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there's nowt so queer as folk—hay de todo en la viña del Señor
Then he joined the local council as an office boy and began a slow climb towards the top by keeping his head down, saying nowt, doing as little as possible, and under no circumstances taking any decisions.
I suppose this is what I have to look forward to in the foreseeable future, as Zoe is now otherwise engaged (which is great, don't get me wrong) and I have nowt better to do.
‘When in doubt, do nowt,’ goes the Yorkshire saying.
I respected his principled stand, but when it came down to arguing with management, stopping redundancies etc. his principles stood for precisely nowt!
When contacted last week, he barked: ‘I've nowt to say,’ and referred calls to his lawyer, who confirmed that a legal case had been dragging on for some time.
Recently realised I watch more on C5 than I do BBC1 or ITV (because I watch nowt on them), which was interesting.
But he still did nowt until a Crown Derby plate, which had been a wedding present to their late Mum and Dad, vibrated off its hook in the front room and smashed into a thousand pieces.
As for the report that other people have made a collection to pay his fine - I can only think of the old adage, ‘There's nowt so queer as folk.’
There's nowt so queer as Yorkshire folk but they've been accepted into the community.
And now I'm back I'm fit for nowt - completely knackered.
As the old countryman would say: ‘Well, it's better than nowt, but it's nowhere near mother's milk.’
I turned to the lovely wife and said: ‘That's nowt - I've been doing that for years.’
‘Nothing’ and ‘anything’ are fine compound words, but I like the brevity of nowt and owt.
Had I dared venture into that ultimate feminine domain, Mrs C would have taken a shotgun to me - ‘This is woman's work and nowt to do with thee.’
I've just come back, but I've done nowt wrong, I've just had enough.
There is nowt wrong with a bit of politics mixed in with dance and you'd be wise to go and see Rambert's performance for yourself - even hardened dance-phobes might be pleasantly surprised.
You get nowt for nowt, and the current collapsing values of private and occupational pensions have been a stark warning of the dangers of betting your future on the financial markets.
See, this is what happens when I can't always log on; when I try and it works, I feel like I ought to write something, even when I've nowt to say.
Honest, I was really nice about it but nevertheless I did have to wonder if they really wanted to leave town where there are some great ‘eateries’ for a place where there's nowt!