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Re: old sayings
« Reply #351 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 18:16 BST (UK) »
And

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

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #352 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 18:49 BST (UK) »
the barber's cat?

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #353 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 19:35 BST (UK) »
"Daft as a brush"

and speaking of brushes...

"living over'd brush"  i.e. living together without benefit (?) of wedlock.   ;)
Scott, Bulpitt, Midgley, Bracegirdle. Suffolk, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, East Yorkshire.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #354 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 21:44 BST (UK) »
"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?"
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Re: old sayings
« Reply #355 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 21:55 BST (UK) »
"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!   :-\
Scott, Bulpitt, Midgley, Bracegirdle. Suffolk, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, East Yorkshire.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #356 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 22:17 BST (UK) »
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"

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #357 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 23:31 BST (UK) »
Red sky at night shepherd's house on fire!

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« Reply #358 on: Thursday 19 September 13 09:45 BST (UK) »
Red sky at night shepherds/sailors delight. Red sky in the morning shepherds/sailors warning.

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BROWNING - Kent
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« Reply #359 on: Thursday 19 September 13 09:47 BST (UK) »
    • 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