Favourite old sayings

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Here's a couple of mine.

Somebody with only a couple of teeth left in the front of the mouth = "Look he's got central heating" (central eating)

"About as much use as a condom machine in a nunnery"
 
Talking about living higher up the fellside where it is "a top coat colder..." I think this is so expressive, says so much in so few words
 
Just chatting with some friends about this sort of thing yesterday! Someone said their Mum used to say "red hat, no knickers" and another piped up with "fur coat no knickers" ! I'm guessing they used to reckon only a certain type of female would wear them ;)

Then there's 'blue and green should never be seen' but someone else said 'red and green should never be seen except on an Irish queen' - no idea what that's about.

Someone else said that square meal comes from having square bits of wood as plates on old ships... they'd have thin battens running across the table, so the plates would fit in and wouldn't slide about.

We lived in America for a while about 20 years ago and some of the slight differences in expressions used to make us laugh. We say "haven't done that in donkey's years" whereas the Americans would say "haven't done that in a cow's age" :D Do you think someone on the Mayflower got their animals wrong and it stuck? :lol-053:

I've had an old paperback for about 40 years called "To Coin a Phrase" and it's full of sayings and their meanings. I'll dig it out sometime and share some good ones.
 
sledge said:
Cooking your own goose Face like a well smacked arse As much use as tits on a bull As much use as an ash tray on a motorbike and a couple my dad uses He had a hump on his back like a dog taking a **** over a half door He was as short as cat ****e [ both meaning someone was cross ] and I hope no one will take offense at this one never give an english man a job in the morning your telling him how to do the job by dinner time hes telling you.
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sledge what does the 1st one mean?
 
Ill take my haun (hand) aff yer face
If you see a stick, cut it
as weird as a bottle of chips
shut it or ill shut it for you
Stop crying or ill give you something to cry for

A few that aren't too risky :)
 
daft as a box of frogs. sandwich short of a picnic, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, lights are on but there"s nobody in, happy as larry{ who"s larry?}
 
Minisorella said:
Just chatting with some friends about this sort of thing yesterday! Someone said their Mum used to say "red hat, no knickers" and another piped up with "fur coat no knickers" ! I'm guessing they used to reckon only a certain type of female would wear them ;)

Then there's 'blue and green should never be seen' but someone else said 'red and green should never be seen except on an Irish queen' - no idea what that's about.

Someone else said that square meal comes from having square bits of wood as plates on old ships... they'd have thin battens running across the table, so the plates would fit in and wouldn't slide about.

We lived in America for a while about 20 years ago and some of the slight differences in expressions used to make us laugh. We say "haven't done that in donkey's years" whereas the Americans would say "haven't done that in a cow's age" :D Do you think someone on the Mayflower got their animals wrong and it stuck? :lol-053:

I've had an old paperback for about 40 years called "To Coin a Phrase" and it's full of sayings and their meanings. I'll dig it out sometime and share some good ones.
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Fur coat no knickers I love it I've heard it before and I can just imagine some prim and proper old biddy saying that.
 
MORGANTHEMOON said:
Fur coat no knickers I love it I've heard it before and I can just imagine some prim and proper old biddy saying that.
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Now do they mean something like this?? Definitely not a knicker in sight!!

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Or perhaps more like this???

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If ONLY!! maybe in my miss-spent youth, but no longer, alas!!

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one i've never understood is when a girls petticoat is showing or a lads underpants hanging out of his short trousers,we'd point and shout'charleys dead !' [for those who remember petticoats,or for that matter,short trousers]
 
If it's wee, let it be
If it's brown, flush it down
If it's green, eat less bean
If it's black, SEE THE QUACK

(helps if you have small children with tiny nocturnal bladders)

But my two favourite sayings: first, you can judge the character of a man from how he treats those for whom he has no use, and who can do him no harm; second, those who sit in judgment on others are always surprised to find themselves judged in turn.

tafka
 
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and who was it that said, you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead :) laurel and hardy
 
a camping one;rather have him inside the tent pissing out.than outside pissing in,and' he couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the sole'
 
if you do anything for nothing do it for yourself (translated from the original "if yer do out for nowt do it for thee sen")
 
When i was a kid, if my Mum was asked what was for tea she'd say 'Wigwams for ducks to swim in' !!?? Never understood it:confused:

Sue:)
 
suej said:
When i was a kid, if my Mum was asked what was for tea she'd say 'Wigwams for ducks to swim in' !!?? Never understood it:confused:

Sue:)
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My Dad's version was "Wimwams for ducks to peek on" - which is even weirder and you knew it was time to shut up! I have absolutely no idea what it meant or where it came from.
 
I was born in Poland and my father had hundreds. They don't translate as well but the meaning is till there.
Laughing like an idiot at a piece of cheese.

Wandering round like a Jew in an empty shop.

What the deaf don't hear they imagine( sounds better in the original)
 
when recently my wife mentioned to her mother [who is nearly 90]that we had bought a motorhome she said "well home is best so take it with you" and one from me"if your auntie had balls she'd be your uncle"
 
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