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If my old man didn’t want us kids to know exactly where he was going, he would say he was “going to meet Charlie out o’ the Warwicks”. Never understood it and never heard anyone else say it.

My mate who pasted away last year at the age of 94, said there dad when they were kids would call them "cheeky blinders". They lived in Hay Mills so could be related to the Peakys.

Manxie

If my old man didn’t want us kids to know exactly where he was going, he would say he was “going to meet Charlie out o’ the Warwicks”. Never understood it and never heard anyone else say it.

Possible original source?
The Warwicks is a shortening "nickname" for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Or

"Meeting a Charlie out of..." is classic Midlands and British pub vernacular.

It could be he was simply going to a pub called or nicknamed the Warwicks?

Going to see a man about a dog was another version.

When i asked what was for tea I was told wait and see pudding

Going to see a man about a dog was another version.

Going there and back, to see how far it is.

Bobowler (a large moth)

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My dad used to say 'as drunk as a barbowler' never understood it but obviously with bar in it I thought it was a reference to the pub, maybe I've been wrong in thinking that for 50 years.

My nan used to alternate between Bobowler and Bobby (H)owler. Seemed to refer to daddy longlegs as well as moths.

My guess is that the word origin is from its camouflage and fake eyes which make it look like a tiny owl. Bob in this case referring to a shilling coin.

English also used to have a thing where a diminutive name would go before an animal. Jenny wren, Tom tit. We still have that with robin redbreast and mag-pie (pie as in piebald). Could be that.

I reckon that's plausible.

ChimneySweepover

Do kids still call sweets "rocks"?

Anyone know ?☺️

Has "Shit with egg on " surfaced yet?

My dad used to say "5 and 20 past" rather than "25 past" (usually as a hurry-up when we were meant to be somewhere by half past)