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Face like a bag of spanners.

I wouldn't like to pay for their breakfast (about a large person)

Go and throw a few fucks into them (telling someone off)

Blood and guts (the red and cream colour of a particular company's railway carriages)

Up and down like a whore's drawers (about uneven paving)

No two pounds of him hanging straight (an ungainly chap)

 

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To describe a loose woman: "she's as whorish as a chicken"

because of how hens offer their behinds to roosters, I assume :classic_laugh:

 

 

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"... depois não te queixes que o arroz tem formigas"

 

word by word translated to "then don't complain there are ants in your rice". You use it a situation where someone is talking like they are acting or going to act careless, and you reply that "ok, you can do that but then don't come back complaining about current circumstances"

 

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Ya maw’s a beetroot.
 

Yer bums out the windae, ye fuckin bampot.

 

Ye’ve got a face lit a melted welly.

 

Ya wispy-haired, leather-faced, bawbag-eyed, huffy wee fuckbumper.

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"froler la mort n'est rien, passer a coté de la vie est autrement plus grave"  

french biker proverb.

"dicing with death is nothing, missing out on living is far more serious"

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My dad used to comment on drivers ahead of him who were dawdling or indecisive, "Fer Christ sake, he's driving like a fart in a trance."

When a person of the younger generation stops in the street and stands close to my main paving mason and starts a loud mobile phone conversation he turns to one of his labourers and says, "Bradley......Start the saw."

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  On 08/04/2021 at 19:21, boboneleg said:

It might be 'half a crown'  or even a 'tanner' 

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Used to have a bike mate called Dai Tanner.....who always burst into tears when he fell off!

Anyway.....it really fucked his head up that from Feb 71 he was always known as Dai Two and a Half New Pence!

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  On 08/04/2021 at 19:14, boboneleg said:

I like,  (and often say)  '' he's not quite the shilling '' 

Anyone younger than 60 may not understand :classic_unsure:

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See also,

"A sandwich short of a picnic".

"Lost his marbles."

"A screw loose."

"Away with the fairies."

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