the phrase explained
help us out
2006-11-07 13:27:45 · 10 answers · asked by bmebodymod 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know its funny cause people who live on farms are very careful to close gates so the livestock dont get out.. Just natural instinct really..
There is another saying which it may be reated to:
"Do you come from Bardney?"
The story of the arrival of the bones of St.Oswald at the monastery has given rise to a well-known Lincolnshire saying. On the night that Oswald's bones arrived, the monks shut the abbey gates and refused to allow the coffin in. During the night a 'pillar of light' shone skywards from the cart and convinced the monks that Oswald was indeed a saint and that they had been wrong to shut his coffin out. Ever after, so the story goes, they left their gates wide open - hence the saying "Do you come from Bardney?", meaning that you have left a door open.
Said to someone who fails to close an external door behind them on entering a building, thus causing a discomforting draught. There are regional variations, in Lincolnshire for instance, one will hear "Do you come from Bardney?" a reference to a windswept fenland village in that English county. Also said, more generally, of people with crass manners or personal habits.
Umm maybe just shut the door.. lol
2006-11-07 13:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Were you born in a barn"? A statement that people make to each other, usually to children who come inside the house and leave the door opened. It doesn't really mean that the child was born in a barn it's just a statement to remind them to close the door, when they go in and out.
I hope I have explained this, so that you understand.
2006-11-07 21:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by kayboff 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being born in a barn is the same as saying dont you have any manners. Peace.
2006-11-07 21:30:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you always leave the door opened, like you were raised in a barn. the door in a barn is open so that the animals can go in and out
close the door behind you and nobody will tell you that
2006-11-07 21:32:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you stupid? That is what that means Someone that has no manners, born in a barn being no outside learning..
2006-11-07 21:29:12 · answer #5 · answered by Piper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that is what it means is your stupid but, I wonder why we say that when our Lord was born in a barn?
2006-11-07 21:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife was born in the bush. So were a lot of others i know. Most are traumatized by city folk.
2006-11-07 21:40:09 · answer #7 · answered by nomisthgiwd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom always asked me if I were born there every time I left the door open.
2006-11-07 21:30:30 · answer #8 · answered by Hellsdiner 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an insult implying you have the social graces of a pig.
2006-11-07 21:29:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
on natural place
2006-11-07 21:29:16 · answer #10 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋