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Words/phrases you use but don't always know how they came about.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I've always liked: All fur coat and no knickers.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    "She's no better than she should be"

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In and out like  a fiddler's elbow
    Up and down like a whore's knickers  is the way I heard that one @Woodgreen .  
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    My mum wouldn't have used them that way, @B3. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    My mother says "in and out like a dog in a fair". My nan used to say it as well, but I've no idea where it came from.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    In and out like  a fiddler's elbow
    Up and down like a whore's knickers  is the way I heard that one @Woodgreen .  
    I heard it was a brides’s nightie that went up and down 😳

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I would say it was  pronounced whoooer's knickers. - my mum doesn't use that kind of language either. However, I have heard her use the word knickers, but never as an expletive. More like "I'm going to take 6d off your pocket money for every pair of knickers I find under your bed."
     It never worked, I'm still untidy.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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