"Faggots," actually.

R : I thought she was taking the mickey.

My Belfast connections always ask in the negative...

Do ya not want some tea?

This is addicting...somebody stop me!!LOL

He's such an anorak

"Twee..." something that's sickeningly cute, or a person who's just a little bit too sweet.

"Pissed as a newt..." drunk as a skunk.

"That's a bit of a damp squib..." a disappointment. I'm told that sqib means the same thing as a fuse, so you're already to blast away but the fuse is wet and your project eithere fails, or at least comes off poorly.

A squid is a firecracker, not a fuse.

Brilliant! That is just Brilliant!

How about I'll be with you in "two shakes of a lamb's tail".

When speaking of something or place, it's gone to the dogs.

One of my favorites from my Lancashire grandfather, a bookie - referring to the favorite in a race as "the chalk".

Still use it.

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A squid is a firecracker, not a fuse.
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it's also slang for quid (double slang i guess).

It is not squid but squib, as the first poster said. Damp squib.

Has anyone said, "like a rat up a drainpipe?". Obviously meaning very quickly.

You're right, of course. My typing dyslexia strikes again.

OTOH, I've never heard squid used as quid, except here.

Another one came to mind this morning

in and out like a fiddler's elbow.

...or in and out like a dog at a fair.
Talking of dogs, fit as a butcher'dog.

Again on fiddles.
My mother used to say of the sort of man who is the life and soul of the party, but is suspected of not being very nice at home "I think that he leaves his fiddle on the doorstep."

Street angel, house devil.

My M-I-L used to say, "well he's no oil painting, is he?

"Bob's your uncle." (I'm still a bit flumoxxed about the meaning -sort of..voila)

and then there's "Gordon Bennett"

<i>who's</i> Gordon Bennett, I ask. O

squiffy

her indoors=trouble &amp; strife

Stone, as in weight,,,,,what does it mean when they say someone weighs &quot;five stone&quot;?

As I recall, a stone is 14 pounds so 5 stone would be 70 pounds.
Wishing I could see 9 stone again,
teacher

A stone=14 lbs. 5 stone is 70 lbs.
http://www.metric-conversions.org/we...-to-pounds.htm

Too funny....I was just in Boots last week finishing up a month long visit in Cambridge and stepped on a scale to see if I had gained any weight from going to the pubs every night. They gave me my weight in stones and I had no idea what that meant. I convinced myself it meant I had lots tons of weight, LOL.

I love when the weather person describes the weather as &quot;fresh&quot; and says &quot;today is going to be fresher than we are used to this time of year....&quot; It was cold last week, 19 C!!! In August!

teacher, me too