ale too quickly!"

As to "Rigwelted", a Riggwelter is Yorkshire dialect for a sheep that has fallen onto its back and can't right itself.

re the Yorkshire sayings, in my teens I had a mate whose family had moved from Barnsley down to London.
When his nan came down to visit she'd often say to him he was "like a rail out" or something like that, and would also call him a "crate egg" as a form of abuse. I asked him what they were all about and he didn't have a clue.

''... as long as you've got a hole in your 'he'arse''.. meaning 'never' of course.

when I was very young and being a bit of a monkey, my late gran used to say I had the devil on my back.

it wont suck itself.

my dad was a lollipop salesman.

My Grandma used to say to me "Suigh síos agus fan socair." Which basically means sit down and shut up. She was a tough old biddy that one.

he'd drink it through a sh1tey cloot

As kids if we did something wrong The Old Dear would threaten to " knock you into the middle of next week ".

When my dad was really angry he would say "I'll stand the drop of York".

^ This meant he would go to be hung at the gallows at York. The context I used to hear it in was 'If that's true, I'll stand the drop of York'.

How about this one..

Tha can keep thi theeing and tharring to them as thee and tharrs thee.

Crate would be colloquial for basket and egg for head so a basket head (basket case).

Not a my family thing but I heard...... "I'll go to the foot of our stairs"

"Well, you wouldn't find Brown's cow in there now, would you" - is one from Mrs Strikes' (Irish) family; used to admonish teenagers who can't find something in their untidy bedrooms.

Eeternaloptimist 20 May 14 20:06

I don't know if it's origins are correct but my old man used to say:

"You know what thought did?" if I'd said "I thought". And when I asked "what?" he said, "it followed a shiit cart and thought it was a wedding."


That was a very common saying in The Potteries in the 70s, except it was 'muck cart'.

One used in my house when I was a kid and I asked what was for dinner was: "A kick at the pantry door and a run round the table leg".

It never made me laugh. I wanted my snapping!

Whenever there is mention of a bin be it in conversation, on TV or on the wireless ... all members of my family (myself included) are genetically programmed to inquire "Is that the bin that Rin Tin Tin sh*t in?"

I know of Rin Tin Tin but have no clue as to how and where this saying originated.