• Favourite Proper Lancashire Sayings!!

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:32 pm**

Lancashire has always been a bedrock of colloquial sayings..what's your favourite and it's meaning?
Mine was one I heard in Accrington recently when an 80 year old colleague missed an easy golf putt from 2 feet...he exclaimed
" Well, F*k my tin hat"!
Says everything!

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:40 pm**

Accrington? You sure it wasn’t “well fk my tiny cat” ? I think that’s what the lads from Accy say in our local

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:49 pm**

'Followed the muck cart thinking it was a wedding'
(No idea what it meant).

'Giving it the Bacup look '
(Touching something that you are not supposed to)

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:51 pm**

Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:49 pm
'Followed the muck cart thinking it was a wedding'
(No idea what it meant).

'Giving it the Bacup look '
(Touching something that you are not supposed to)

You have to nail everything down in Bacup

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:57 pm**

Out for a night on the coits, which basically meant when you got home the door was locked and you spent the night on top of the outside toilet and coal dump and bin hole.

It’s cracking flags would also be a good one

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:00 pm**

"Don't come running to me when yer break yer leg", was a particular favourite of my Mother.

Another typical one would be started by myself asking " Mum what's for tea?" to which if the mood took her she'd reply "5hit with sugar on." Thankfully it never was.

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:18 pm**

Whats for tea "bread and iffit" ... thought this was just round here (Yarkshire) but my MiL used it (Padiham born and bred)

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:19 pm**

He’s a gate

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:26 pm**

Burnley 3 B@stards 0

Posted: **Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:51 pm**

Well I’ll go t’t’top of our stairs.

Holidays? We’re going to Kerbstone Edge.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:02 am**

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:51 pm
Well I’ll go t’t’top of our stairs.

Holidays? We’re going to Kerbstone Edge.

is it not foot of our stairs usually?

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:07 am**

He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel.

If your brains were made of gunpowder, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off.

Stop picking your nose - your head will cave in.
you'll take the lining out of your cap.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:20 am**

Couple my Dad always said to me growing up, and still does now:

“You’ve got more stuff than soft Mick”

“You’re standing there like cheese at four’pence”

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:27 am**

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:07 am
He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel.

If your brains were made of gunpowder, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off.

Stop picking your nose - your head will cave in.
you'll take the lining out of your cap.

Couldn’t stop a pig in a poke, was the saying round our way.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:13 am**

"If that happens...i'll stand t' drop o' york!
"You make my bloody feet ache"!

The old man.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:50 am**

Has anyonya anyonya?

It int int tin

Lerus gerus coits off

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:10 am**

Big do's and little do's.

Taking all things in consideration.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:39 am**

Oining (annoying)
He/she’s agate (he/she was saying)
Crackin’t flags

are three phrases I use that nobody outside of Burnley ever understands.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:40 am**

Malleys tackle wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:10 am
Big do's and little do's.

Taking all things in consideration.

My mum uses that to sum up most stories she tells.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:29 am**

Put wood in t'hole

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:42 am**

1 my mum used to say to me

‘Shut that door, I’m not heating the backstreet’

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:50 am**

Having moved to Kent at the age of 6 (54 years ago) I recognise a lot of these from my parents. They bought us a book called Lanky Spoken Here and my favourite one from that was “ ‘e were like a dog wi’ a tin dick”

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:03 am**

When I got in the house and there was no sign of me mam, I’d ask my dad where she was.

I suppose you all know the full answer, which I won’t write - but suffice to say she’d run off.

There was nowt in it tho, regardless whether one or two might suggest there were certain undertones.

Agate is one I use a lot, along with folk I know.

Champion is a word I use a bit that my grandad used a lot to describe his mood/health.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:09 am**

"You make a better door than a window" to your Mum when she stands in front of you when watching the TV

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:50 am**

If my mum couldn't find the words to describe a particular thing she'd always call it a "Doo Dah"

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:16 am**

Kets. (Pants)

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:15 am**

my own saying has always been : Iv been stood here like a dog with two dicks waiting.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:36 am**

Turtarutter - otherwise known as a TV remote control

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:38 am**

Put wood int th’oil

Close the door

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:00 pm**

Weaving bout weft.

this means when you are expected to to something, but havent the right tools to complete the task.
clearly originated in the mills.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:48 pm**

sidda, rovers geet licked agen

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:51 pm**

I won’t be a minute, “I’m just going to put my sandwiches up for tomorrow”

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:56 pm**

My Mum back in the 60s
"And don't get dirty"

Me 20 minutes later.

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Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:03 pm**

San fairy Ann

Which I think is meant to be ca ne fait rien

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:45 pm**

Oozes thissus?
Reyt as rain.
Sit thi darn an al dutthi a brew
He wer stuck inner like a rat up a drainpipe.
Pist as a puddin.
Nobbut a lad.
Shis all fur coyt an no knickers.
Up tert tripes in watter.
Al just av an arf.
Shi skens like a basket o whelks.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 3:58 pm**

Dinks wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:56 pm
My Mum back in the 60s
"And don't get dirty"

Me 20 minutes later.
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I thought Michael Sheen was Welsh

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:33 pm**

Hey Chobby, you're as black as our fire back.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:40 pm**

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:36 am
Turtarutter - otherwise known as a TV remote control

You made that one up

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:44 pm**

If you're reyt I know where there's an house full. Often said to me by me mam ....

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:49 pm**

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:03 pm
San fairy Ann

Which I think is meant to be ca ne fait rien

That must be from Le Lancashire!

Actually pretty general.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:54 pm**

Surely....

Nowt as Queen as folk

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:56 pm**

karatekid wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:19 pm
He’s a gate

Just sure i must have said that one back in the day , but still makes me laugh .

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:03 pm**

agreenwood wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:39 am
Oining (annoying)
He/she’s agate (he/she was saying)
Crackin’t flags

are three phrases I use that nobody outside of Burnley ever understands.

Sorry agreenwood, I'm an Accringtonian and I understand all 3.

What you skennin at?

What are you looking at?

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:03 pm**

Being a Yorkie, I would say quite a number of these also sound like 'Proper Yorkshire Sayings'.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:06 pm**

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:03 pm
Being a Yorkie, I would say quite a number of these also sound like 'Proper Yorkshire Sayings'.

What is it about Yorkshire men? They're the most narcissistic county, surely.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:08 pm**

2 Bee Holed wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:06 pm
What is it about Yorkshire men? They're the most narcissistic county, surely.

You ever been down south?

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:11 pm**

When I, a Yorkshireman, started working in Lancashire 40 years ago I kept hearing 'wellgood' and 'wellbad'. Had never heard those before.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:23 pm**

Choddy = chewing gum

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:24 pm**

You don't look at the mantlepiece when you are stoking the fire.

How widespread is that?

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:27 pm**

It's poking the fire Ian.

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