Betty Martin

[DSJ]

In Gloucestershire, as a child, I remember people saying 'All my eye and Betty Martin' and later my father-in-law using a cruder substitute word for the 'eye' bit!

Does this saying come from the West Country or was it used where you live? Who was Betty Martin anyway?

I'm interested to read your memories of this odd saying.

[Baldric]

If you google the phrase just as you have written it above, there is a whole load of information there!

[thos]

we still say it in Yorkshire

[Quizmonster]

Click http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-all3.htm here for the view of an expert in such sayings.

[DSJ]

Thank you all. Interesting, isn't it?