Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle. who has heard of this one please, they are asking in Tasmania! I have heard of it possibly in Northern Ireland.. many moons ago.. (dark ages!)
Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle - is what you say to children, or any large adult, when they ask a silly question. The other good one is - person: 'where's my school uniform, my shoes, my ......thing'. Answer - it's in Annie's room up behind the clock Regards Janice Lee Wood
"Up in Annies room behind the clock" was a favourite expression that my mother used as was "Bobs your Uncle" which puzzled me when I was small as I never had an Uncle Bob and could not understand what my mother meant. My father used to reply with "And Fannies your Aunt" which puzzled me even further. Another favourtie was "up the wooden hill" or "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" meaning go to bed. And my grandfather used to always say "He that is up is up and he that is down has to come up" which meant if you were feeling low the only way out was to "come up" out of it!! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Lee Wood" <jleewood@bigpond.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [HantsLife] sayings Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle - is what you say to children, or any large adult, when they ask a silly question. The other good one is - person: 'where's my school uniform, my shoes, my ......thing'. Answer - it's in Annie's room up behind the clock Regards Janice Lee Wood ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others. Please do not send virus warnings, or other matetial not relevant to Hampshire and its history. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003
Have a look at the following websites re this saying: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-whi1.htm http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-w.html (You will have to scroll down to wigwam in the above entry of the Macquarie Dictionary) and finally: http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/w.htm The last one is a bit slow to load but it does have plenty of "strine" expressions such as "Wally Grout", "water the horse" and widgie. (None of which are in popular use here!!) Regards, David. Balgownie NSW > Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle. who has heard of this one > please, they are asking in Tasmania! > > I have heard of it possibly in Northern Ireland.. many moons ago.. > (dark ages!) >