The expression "in a tacking"...

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  1. Poet

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    Has anyone else heard of this or do you use it?

    For example, "I went out last night and had a skinful. I was in a right tacking!"...or "did you watch the boxing last night? Smith was in a right tacking wasn't he?"...

    I work in Wakefield - no one at my place has ever heard of the expression.

    I use it all the time!
     
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    Oh aye.
     
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    Common usage in my limited vocabulary. Must always be proceeded with 'reight' though. No one is ever in a tacking. They're always in a reight tacking.
     
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    Bingo!

    I thought I was going nuts for a minute when about four people all at once thought I was saying 'attacking'... "No - a tacking". "Nope, never heard of it - must be a Barnsley thing..."
     
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    It's like using the term "laiking" as in are you laiking art?, Do kids still say it?
     
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    Probably only when laiking a computer game.

    A Laiker was also a day off work just cos you wanted one and couldn't be ar$ed to go ;)
     
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    One from my childhood

    .... ahh ....fannied thi....

    An expression to tease someone when you have tricked them, e.g. With a practical
    Joke, or made them look stupid.
    Nice turn of phrase... Think I last heard it in about 1987.
     
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    Re: One from my childhood

    Heard it last weekend and will probably hear it this weekend.

    Great phrase!
     
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    Haha brilliant! I haven't that for ages either
     
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    BO DIDDLY AR.Used to love that one bet no one uses it any more.

    When some one tells you something you dont believe. this is your reply

    Like
    I went art last neet an shagged 20 women, You would reply BO DIDDLY AR
     
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    Naval term, fighting against the wind, difficult to make progress.
     
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    had a similar conversation with someone from Sheffield, they didn't know what "towin" meant, as in "am towin wi this"
     
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    I think that is from the canal age. Hard work, towing a barge.
     
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    Never heard it before until now
     
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    Am towin mi bag art.
     
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    When the pits were in full swing Worsboro` and Kendray were known as the lake district
    some use to laik on Mondays some use to laik on Fridays and some use to laik all week.
     
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    My dads version of that was "Av bin towin mi rop art"
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    yep that as well.
     
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