Lakes Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Afternoon all, im currently having a conversation with my colleague about commonly known phrases, he has used the phrase "Turn left at Cromford" when being asked for directions i have never heard this in my life has anyone else heard this? also please share your commonly know phrases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Lakes said: Afternoon all, im currently having a conversation with my colleague about commonly known phrases, he has used the phrase "Turn left at Cromford" when being asked for directions i have never heard this in my life has anyone else heard this? also please share your commonly know phrases. I heard it once when i asked for directions to Winster. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealhantsram Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Lakes said: Afternoon all, im currently having a conversation with my colleague about commonly known phrases, he has used the phrase "Turn left at Cromford" when being asked for directions i have never heard this in my life has anyone else heard this? also please share your commonly know phrases. What does the phrase mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbob Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Lakes said: Afternoon all, im currently having a conversation with my colleague about commonly known phrases, he has used the phrase "Turn left at Cromford" when being asked for directions i have never heard this in my life has anyone else heard this? also please share your commonly know phrases. 'Ow much t'alfreton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Well, go to the foot of our stairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 If there are dark clouds in the sky, my Sheffield people always used to say "It's looking black ovver Bill's mother's!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRainy Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Bob's your Auntie's live-in lover. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat. Stick that in your pipe and ram it up your jacksie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawley_ram Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 The one we all know is "ey up mi duck". I've seen it banded about a lot that the word "duck" came from a Saxon word, but I don't believe it (unintentional Victor Meldrew phase). The story I was told by my historian grandfather was that the term "ey up mi duck" came straight out of Derby. In the mid-19th Century at the Morledge there used to be a group of young lads who would swim in the Derwent in the summer months. There was a Derby man called Joseph Masters who was at the Morledge one day and who overheard a lady say that the boys "look like ducks" bobbing about on the water. The boys overheard and caught onto this and started calling and greeting each other "duck", prefixing it with the phrase "ey up". This then presumably spread and became a common phrase in Derby. If you read the diaries of Joseph Masters you can find his remark about the lady saying they look like ducks in there. He left England and went to New Zealand where he founded the town of Masterton. To this day the town is still there and even has a "Derby Street". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakes Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 13 hours ago, therealhantsram said: What does the phrase mean? according to him its a joke response to being asked directions, i personally have never heard it, seems others have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealhantsram Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 22 minutes ago, Lakes said: according to him its a joke response to being asked directions, i personally have never heard it, seems others have. I've never heard it. And I grew up two miles from Cromford! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Whenever anyone asked my Grandad where he went on his holidays he'd always reply "Ible" No idea why, except that Ible is a tiny hamlet in the sticks near Wirksworth and presumably the joke is that it's somewhere you wouldn't go on holiday. But I've always wondered if there is more to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRainy Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 DH Lawrence set his short story, Wintry Peacock, at Ible. He described it thus: “I felt like I was in a valley of the dead……I looked down into the white and black valley that was utterly motionless and beyond life, a hollow sarcophagus”. In more recent times, Ible is famous for having a family who didn't go to bed for 60 years. Everyone used to peer through their window in the hope of seeing them, sat up in their rocking chairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 35 minutes ago, Lambchop said: Everyone used to peer through their window in the hope of seeing them, sat up in their rocking chairs. ....and so it was thus, reality TV was born.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Lakes said: according to him its a joke response to being asked directions, i personally have never heard it, seems others have. A bit like bugs bunny saying he should’ve took a left at alberquerque. My auntie had loads of weird phrases that I’m pretty sure were unique to her. Thank you = merci buckets, buckets of mercy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimbeard Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 When I first started work (sometime in the late Middle Ages), whenever I made a cockup, the older blokes always said, " If ya carry on like that lad, you'll end up working in Spondon treacle mines." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 'Well that just dills my pickle' is one used a lot round here and I've on occassion used it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 On 05/09/2018 at 20:10, bigbadbob said: 'Ow much t'alfreton 'Ow much t'ofton, actually. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Also the answer "leos for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks" given as an answer to "what's that?" when I wasn't considered old enough to be told the actual answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Do you Derbyshire lot say 'round the Wreakin' or is it more of a staffs/black country thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozza Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 'ells bells 'n' buckets of blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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