Cob On

[overdale]

When someone is angry we say 'cob on', who invented this saying and why

[Quizmonster]

The origin is unknown, but it first appeared in the 1930s.

[eddiebun]

It's funny - looking through Google people from many areas of England and Scotland seem to think that this a phrase peculiar to their region. But it obviously isn't by the number of different areas which think so.

Before looking I would have say that this was a particularly Scouse saying- because that's where I'm from.

[Narolines]

Who's this "we"? I, for one, have never heard of it........

[bigl]

I'm from Yorkshire and I would use this phrase but my partner who'se from Lincolnshire, just a few miles away the other side of the River Humber doesn't know it and thought it meant a man's erection!!!