Charlotte Sophia Burne

“ Hanging Jos=eating before the appointed time. "Mothers when putting up children's dinners to take with them to school, or to their place of employment, often give the injunction, 'not to get hanging Jos.' 'He's hanging Jos' is a remark often made on a potworks when any one is seen to be mortgaging on what has been packed up for his dinner."
I shall go to Leek out of the noise. "This saying is of Congleton origin, and arose through a murder committed a hundred years ago outside that town by a man named Thorley, whose body was gibbeted on West Heath. ”

“ It is obvious that Thorley's remark, and his want of participation in the general excitement, were what drew suspicion on him and caused the saying to be remembered.]
Like Bott's cocks, all of a breed=all alike.
Once nowt, twice summat=a first offence counts for nothing. "Akin to the German 'Einmal, keinmal.'" [This seems like a forgotten beginning, or first half, of the common proverb "The third time pays for all."]
To throw one over the bridge="to give up entirely, to utterly forsake one."
You can't get more from a cat than its skin="you can't get out of a creditor more than he has got." ”

“ The blortin' [noisy] cow soon forgets its calf.
'Tis better to lose i' th' kit than i' th' carcase [to lose goods than to suffer bodily injury] .
Weal and woman never pan.
But woe and woman can. [Ray.] ”