How's Your Belly Off For Spots?

[Goodsoulette]

Anyone heard this saying before?
Someone said it to me today thinking I'd know what they meant because they thought that it's an old Somerset saying, I've never heard of it and neither has anyone else by the sounds of it.
Information about where it originated from seems to be a bit hazy too!

[Jackdaw33]

I've heard it in NE England. A jocular way of asking how someone is.

[Buenchico]

Used by both my mother (Cockney) and my father (who carm fram hearr in Sarfark, bor!)

[Buenchico]

Credited to the North here
http://sv.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%27s+your+belly+off+for+spots%3F
but mentioned on a Cockney discussion website here
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/blog/help-needed-obscure-cockney-phrases/
(together with the response, "Two more should cover it", which I'd heard but forgotten about).

[Calibax]

Yes, i think it's country-wide but not used so much these days. Also heard the similar "how's your bum for blisters?"

[bhg481]

Used by my Lancastrian parents many years ago.

[dieseldick]

" hows ur ar*e for dingleberries " belfast slang, i know discusting but funny .

[DTCwordfan]

My Gloucester Spot is fine and going to the slaughter-house in two weeks. I look forward to Bluebell's sausages, black and hog's pudding, and bacon - with broon sauce.

[Quizproquo]

I know the phrase from growing up in Leicester.
I also grew up with "You want jam on it you do!" meaning that you want your cake and eat it or you want more than you can expect.
Did anyone else use this phrase?

[Jackdaw33]

Common when I was young, used if you were asking for too much.

[Goodsoulette]

Haha I don't really know anything that's beyond Brizzle, I can't figure out where Sarfark is? It doesn't work in my accent.
Thanks though chaps, I will continue to mock my colleagues attempts to blend in and seem like less of a grockle ( West Country for muggle)

[Cloverjo]

I'm from Somerset and have never heard that phrase.
I think Sarfark must be Suffolk, but you're right, it doesn't work in our SW accents.

[naomi24]

//I can't figure out where Sarfark is//

I think he means Suffolk.

I was born and bred in London. That was a common expression. It simply meant 'How are you?' I've no idea where it originated.

[tonyav]

Don't think I've ever heard of that saying ( West Mids ).

[hellywelly4]

We used to say "How's your mother off for dripping". That was Leicestershire in the 40s. Haven't heard your version though.

[Bathsheba]

Familiar to me up here in Grtr Manchester

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[Jackdaw33]

How's you diddlin'? is one I remember from my (Worcs) grandmother.

[Bathsheba]

Oh that's used up here, jack

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[Ken4155]

Heard it used many years ago in up here in Burnley. When my mother used to tell us off, we sometimes found it amusing and she would say, "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face." Though we never did:-)

[Bathsheba]

Yep Ken, that was very familiar to me ;)

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[cupid04]

I remember it as 'how's your belly for wrinkles?'