Which word or phrase from where you grew up confuses other people?

[BrayWyatt_WCW]

The UK and Ireland alone have hundreds of local words, and the rest of the English speaking world adds thousands more. Move a few miles down the road and suddenly nobody knows what you mean. A bread roll might be a bap, a barm, a batch, a cob or a bun, depending on where you are standing. Arguments about this can go on for hours

Some words are pure dialect, like mardy, canny, nesh, ginnel or bostin. Others are phrases that make perfect sense at home and none at all elsewhere. Then there are words that mean completely different things in different places, which can lead to some awkward conversations

My own example is the word tea, meaning the evening meal. Growing up in the north, tea was what you ate at six o'clock. When I moved south, I invited a friend round for tea, and she arrived expecting a cup and a biscuit rather than shepherd's pie. We still laugh about it

Members from outside the UK are very welcome here too. American, Australian, Canadian and Irish English all have their own quirks, and so do people who speak English as a second language. Words borrowed from other languages often make the best stories

Which word or phrase from where you grew up confuses other people? And what does it mean?