the berries
- A term used to describe anything excellent: 'This hot weather's the berries.'
brammer
- A term applied to anything considered a first-class example of its kind: 'Ye should see his new motor; what a brammer!'
the kipper's knickers
- A local equivalent to the bee's knees, i.e. something wonderful: 'That yin thinks she's the kipper's knickers since Big Joe got aff wi her.'
©Michael Munro
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