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Where?

What is said?

Who is it said to?

Where does it originate from?

Lincoln

Do you come from Bardney?

said to some one who leaves a door open


The story of the arrival of the bones of St.Oswald at the monastery has given rise to a well-known Lincolnshire saying. On the night that Oswald's bones arrived, the monks shut the abbey gates and refused to allow the coffin in. During the night a 'pillar of light' shone skywards from the cart and convinced the monks that Oswald was indeed a saint and that they had been wrong to shut his coffin out. Ever after, so the story goes, they left their gates wide open - hence the saying "Do you come from Bardney?", meaning that you have left a door open

Lincoln

They fill em at Pratts

To someone who gives you a drink that isn't filled to the top

There were some tea rooms in Lincoln called Pratts, so it is said to make the person giving the drink go fill the cup or mug.

Do you come from Yapton?

People from Yapton,which is directly inland from Middleton-on-Sea,posh now but a notorious place for smuggling,were reputed to have left their doors open to aid the smugglers.

Therefore,if you leave the door open in Sussex,you probably come from Yapton.

I have always wondered the origin of something my Dad used to say. He is Sheffield, working class, born and bred.

Whenever I was making a pig's ear of a task, he would say,

"Give it ere,yer just like me Aunt Kate"

Anyone know the origin, or who Aunt Kate was?

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