Catalogue of my grandmother’s sayings - Claire Askew

 Catalogue of my grandmother’s sayings

A bloody good hiding
Another egg chipped
Bent as a nine-bob note
Blood and sand
Blood and stomach pills
Broad as it’s long
Brought up in the bottle and seen nowt but the cork
Could ride bare-arsed to London on them scissors
Could’ve written slut in the dust in that house
Dogs in the same street bark alike
Good clip under the lug’s what he needs
Like a blue-arsed fly
Ninepence to the shilling
Not as green as he’s cabbage-looking
Queer as Dick’s hatband
Six of one and half a dozen of the other
Twined as a bag of weasels
Well go to the foot of our stairs
Well our Amy Judith Sarah Christine Claire
What a right bag of washing
You want nowt with that I tell you
You want nowt with that

Claire Askew

From This Changes Things (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2016)