Dialect/slang

[Fleetline]

My late Dad always said "dim as a toch H lamp!" for somone who is thick.Anyone know what a Tock H lamp is? I never did

[Trojan]

Fleetline wrote: My late Dad always said "dim as a toch H lamp!" for somone who is thick.Anyone know what a Tock H lamp is? I never did http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/yps ... chmovt.htm

[Trojan]

Glenny3363 wrote: Maybe a bit off track, but my dad uses a number of phrases as insults or comments about people, not sure they are unique to Leeds/Yorkshire though!Tart in a trance - someone useless at something or doing it in a girlie fashion, such as he's putting like a tart in a trance (golf) or anything similar.She's got a face like a box a frogs - uglyShe's got a face like the back of a tram crash - dittoShe's got a face like a rivet catchers bucket - ditto!She's got a face like a melted wellie - ditto againHe must have known a lot of ugly women!!!! (my mum excluded obviously!!!!!!!!!)Anyone know any similar??? A face like the back of a busLegs like a Queen Anne tableWe use to have this recitation when we were kids:Your teeth are like stars - they come out at nightYour eyes are like pools - football pools - all crossedYour lips are like petals - bicycle pedalsYour ears are like flowers - cauliflowersand so on..

[Fleetline]

nick="Trojan"] Fleetline wrote: My late Dad always said "dim as a toch H lamp!" for somone who is thick.Anyone know what a Tock H lamp is? I never did http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/yps ... .htmCheers trojanthat makes a lot of sense as my grandad was at Ypres, I assume my dad got it from his dad!regards fleet

[sundowner]

What about has thick as two short planks where did that come from?Also like a wet lettuce meaning someone who is useless.

[arry_awk]

A bit 'Thick in the clear' ; Starting a cold.Having a 'Set To'; starting an argument or fightLooks paste-y round t' gills ; Looking pale.'Cough it up, it might be a tanner!

[Uno Hoo]

[quotenick="Trojan"] Glenny3363 wrote: Maybe a bit off track, but my dad uses a number of phrases as insults or comments about people, not sure they are unique to Leeds/Yorkshire though!Tart in a trance - someone useless at something or doing it in a girlie fashion, such as he's putting like a tart in a trance (golf) or anything similar.She's got a face like a box a frogs - uglyShe's got a face like the back of a tram crash - ditto I've never understood why it's the back of a tram smash. I would've thought the front would be considerably more ugly!

[Si]

Face like a roof tiler's nail bag. ...like a s**t-house door in a gale....like a belt-fed mortar.Someone of easy virtue.

[rangieowner]

Fleetline wrote: Quoting from a earlier posting****"Chunder is an Australian bit of slang i believe,its the same as a technicolour yawn or talking to god down the great white telephone,in other words,vomiting." ****I used to know someone in Leeds years ago, whose favorite saying was "why's the always carrots in yer chunder!"A a saying in my wife's family was when you were being soft, complaining of the cold etc, was "don't be nesh!" Any one know were that comes from?Something else I've only heard in Leeds is the use of the word Ginnel for a passage between streets.    As far as i know "Nesh" is used around Macclesfield area and i think it means "soft" as used in the Macc Lads song "Eez a Puff" Quote :- "Eez gone all nesh and eez makin us sick"    

[arry_awk]

Another from schooldays!'The Corporation Dung cartWas full up to the brimPoor Corporation driverFell in and couldn't swimThey hosed him down and dried himand then the sent him home,Singing;'Rule Britannia,Two tanners mek a bobThree mek eighteenpenceand four,two bob!'