Dated expressions in English
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dtaai-maai
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lindosfan1
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Re: Dated expressions in English
Funnily enough, (theres another one) not from my family, but certainly heard in different places.Like a lot of towns there were rough areas and we lived near one. The people were lovely but the language very coarse. One woman we called foghorn lil could be heard from a 100 yards away.
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And I remember them all - sadly the first one all too well!! Certainly remember belching the odd bubble in my childhood
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dtaai-maai
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Don't pull faces, if the wind changes you'll stay like that!
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oakdale160
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You daft ha'porth
Taking the Queen's shilling
Mutton dressed as lamb
Taking the Queen's shilling
Mutton dressed as lamb
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Re: Dated expressions in English
Daft apeth was certainly one of my uncles' favorites - another one being "about as useful as a crack in a glass eye"...
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
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How do you think the match will go? Not sure play it by ear.
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Who has rattled your cage?
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Like a dog with two tails...
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That’s the polite version!!Vital Spark wrote:Like a dog with two tails...
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Re: Dated expressions in English
I'm the OP==I am not sure about some of these posrs. I think that some of them listed are still in use.
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dtaai-maai
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^^Oh my god!! Please send a list to the mods so that the perpetrators can be suspended... 
By the way, you're making the same mistake as one or two others have made in the past. Starting a thread doesn't give you ownership of it.
By the way, you're making the same mistake as one or two others have made in the past. Starting a thread doesn't give you ownership of it.
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Now’t so queer as folk!!