couldn't stop a pig in a passage

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Verb

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couldn't stop a pig in a passage

  1. (Yorkshire, idiomatic) is bow-legged.
    • 2004, Margaret Dickinson, chapter 15, in Red Sky in the Morning:
      Joe laughed. ‘Aye, I know I'm a funny little feller. I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass? But I'm good at me job, else Eddie wouldn't have asked me to come and look at that there roof.’
    • 2008, Wilf’ Lunn, My Best Cellar, page 112:
      I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage’.
    • 2011 March 1, KE Payne, 365 Days:
      And he's got funny-looking legs from all the football he plays; talk about bowed legs! Couldn't stop a pig in a passage, that one.

References

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  • Jennifer Meierhans (2016 November 6) “England's oddest phrases explained”, in BBC News[1], BBC