black over Bill's mother's

Meaning: (East Midlands,idiomatic)Describing rain-bearing dark clouds on the horizon.2000, Roy Holland,Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, page51:“It looks a bitblack over Bill's mother's,” I said. “I don't like the look of them bleeding clouds for one minute.”2008, Amy Cornes Torr,One Potato Two Potato: Woolley Jones II, page136:“Oh, that's nice.” said Mrs Jones looking out of the window at the rain. “It has gone realblack over Bill's mother's,” she said using one of the old sayings from around those parts.2015, Stu Stevens, chapter 1, inLalla:Lalla puffed contentedly at his pipe. Then he removed it, spat, and looked at the sky. “It's gettingblack over Bill's mother's. We ought to be making a start.”

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