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 Post subject: Re: Cheese at fourpence
PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:00 pm 
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Crammed is how I feel when I am in a really really bad mood. :x That face is crammed


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 Post subject: Re: Cheese at fourpence
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Crammed as a wasp.
Going back to cheese at fourpence, my nana also used to say 'stood around like one of Lewis's'. I assume it referred to shop assistants at Lewis's store.

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 Post subject: Re: Cheese at fourpence
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Gloria wrote:
Crammed can mean tetchy, bit bad tempered, it can also mean packed like sardines as Mel says. I think of it as tetchy.

I remember using that one as well ! A grumpy person was known as a crammed old bugger. :roll:

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