old sayings

[radstockjeff]

And

"like the barber's cat - all p**s and wind"

radstockjeff

[a-l]

the barber's cat?

[Annui]

"Daft as a brush"

and speaking of brushes...

"living over'd brush"  i.e. living together without benefit (?) of wedlock.   

[Lisajj]

"as camp as a row of tents"
"the grass is always greener on the other side"
"as useful as a chocolate tea pot"
"is the Pope a Catholic?"

[Annui]

"Where there's muck there's money" or alternative Yorkshire version "where there's muck there's brass".
 A questionable premise that though, at least these days!   

[MJW]

Just catching up on this thread after a holiday.  Some really funny ones, lots of memory joggers and many I've not heard before.

Here are some I remember (don't think they've been posted before).

- describing someone as "neither use nor ornament"   (self-explanatory I think).

- "I did'nae come down the Clyde on a bike"  (my Scottish mother-in-law used this a lot)

- "as fit as a shunter's tom-cat"   (presumably a variation on butcher's dog)
 
- "they've done a flit"   (moved house, usually quickly)

- "it's neither nowt nor summat"

Malcolm

[Meezer]

Red sky at night shepherd's house on fire!

[ann255]

Red sky at night shepherds/sailors delight. Red sky in the morning shepherds/sailors warning.

A weather forecast!

[conahy calling]

• As mean as dyke water
• He d skin a flea for a hapenny (halfpenny)
  • He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day
  • The pen is mightier than the sword.
    • Paper never refused ink
    • As poor as a church mouse
      • Where there a will theres a way
        • Necessity is the mother of invention
          • God loves a trier
          • Where theres a will theres a thousand relatives
          The apple never falls far from the tree
        Breeding comes out through the handle of a sprong  (we inherit all our characteristics)
      Easy come, easy go ( money got easily, is readily spent)
    Money/women are the source of all evil
  A trouble shared is a trouble halved
  • What the eye dont see, the heart dont feel
  • Out of sight, out of mind
    • Live and let live
      • You cant teach an old dog new tricks
      • You never miss the water till the water runs dry
      Absence makes the heart grow fonder
    • Cold hands, warm heart
    the proof of the pudding is in the eating
  Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
  • Boys will be boys, they love making noise.
  • Silence is golden
    • If you cant beat them, join them
      Many a top cat was the underdog
      
    If you were in love with a dungheap, you wouldnt see a straw out of place!
  You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb
  • Like two cats with one mouse, two women in one house can never agree
  • One fool makes many
  Truth comes in wine