Mothers - turn of phrase

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

Pearse McMullan from Limerick has been out here for some years and he described fixing lights or whatever in his mother's house and said she would say to him:

"Pearse, do you know what it is, you are as handy as a small pot" !

My mother describes how ( in the 30's or 40's) when a farmer would be asked how he got on at a market selling cattle, he would reply:

"Well, we did not get what we thought we would get, but we were expecting that" !

Where would you get it!

 

[P.J.]

BIOG.

. .get a hold of Brendan Lynch's book "There Might be a Drop of Rain Yet" which is what his Mother used to say to him if he was getting too optimistic.

 

[GerryC]

"Will you ever be getting sense and stop moping about" was and is my mother's mantra. Not sure that I got the sense and was/am never sure exactly what moping really was/is.

 

[bladerunner]

Yorkshire born and bred........


As an extreme expression of surprise my grandfather would say "eeee, I'll go to't' foot of our stairs"

An expression of being very worried

"'av bin wittlin' me tripe out"

If a ladies slip was showing under the skirt/dress

"Yer father loves you more than thee mother"








NO, I don't know why either!