Odd Expressions

[naomi24]

I've just searched the house calling for one of my dogs and finding him shut in an upstairs room said to him, 'You soppy date.  Why didn't you bark?'   Unsurprisingly he didn't answer .... but that aside, what is a 'soppy date'?
 

Can you think of any expressions you use but have no idea of the origin?

[sandyRoe]

His/her head's full of wee sweety mice.  I suppose it meant they weren't the full shilling and occupied with inconsequential things.

[Clone]

Not any that I could type here

[douglas9401]

Your tea's oot pal.

[Canary42]

https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/izinitq#:~:text=soppy%20date%20(n.),19601970198019902000

 

 

 

[ToraToraTora]

I often say "all the ins and outs of cats aris" - my mum used to say it, neither of us knew the origin or if cats really do have complex regions!

[Khandro]

TTT //"all the ins and outs of cats aris" //

In the Manchester of my childhood, it was a 'duck's' not a 'cat's'. Maybe that was because we have a lot of rain in M/C.

[Dukedelorca]

"Left in the lurch "?

[Khandro]

TTT.  I'm reminded of seeing a performance at  the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square in the 60's called Brecht on Brecht. a collection of short pieces by Berthold Brecht.

Brecht, though a German, loved Cockney rhyming slang & one of the sketches between two went:

(a) Why are you always crawling up Mr Smith's plaster.'

(b) plaster ?

(a) Yes: plaster :   plaster = Paris - Paris = arris - arris = Aristotle - Aristotle = bottle - bottle = glass,    up his ....... !

 

[Prudie]

One I inherited from grandparents. I thought it was 'oh good gawd and islanders' as a term of surprise although I find it's 'Good Gordon Highlanders' but no idea why it's an exclamation.

[Khandro]

re. 15:07, I think I left one out - (it was a long time ago):

I think it was, Paris = Harris - Harris = Harris tweed. 

But I can't remember the link to Aristotle - might have been 'read' ? 😄

[davebro3]

He/she's a "doaffy hag" ????????

[davebro3]

"she's no better than she ought to be..."

[Tilly2]

Little duck.

I have no idea why everyone in Stoke call each other 'duck'. I suspect that 'little duck' is just a diminutive form of an affectionate term.

'Chucky egg' is another one.

'Barm pot'...where does that come from?

[Buenchico]

From 20 years ago!
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question51442.html

 

[Buenchico]

'Chucky egg':
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/chucky-egg/

'Bampot' (Scots) & 'Barmpot' (English):
https://katexic.com/word/bampot/

[Prudie]

'Chucky Egg' also for those of the right generation and interest was a highly addictive platform game I played on my BBC B computer, I rushed home from work daily(teaching) to play it :-)

[curlyfries81]

The chap who delivers post to my in-laws' house has an odd turn of phrase. Whatever you say to him he just chuckles and says, "Arh, and easy." 

That is literally all he ever says. It's baffled us all for years.

[rowanwitch]

TTT must be Brecht reincarnated!