#45

This is quite a common Westcountry thing.

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#46

My parents refer to scrap paper as ‘gash paper’. I don’t have the heart to tell them.

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#47

Parental visit day 2: my mum has just corrected my dad and said that oregano is in fact what Japanese people do to paper

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#48

My dad describes people with an unduly inflated sense of self important as “a legend in their own lunchbox”

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#49

“Sitting there like cheese at fourpence”

I used to think this meant no one was buying the suspiciously cheap cheese. I was wrong.

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#51

I guess that’s a pre-decimalisation phrase so is it old enough that 4d for cheese was really expensive? :smiley:

#52

Correct

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#53

What? Heard it all the time as a kid. I think it’s sometimes shortened to avoid the ‘shit’ bit though, like an aside of ‘up the creek without a paddle’? Anyway standard one for me.

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#54

Needs to be unhooked from the Gold Standard and upgraded then. Tut tut.

#56

I guess it’s fallen out of use recently. I wonder why.

doesn’t imply there was a drop off in use. I guess there’s been some more recent phrase that seems more apt?

Reminds me of quicksand and how until maybe the mid-90s it was just a thing that was big in the public consciousness as a concept of a bad thing. Obviously it’s in Neverending story but I recall it being used in tea time shows and in cartoons still in the 80s. And then…gone, no one cares. I guess zombies took over and now they’ve almost gone…

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#57

File to: films that don’t exist thread

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#58

See also:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schitt's_Creek

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#59

“Christ on a bicycle” and “Hell’s teeth” were regular expressions my late Uncle used which I realised I’ve picked up when I used the latter recently and received… looks. I’m sure I’ve heard them used elsewhere but they certainly don’t seem to be hugely common

#60

“Lets belly up to the brass”- when my father wants me and my brother to meet him out for drinks.

“little bubber” my mom uses to describe my nephew.

“Whats up blood?” my uncle every time he sees me or my brother.

#61

I’ve never heard Christ on a bicycle, but Christ on a bike was pretty common when I was growing up and I’ve probably used it too.

^^^ Never heard of these but find it interesting it’s in Wikipedia thanks to this!

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#62

Is your uncle a G?

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#63

Haha, no. Its meant as what up blood, as in blood relative. Its great.

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#64

“I’m voting Tory”

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#65

My dad always says somebody has a jaw like a zookeeper’s boot

#66

Haha. My French teacher used to tell our unruly class “It’s like Billy Bob’s Taproom”

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