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As the rain lashes down for the second day here in Ciderbad (Somerset), what local weather expressions bring a wry smile to your countenance?
Cooler than a penguin's pantry.
damping.
"Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum"
only tenuously weather related:
"a face as long as a gasman's raincoat"
I've never heard that expression used to describe the weather.. only other things ....... 😉
"dreich"
but I think today counts as double-dreich. Or maybe a quadruple Smirr.
If otters did have pockets they would be waterproof, shirley?
Colder than a witch's tit.
Drier than a nuns c.........
If otters did have pockets they would be waterproof, shirley?
They have pockets in their armpits they keep rocks in.
I've never heard that phrase used in connection with the weather.
Rather like "left looking like a plasterer's radio" is seldom used to describe the result of a snowfall.
Can something be waterproof but still wet? I think so.
Blowing dogs off chains is my favourite, though it's Merkan, I believe.
“dreich”
but I think today counts as double-dreich. Or maybe a quadruple Smirr.
I've been standing looking at railway bridges up the a9. Its alot more the smirr!
Its ****ing bogging.
I’ve been standing looking at railway bridges up the a9
what are you waiting for them to do?
Its alot more the smirr!
Smirr-MAX!
Persisting down.
“Looking a bit black over Bill’s Mother’s”
"It's dancing down" I like. And "cracking the flags". Right now it is not cracking the flags. On the OP, like feeding a horse sugarlumps? Always check the Profanisaurus...
Raining old ladies and dogs (literal translation of the equivelent of 'cats and dogs' from welsh, although the actual working is more ''old hag/crone".
Rather like “left looking like a plasterer’s radio” is seldom used to describe the result of a snowfall.
I actually just spat out a bit of coffee reading that..
"Moist" or "much moistness"...the wife hates the word "moist"..
Hallelujah, it's raining...
"Driech" covers at least 30% of the weather in Scotland
I like "Blowin a hoolie" but its reserved for times that things are actually being blown past your window. Minor gales are taken care of by "Its a wee bit breezy"
“Hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum”
That's a strange expression Bruce.
Colder than a witch’s tit.
Never heard that but my dad always said "as flat as witches tit"...
“Looking a bit black over Bill’s Mother’s”
I always use that one as well, no has a bloody clue what I'm on about. When I was in Aus years ago, in NSW someone said "It's a bit black out the back of Bourke".
Bourke being a town on the edge of the outback (ish).
My riding mates and I talk about 'keeping the dust down' during a rain storm.
Goes back about 10 years to when we arrived in Morzine in a 30c heat, people moaning about having to ride though clouds of dust being thrown up, berms that look like sandpits, big gatherings in Montriond to swim when the lifts close etc.
Of course, whilst we were unpacking our bikes and having a beer it started to spot with rain, great said the others in the chalet, "t's been unbearable".
Two hours later it was raining so hard the rain somehow managed to get under the sash window in my room and soak my bed, we spent the evening getting more pished optimistically, then sarcastically and finally woefully thinking out loud that the dust was probably down now. It threw it down every day until the day we woke at 6am to go home, it was 25c and sunny that that, and pretty much every day for the rest of the season.
Hotter than Satan’s sack
Colder than a penguin’s ballbag
Colder than Eskimo pussy
That’s a strange expression Bruce
Well, I heard the Prime Minister use it, Bruce .....
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
(See: naval canon ball storage)
You must have seen the 'otters pocket' one on youtube? BBC weather presenter mentioning it on live tv.
we live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in*
*which i never quite understood
Hotter than a firefly's back pocket, is one I use when, You know, it's hot.
Hoyin* it doon. (Throwing* it down with rain)
Blaan a hoolie. Blowing a hoolie. (very windy)
Like stevied my wife also hates the word moist, probably because I over use it....every time She comes in from the gym I say she looks “mildly moist”, for some reason she doesn’t appreciate that.
A soft day. Or a bit soft.
Used on those days when it's not quite smirr or mizzle.
“It’s brightening up”
when it clearly isn’t
Oddly, I picked up “hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum” from a mate at university. He came from Huddersfield.
i have never, ever heard anyone else use it (other than those who have got it from me .... the wife,. My nephew in Oz
Would love to know where it comes from
*blimey, its from monty python. Might stop using it ....
wetter than an otters pocket has never, ever been used to describe weather, other than when some wag made Carol the weather girl to quote it on BBC breakfast ...
Re Bill's Mother's - I remember Bumble explaining the origin to Athers who had gone through his entire playing career hearing it without knowing where it came from
Mingin'
"DOUBLE-VORTEX SUPER-TEMPEST" hyperbole, or just another tabloid click-bait title here.
Either way, my new favourite way to describe a windy evening!
Dry as a dead dingo's donger
Thick as a donkey's dongler.
OK it's not weather related...
Built like the gable end of a pound note, an anorexic whippet or I've seen more fat on a butchers pencil, not weather related but may describe a good polka dot jersey wearer on the tdf