old sayings

[iluleah]

This is not really a quote, but it 'fits' in here.. you know when children buy their teacher a present, it used to be homemade and only when they left the school,( not annually and a mug with 'best teacher' on it)

I used to always say  to my kids "Only the educated are free" ( sorry I can't remember who said it, but I pinched it and used it all the time when they moaned about homework or they 'can't' do this or that) one year a little girl gave me a cushion she had made as she was off to 'big school' on it,  it said " Thankyou for my freedom" I treasure that and yes I cried

[lisalucie]

Lisalucie, those black country sayings made me giggle, I remember them all.  My black country grandad used to refer to to the dog as "the wammal".

Just remembered another.....  "She looks like blancmange in a sprout bag" when referring to a larger lady wearing too tight clothes showing her bulges.

A woman in an ill fitting outfit looks like "a sack of Taytas (potatoes)" and we use Wammal too. Babby for the young ones in a family and if someone's scratching their bum (as mentioned above) they've "got a fly in their eye" lol...love this thread x

[Treetotal]

These are hilarious and bring back memories...I remember the comments said about anyone with a big wobbly posterior being likened to "Pigs fighting under a blanket" 
And for those with an ample set of front teeth..."Teeth like gravestones".....or "Piano keys"

Keep 'em coming...we could get a book out of this for charity

Carol

[Jool]

A man I worked with years ago used to say "Ooohh I'd drink her bathwater" when seeing a pretty girl.  He also used to say "thank your mother for the peelings" which I never really understood 

[radstockjeff]

Cold enough for a new bootlace!

radstockjeff

[SwissGill]

A face like Crewe Junction

Like a straw in a duck's bottom - young girl smoking for the first time

[stevew101]

What's for tea? - bread and catchit

Bread and Pullet in this area.

And when the children came in dirty from playing they were told they were  "As Black as Newgates Knoocker".  I think they were referring to the door knocker on Newgate prison.

Steve

[a-l]

SwissGill your Dad sounds a scream!          Jool and lisalucie , so funny and descriptive the image of a blanchmange in a sprout bag will stay with me permanently!                                                 Radstockjeff, a bootlace ? lol

[a-l]

where'er you be,let your wind go free. In church or chapel let it rattle!