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marges | 18:07 Mon 30th Jan 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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is there a saying dont give me no truck


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I've heard of having "no truck" with something that sort of means you don't give it any credit / don't think whatever the thing was that you had no truck with was worthwhile.

Used in Norfolk to mean nonsense, or cheek, or rubbish, i.e. don't give me none of your nonsense.


Also said in terms of I'll have no truck with it, i.e. nothing to do with it.

'Truck' has meant 'odds and ends' since the 1700s. For example, waiting-staff had to clear away the 'truck' after a meal...ie not just the crockery and cutlery but also any waste food and other debris. As a result, the word took on the meaning of 'trash/rubbish'.
I guess, therefore, that your example sentence more or less amounts to saying: "Don't talk rubbish!" Personally, I have never heard the word so used, so it may well be that Norfolk is the only area in which this meaning still applies.
Yes ..we say this all the time here in Norfolk QM !
"Don't yew give me none a your ole truck"
Don't be cheeky.
Um not hevin' any ole truck wi' him"
I want nothing to do with him.
tha torks dead funny in Norfolk dun't tha?
I take it you are from Yorkshire then, Grunt Futtock?

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