Things our parents/grandparents used to say!

[Florence Fennel]

Me too, or - you look like something the wind's blown in.

[Florence Fennel]

Or at my grandma's, if I hadn't been for a week or so, Look what the wind's blown in

[Bill HH]

If you got under the feet they used to say "your stood there like sumat owt of tussards"
or if you were being nosey whats that the reply was "wing wams for meddlers"

He thats funny my parents used to say rerose for meddlers when we werebeing nosey.

[Bill HH]

Whenever there was a black cloud looming my dad always said "It looks black over Bill's mothers" (The fact my name was Bill apparently had nothing to do with it but it caused me confusion)

My uncle (From the black country) used to say after he had arrived quickly anywhere "We dae arf goo cummin back"

[Florence Fennel]

In Yorkshire it's "Tha'll meet thissen comin' back"