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Well That's His N C B Up The Pictures!
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NCB = No Claims Bonus.
Up the pictures = lost
I don't know if you ar efamiliar wit hthe film "The Wrong Box". In it there occurs a head-on smash between two steam trains on a single line. The wreckage is spectacular, with both locomotives ending up propped up in the air, buffer to buffer. The remainder of the trains is reduced to matchwood.
John Junkin, playing the driver of one of them, stands scratching his head and says to his fireman "I tell you what, Fred. We haven't heard the last of this!"
I have never heard the phrase, "up the pictures".
I'm most surprised, Corby.
It's similar in meaning to "Gone for a Burton". It was well used when I was younger, though perhaps not so much now. It seems from this:
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That others similarly have not heard of it, thinking it means "gone to the cinema".