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Where I live there was something much more specific. Do you come from Yapton?

Yapton is the village directly inland from Middleton-on -Sea which is well posh now but was rife with smugglers and the people of Yapton would leave their doors open so they could drop a bit in.

Born in a barn with the door open....if we did not shut a door

Black as old Harry's nutting bag.

Put the wood in the hole...that was one of my Dad’s sayings too. Another favourite of his when we were a bit grubby was “you’re as black as Newgate’s knocker”.

I must ask OH if he’s heard of “suck your feet”. I’ve never heard it before.

Dad used to say 'put the wood in the hole'. Shut the door! :-D

Dad said 'Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire '. Another of his was to say' you make a better door than a window' if you were standing in front of something he wanted to see. He was from Derbyshire but had joined the army when he was 20 so picked up a lot of sayings that we also picked up.
Mom's family were born in Aston (now part of Birmingham ) so maternal side has the Brummie speech and we know a lot of the Black Country sayings as well but Brummie and Black Country are different . :-D

I'm sure we said ' suck your feet' as well at school.

I lived in Sarf London as a child and we were sent “up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire” or sometimes “up the apples” which was very confusing to me as we lived in a ground floor flat :-S

Well I'll go to sea in a tar tub.

I’ve heard of the wooden hills. Trouble Is one gets old enough to hear many versions and old enough to forget the one used in your own childhood. :-S

Norf lunden too.
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and now I am in said place , spooky or what :-D :-D :-D

Never heard of that one either (norf lundun)

We went up The Wooden Hills.

When there was a love scene in a film, Mum always said 'Love In The Four Ale Bar'

Never heard that one (sarf west Lunnon).
I think we went up the rickerty stairs to bed.

It's a new one to me, Sharron, so I wonder whether it is local to your area.

My Dad almost always called me 'sweet' - as a noun. I never heard it used by anyone else where we lived then about three years ago a nice lady in a Southend grocery store called me it .... and it dawned on me that Dad had picked it up from his Dad who was still in Essex, near Southend, until his early-20s.

One that my Liverpool Gran always used - up the dancers - when we were going to bed. Never heard that where I live now.

I love all that variety around our small island.

Any more where you are?

I'd never heard this saying until you mentioned it once on an earlier thread.

Is it still said in your local area?

At one school I went to, they did this.

You pull the sweet/bag away when you say 'suck your feet', don't you?

I had some sweets and because I was brung up proper (and I didn't like them much), I asked OH if he would like one.

He said 'yes' so I told him to suck his feet.

He had never heard this before.

Surely, mine was not the only primary school whose pupils, and probably the teachers too enjoyed pulling this one on their fellows.

He did get a sweet though!