Country Dictionary

close to the wind

when one farts and can smell the brown bomb lurking in the back passage,

'that stinks' said jonny 'can you smell that i'm sailing close to the wind, any closer i would have touched cloth'

More cheek than a baboon's arse

1. when one uses up all their charm to get something, then asks for a little bit more.
2. when someone of the younger elk gives the big lip to an older work mate

1. 'Daddy can i have some cash for the shops?' give her the cash, she then says 'what about the busfare?' tell her mother later she's got more cheek than a baboon's arse

2.see that young lenny borrowed my 13 millie without asking, more cheek than a baboon's arse