HarryVegas
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It's not a Teesside phrase, it's used in various regions throughout the north from what I can make out.
Phrases / Sayings only Teessiders Know
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Doom_On_Horseback
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I often used to 'bevv' to the shops to get some 'kets'' when I was a 'bairn'
HarryVegas
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Yep. "The Boro'll always let you down!" There's a fair few lurk on here
NorthumberlandBoro
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You have just brought back a memory back from many years ago...my grandma used when I was a little kid...never heard it since. She was born around the turn of the century.
Transitarmy
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Heard my 5 year old grandson say, in his best Boro accent "looka, Granddad" today, as in "look at this, Grand papa"
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Sybil_Fawlty
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argh that knacked = ouch that hurt . Not sure if it's strictly a Teesside one, but people out of the area have looked at me in puzzlement if I've said it
slavens_holgate_fence
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what does it mean?
HarryVegas
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When someone has anonymously let off in a crowd.
taken from a Wigan messageboard from a thread asking where does the phrase originate - not sure if i accept this, quantum mechanics to farting seems a bit of a (quantum) leap
The phrase 'Polly out (of Prison)' is derived from 'Polly Gone', or 'Polygon', taken from the 'Polygon of Forces' used in Quantum Mechanics.
ie: A figure showing several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the vector necessary to make the figure closed is the resultant of those forces.
Therefore, the 'Trump' (the Letting Out of Polly) is affected from the resultant vector, being the sum of several other applied forces acting simultaneously upon one point.
The phrase 'Polly out (of Prison)' is derived from 'Polly Gone', or 'Polygon', taken from the 'Polygon of Forces' used in Quantum Mechanics.
ie: A figure showing several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the vector necessary to make the figure closed is the resultant of those forces.
Therefore, the 'Trump' (the Letting Out of Polly) is affected from the resultant vector, being the sum of several other applied forces acting simultaneously upon one point.
fozzylegend
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i don't think i've heard gadgie outside of teesside if i'm honest
Bororeddaz
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Gadgie is used all over the north and Scotland
HarryVegas
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I think Gadgie is another from Romany origin, as is Chav.
NorthumberlandBoro
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I can recall Sunderland fans singing....'all the Boro fans are gonna get the knack' back in the day
red_harrington
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I was wondering the other day about huge gaps in the crowd that would suddenly appear in the Holgate, where everyone would back off and there would be a large 'hole' in the middle of the terrace where nobody stood. Anybody else remember them?
I always wondered how they came about, perhaps this is the answer.
tonybiriyani
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Left handed
Redwurzel
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Wow - My Nana was a Quantum Mechanic in 1914!
Redwurzel
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THEE'S GOT'N WHERE THEE CASSN'T BACK'N, HASSN'T
Not Teesside I know but always makes me laugh - it was heard on an interview regional TV from Bristol on a local news show in the late 1960s/early 1970s and turned into a song by the Wurzels.
Anyone like to guess what it means (without looking it up) and how it was used by the Wurzels?
Not Teesside I know but always makes me laugh
- it was heard on an interview regional TV from Bristol on a local news show in the late 1960s/early 1970s and turned into a song by the Wurzels.Anyone like to guess what it means (without looking it up) and how it was used by the Wurzels?