for donkey's years. It means they hadn't seen me for ages. Drop a clanger When I asked a large lady on the tube if she would like my seat since she was so obviously pregnant, she took the seat then told me she was fat, not pregnant! Boy did I drop a clanger. You might make a gaffe. Either way it was horrendously embarrassing. especially as half the people on the tube had heard me! Duck In and around Leeds you will find older people might call you "duck in the same way that they might call you "love" or "dear in other places. Usually pronounced more like "dook". which rhymes with "book Duff Anything that is duff is useless, junk, trash. It usually means that the object doesn't do the job it was intended for. Our last Prime Minister was pretty duff!