The word Scram

[Malloy]

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Mine would stand up from his chair, stretch, then say 'eee, man alive'

Fuck knows what it meant

[/QUOTE]
I still say, "lad alive" now, I'm only just gone 40.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

He exclaimed ,+
way out of your depth

He's just learning the ropes...

 

[JAZZMANB]

He's just learning the ropes...

We're all in the same boat on here

 

[viccarlton]

Sling your hook is a naval term.

"Take your hammock elsewhere, you're in my place"

Many sayings in everyday use have naval origins.

Any port in a storm.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

We're all in the same boat on here

Just been out on the bike. Was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

 

[Rick O Shea]

Sling your hook is a naval term.

"Take your hammock elsewhere, you're in my place"

Many sayings in everyday use have naval origins.

Hello sailor......

 

[JAZZMANB]

Just been out on the bike. Was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Enough is enough ,I think we're on an even keel

 

[dickie mc rich]

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[Son of Stan]

I still say, "lad alive" now, I'm only just gone 40.[/QUOTE]
For some reason I've started to say 'never in creation' - which was one of my Dad's sayings...and I'm guessing no one has used it since he died either. Till now!

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Sling your hook is a naval term.

"Take your hammock elsewhere, you're in my place"

Many sayings in everyday use have naval origins.

Hello sailor?

 

[longtimelurker]

My Mam used it all the time,assumed it was local and old school
Heard it on american stuff a bit
Maybe came over in the war ?
Sounds very mackem
Thats all folks !

Beat it!

 

[madone]

put simply it means piss off

 

[longtimelurker]

put simply it means piss off

 

[peachy]

Not short for scramble

scram
skram/
verb
informal

1. leave or go away from a place quickly.
   "get out of here, you miserable wretches—scram!"
   synonyms: go away, depart, leave, take yourself off, take off, get out, get out of my sight

Also jargon for shutting down a nuclear reactor , I didn't know that, just found that out. ( Scram).



scramble (n.)

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1670s, "an eager, rude contest or struggle," from scramble (v.). Meaning "a walk or ramble involving clambering and struggling with obstacles" is from 1755. Meaning "rapid take-off" first recorded 1940, R.A.F. slang.
scramble (v.) http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scramble
1580s (intransitive), perhaps a nasalized variant of scrabble (v.), in its sense of "to struggle, to scrape quickly." Transitive sense "to stir or toss together randomly" is from 1822. Broadcasting sense "to make unintelligible" is attested from 1927. Related: Scrambled; scrambling. Scrambled eggs first recorded 1843.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Hello sailor?

Summat I'll never be. Felt sick just standing on the pontoon waiting for the Hayling ferry last month.

 

[JAZZMANB]

Beat it!

shamon mofo!