{"id":10705,"date":"2014-12-02T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2014-12-02T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:32:11","slug":"you-lucky-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"You lucky sausage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a friend who lives in Manchester, a common expression there is <strong>&#8220;You lucky sausage!&#8221;<\/strong>, which is used when someone has some (unexpected) good luck. For example, if you won a prize in a competition, your friends might say, &#8220;You lucky sausage you!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t heard this expression before and neither has anybody else my friend asked from outside Manchester, so maybe it&#8217;s only used there. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be very common online as it only gets 666 results in Google. Does anyone from Manchester, or elsewhere, use this phrase?<\/p>\n<p>A related phrase I am familiar with is &#8220;You silly sausage!&#8221; &#8211; a light-hearted and affectionate insult used when someone, especially a child, has done or said something foolish or silly.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use this phrase, or have you heard it used?<\/p>\n<p>If not, would you say something else in such circumstances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a friend who lives in Manchester, a common expression there is &#8220;You lucky sausage!&#8221;, which is used when someone has some (unexpected) good luck. For example, if you won a prize in a competition, your friends might say, &#8220;You lucky sausage you!&#8221;. I hadn&#8217;t heard this expression before and neither has anybody else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}