
These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to
do with the theme of "snobbery, hybris, and better than thouism."
For fuller information about each usage, see the main list. There
are twenty-six files there. Just click on to the appropriate letter.
all-in wrestler: sexual boaster
artificial silk: lawyers, but not practicing ones
big blow: braggart
big girl's blouse: a walking nothing
Count of Monte Cristo: dressy to a fault
decked up like a bloody May horse: floral patterns everywhere
dolled up fer a late wedd'n: of a flamboyantly dressed, no longer young woman
fur coat and no drawers
gaiters: the ones who can afford fine footwear and who wear it alike a coat of arms
ikey: overdressed
Lady Muck of Muck Hall: a woman who puts on airs
Lady de Blobswitch: spiritual kin to Lady Muck
Lord Muck: authoritarian swell-head
Luke Har, a: "received pronunciations," delivered condescendingly
Mayoress of Leeds style: totally above her station
plastic scouser: suburbanites trying to keep a distance from the blue collar life of the inner city
plum in one's mouth, to talk with: "received pronunciations" and "school-driven" usages
Professor Messer: always lecturing
Queen Anne Front and Mury Ann back: ridiculous social pretensions, and a closet full of skeletons
Queen o' ther Midden: a conceited woman
Rhubarb Vaselino: young man with a mirror and comb
talking in telephone numbers: dropping allusions to huge, mythical sums of money
woman with a new oven: the neighbors will neve hear the end of it.
SAYINGS (SNOBBERY, HYBRIS, AND BETTER THAN THOUISM)
We all new yer when yer had no arse in yer kecks.
she talks Blendalsahnds(plummier than thou)
Ee's gorran ed as big as Berkened
mutton dressed up as lamb(someone in fancy clothing all of a sudden)
simulated mink and lookin' a right scrubber(an unattractive person, regardless of the phoney furs)
Maggie hasn't changed her windows in years. She still has an echo saying Gordon Killed in Khartoum
Big head, no bread in the house, or: lace curtains, no bread in the house, or: two coats and no knickers