Ordinary people and their idioms and use of simile and metaphore can grasp the essence of things very poetically.

The other day we were clearing snow and a local chap who used to work in the steelworks from the age of 15 came out with the following , saying 'The snow up here's as crusty as old Betty's keks' ( Bet5ty being a local mucky woman)


This was shortly followed by the use of alliteration when his shovel broke


' F... the f...in' f....er it's f...in' f....d!


We are in the land where Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written