Bootle Saying's

Your place to talk about your Bootle memories
Eddy Lloyd
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Location: Waterloo

Welcome to the site Paula I'm sure you'll have many a giggle in here with this lot. :D :D
paula j
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Joined: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:18 pm
Location: bootle

one of our family sayings was 'big head and no bread in the house'
Tony Hines
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Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:52 pm
Location: Eastbourne Sussex

welcome paula
i used to keep fit running up and down to the bookies from grimley avenue.
used to stay outside listening to the commentary with joey malone.
Kenny Cunningham
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Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:29 pm
Location: Maryland, USA

His spit has muscles!
Are you talkin' to me or chewing a brick!
When she sucks a lemon the lemon pulls a face!

I still have a copy of 'Lern yerself scouse' by Linacre Lane.
Don't find too much use for it over here in Maryland.
By the way there is no such thing as 'Maryland Cookies'
warbaby
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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Took me back years remembering many of these sayings. In addition:

When asked what's for tea, Mum would reply "Duck and Grab" What's that? - Duck under the table and grab what you can!

When I stood open mouthed listening to my mother and grandmother's conversation, my grandmother would turn to me and say "Make yourself scarce" (and I did!)

Thinks he's sharp just cos his heads pointed

Wanna wake up with a crowd round you? (from Tom O'Connor)
warbaby
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welcome paula
i used to keep fit running up and down to the bookies from grimley avenue.
used to stay outside listening to the commentary with joey malone.


I used to keep fit on Mondays taking my Mum's 'good' shoes to Addicott's Pawn Shop at the top of Marsh Lane to get four shillings for our dinner - then pick them up on Tuesdays (family allowance day!) for four shillings and threepence! I used to stay outside first - making sure nobody we knew saw me visiting the pawn shop - Mum's instructions!!
smoked out
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diyman wrote:red arse will get yer if yer go the semogs = cemertary
who is red arse ?
bare arse the bandits mate.
buchanan clan
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Joined: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:17 pm

when asked where she's been my nan would say "i've been to argate".
another one was he's/she's got a face to stop a clock.
TMWilson56
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Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:25 pm
Location: Burtonwood

Only just joined ,so mine is a few years late ,my ma used to say she's got an a...e like a money lenders handbag .
Mike R
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Location: Wirral

Hi

My mate's dad stopped me in my tracks and took me down a peg or two, when he saw my new car for the first time, he said "It's shiny, just like snot up a jigger!"


My favourite put down line from a girl at the ODVA. My mate said to her, "I could live in your eyes" and she replied " Well, you'd be at home, there's a sty in one of them!"

Rgds

Mike R
Born in Oxford St Maternity.
Lived in Southey St for 5 years then moved to Bulwer St till 1981!
Walton till 1987
Sunny Wirral since.
Elaine Goulding
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Joined: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:51 pm
Location: Canada

As useless as a one armed paperhanger
Elaine

Bianca Street, Bootle - moved to Canada 1982
jmoorcroft
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Joined: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:10 am
Location: sefton

My Great gran used to say if she saw you eating a jam butty " Id sooner keep you for a week than a fortnight " Jim
jmoorcroft
lynne99
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Location: Rugby

had a friend called Joan Plank, who hated the "thick as 2 short planks" saying.
The stairs were called the dancers, because a dance called the Lancers had a lot of steps in it. I do hope that is correct. :?
kenswayken

Lynn, always thought dancers came from Cockney rhyming slang - Fred Astaire , stairs , dancers :lol: Ken
Elaine Goulding
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Location: Canada

Ken, I thought cockney for stairs was "up the apple and pears"?
Elaine

Bianca Street, Bootle - moved to Canada 1982
kenswayken

That too Elaine, there must be variations of most sayings ? Corrupted over the years.
The old area designated as Cockney would have a definite Asian language slant on it these days :lol: Ken
Roy Retro
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Dancing bears = stairs, strange that even all those years ago cockney rhyming slang made it up to Bootle :D
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efc46
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When you had just had a hair cut one of your mates would spit on his hand run up behind you slap you on the back of your and shout FIRST WET.
lookin at me or chewin a brick.
dats as old as last weeks echo
lets gerr a legger (hang off the back of a lorry)
Davey Rowlands Bootle
Mike McC
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Joined: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:15 pm
Location: Waterloo

One my dad used about anyone who was potty was "His bars are down." No idea where it came from.
And one from my partner who was a townie was that if she asked her mother for money the reply would be "Do you think I'm Ann Lyden ?" again no idea where it came from.
Ex Addison St, and St Joans.
TMWilson56
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Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:25 pm
Location: Burtonwood

My mum used to say she's got an a..e like a money lenders handbag x
Roy Retro
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Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:17 pm

Another thing I remember from older relations was younger female members of the family being referred to as "Mary Mint"
"Where's Mary Mint gone?"
Don't know where it come from or if any other people said it
bob. b
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What about Tilly mint where's Tilley mint :D :D :D :) :)
Brunnyboy
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german bomb headed wont say the rest when I upset me mum lol
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efc46
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He;s a Head theball (nutter)
Thats gear (sound)
a lad named peter was also called wacker
he is only half a quid (not all there)
Dockers doorstep( Thick toast and bacon butty)
Davey Rowlands Bootle
Liz H
Posts: 38
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:26 pm
Location: Buxton

"Don't you look at me in that tone of voice, milady."
Lived in Garden Lane Bootle then moved to Netherton, where my mum still lives.
dezzer
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Joined: Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:07 pm
Location: evrywhere and nowhere mostly northern Thailand

flit take a powder hard clock
Mostly Northern Thailand.
walter raybould
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Location: Bootle
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There is part of an epitaph on a gravestone at Thornton Garden of rest. ALL THE WORLD AND TEN TANNERS, does anybody know what it means ? Cheers.
Patricia
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Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:00 pm
Location: Virginia

Some sayings I grew up with:

1. "Money doesn't grow on trees you know!

2. "Close the door! - anyone would think you were raised in a barn?"

3. Because I said so!!

4. "Stop crying before I give you something to cry about!!

5. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

6. Your face is going to freeze that way.

7. Make sure you do the corners, the middle will take care of itself!!

8. If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing properly!! (fav of my Mum's)

9. You're not made of sugar, you won't melt.

10. Hold your Horses!
lynne99
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Location: Rugby

All of those could have come from my parents as well. Thanks. My dad also used to say something was "Sky blue pink with a finny inny border" when asked about colour. Hope spelling is ok.. Anyone else heard of this or was it just my Dad :D
Elaine Goulding
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Location: Canada

When anyone had very sparse thinning hair, my sister would describe the hair as "two strands and a nit"!
My pal used to describe any man with a "comb over" as looking like a "walnut whip"!
Elaine

Bianca Street, Bootle - moved to Canada 1982
demilee123
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elaine the best one if you had thin hair it was oh god look at her shes only got 2strands and a nit lol
Elaine Goulding wrote:Ken, I thought cockney for stairs was "up the apple and pears"?
Jan
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Joined: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:34 pm
Location: Bootle

:) :)

Someone who was sulking, He/she's got lips like rolls of lino.

Are you reading that Echo yer sittin on?

Some years ago I was on holiday in Turkey and I spotted two local women , they were wearing the most hideous looking trousers, I commented to my partner (who's not from Liverpool) "The kip of the kecks on them two", He looked at me and said "What are you talking about I don't know what you mean" hahaha.

Only last week he and my friend were having a friendly banter, and he said he would tell me what she said, my friend called him a clat tail, he had no idea what she meant haha, I had a laugh explaining.

Jan
Old genealogists never die......they just lose their census.
john1878
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Joined: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:46 pm

Down the banks
bob. b
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Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:04 pm

Are a you :roll: :roll: :roll:
First lick :P :P :P
Giss a go
kick the can
calm down
cob on
NIKO
Posts: 336
Joined: Thu May 21, 2009 12:22 pm
Location: Vassilikos,Zakynthos, Bootle

R,Kelly, an American singer, or some ones sister if your from Bootle.
BEN....
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