Phrases / Sayings only Teessiders Know

Not sure how local as such, but if you were asking someone for a lift on their bike, would you say "gizza croggy/crossy" or "gizza tan"? Id never heard of Tan before until a lad I know said it years ago! Think it might only be used on certain estates in Boro?
Used it in Eaglescliffe(Preston on Tees) many years ago
 
i always say "do a nash"

I have a friend from Hastings and when we were first at college together, i'd say "now then" as a greeting which she could never get her head around, always asking "now then what?" met her quite by chance in Lanzarote (almost a year ago to the day as it happens) which is 30 years after we first met - how did she greet me? yep, "now then"

I find a similar thing to 'now then' with 'alright' when used as a greeting, as in 'hello'. Which accompanied by the obligatory Teesside head nod, usually gets an 'alright' back in response.

However try this anywhere else and you mostly get chapter and verse about how they are feeling - 'Yes, I'm fine very much thanks for asking'......'erm, actually I wasn't!'
 
Funnily enough I've just started catching up with the delights of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. It's not so much the actual phrases Bob uses sometimes, it's just something in the patterns of speech, the timing. It's easy to forget how much I sometimes miss the funnyness of our town.
 
My nana used to say "Whose let Polly out of Prison" not sure if that was a Cannon Street area phrase from the 1910s.

Anyone heard that one before?
 
My Dad used to say “Eyop” when he was going to take over doing something. Also “Our Mam”, “Eight” in Boro”, “Me Mam”, “Ate” in Hartlepool!
 
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Here in Northern Ireland they have no clue what that means, I get pulled up on it often

My friend from Yorkshire refers to us common teessiders as perpel sherters 😁
 
'Slag' for loose change ( shrapnel in other regions, but fast dying out nationally).

These are more Cleveland that's bled into Teesside, but 'skemmy' and 'clem/clemmy'

The 'ayah/ ayazz' one is the only one I can think of that's still going, strange that kids have perpetuated it.
 
My nana used to say "Whose let Polly out of Prison" not sure if that was a Cannon Street area phrase from the 1910s.

Anyone heard that one before?

Yep, my nana used to say that too, she was originally from Co. Durham area and never lived in Teesside
 
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