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Re: old sayings
« Reply #477 on: Tuesday 01 October 13 18:27 BST (UK) »
Thanks RadstockJeff lol

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« Reply #478 on: Tuesday 01 October 13 23:20 BST (UK) »
many hands make light work.                    Too many cooks spoil the broth.                 Idle hands do the devils work.                     Sweating buckets / cobs.

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« Reply #479 on: Wednesday 02 October 13 05:55 BST (UK) »
It's like teaching Hindu to a Beagle
Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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« Reply #480 on: Wednesday 02 October 13 08:54 BST (UK) »
  • She nearly "had a canary" ;D when she saw the pup digging in the flowerbed
  • Any port in a storm
    • Its never too late to learn
    • Nothing ventured, nothing gained


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« Reply #481 on: Wednesday 02 October 13 10:27 BST (UK) »
SwissGill that is hilarious and a new one to me.                                                                                                                                      Conahy calling ...a canary? lol

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« Reply #482 on: Wednesday 02 October 13 10:32 BST (UK) »
Neither a borrower or a lender be.

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« Reply #483 on: Wednesday 02 October 13 16:43 BST (UK) »
There is none so deaf as those who don't want to hear.

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« Reply #484 on: Thursday 03 October 13 06:31 BST (UK) »
Wouldn't touch him/her with a 40ft barge pole
six of one, half a dozen of the other
Between you, me and the gatepost (in confidence)
Deaf as a doorknob
wouldn't work in an iron lung
Get off your high horse
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
Bev
MOORE (Kent) & FRENCH (Sussex) & Western Australia, LOVE (Kent), ROPER 1810 (N Ireland). ADAM 1808 (Paisley), Scotland, Victoria & West Aust, TROTTER 1700's onwards  Northern Ireland, Scotland & Aust, FLAHERTY 1791/2 (Ireland) CHAPMAN (Kent) &  Western Australia, CARROLL & POWER. Ireland & Western  Australia, FISHER  Lancashire & Western Australia, FIDLER Denton, Lancashire, Victoria, MARSH Essex & Western Australia, COOPER - Southwark, London, Victoria
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« Reply #485 on: Thursday 03 October 13 07:03 BST (UK) »

Less said soonest mended
If in doubt say nowt
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