old sayings

[joboy]

Alien Lady - if someone was scratching their bottom, Dad would say "he's got dirt in his eye".

Similar to this my dad whilst scratching used to say 'I've got an new tooth coming through'

[loobylooayr]

My Ayrshire granny used to say if something was quite right- like a picture hanging crooked on the wall  or curtains not hung right - " It's all aff tae one side like Gourock".
Don't know if Gourock does sit off to the side .

And as for the underskirt showing below the hem of your skirt we used to say "It's raining in Paris" - How quaint

[Lisajj]

"More tea vicar?" Or "someone just stepped on the carpet frog" if someone let wind
If you were sulking, it was referred to as "mardy"
"As mad as a box of frogs"
"We've arrived and to prove it we're here"
"That's my four pen'uth" - said my piece
"Ya daft 'ayputh" - if someone was silly
"Wouldn't touch him with a barge pole"

[joboy]

and keep your hand on your ha'penny! lol                                                 

My God  how I remember that saying

[jess5athome]

Hi, I don't know if it's been said yet,
"Don't cast a clout till may is out"....... as in don't put your summer clothes on till June.
Frank.

[Greensleeves]

From my Suffolk grandmother if I was wishing for something when I was a child:  "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!".  How very true...

[SwissGill]

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

I nearly spluttered tea on to my keyboard

He's in the army now
He went to milk a cow
The cow let off and he flew off
He's in the air force now

[joboy]

Australians will remember 'Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick'

[BevL]

One set of grandparents were from Lancashire and London and the other side was from Ireland and Scotland, so my mother and her sisters came out with a lot of these sayings which are still used in the family today; I remember particularly the 'let wind go free' one which was used frequently when my mother was older and was  walking  along 'letting wind go free'.  My husband says that I am getting like that now!
Keep putting them up on the board!
Bev