"Black over our Bill's mother's"

Posted by R. Berg on February 15, 2003

In Reply to: "Black over our Bill's mother's" posted by Mike Stanley on February 15, 2003

: Surprised to see that one of my mother favourite phrases was missing. Probably originates in the English Midlands - and relates to adverse weather

You can find some previous discussions of it by typing "black bill" in the archive-search box on the main Discussion Forum page. We never pinned down Bill's identity definitively.

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