old sayings

[Annui]

Lots of good stuff here! 

I thought of a couple more this evening:
"Many a mickle makes a muckle"  (a lot of small things eventually make a big thing - pennies make pounds etc.)

American husband said - I always smile when you say:
"Much of a muchness"  (describing two or more thing between which there's not a lot of difference).
It's probably a saying I picked up from parents and grandparents back in Yorkshire.

[Flattybasher9]

Lang may yer lum reek.

[joboy]

'Cenknph ?? Wilts'  in the 1871 census under where born  .......... was really Penknap

[Treetotal]

Lang may yer lum reek.

This phrase is written on an old army photo that I have of my Uncle and I have always wondered what it means?

Carol

[Guyana]

"Lang may yer lumb reek!" is a Scottish wish for "Long may your chimney smoke!"

Local sayings our ours, (Not quite Bed'uth, lisajj);

"You've got more aches and pains than old Charlie Hunt."
"Come in and shut the door! You're in and out like a dog at a fair!"
"I've about had a belly-full of you!"
"Wheer's me Mam?" --- "Er's run of wi a black mon!"  - "Er's up a tree aback o' the church."  - "Er's up a sough (drain, pronounced suff) at Bos'orth."
"Mardy a**se -(misery guts)  "Titty babby" (cry baby)
"This wu'nt buy the babby a new pinner!" (pinafore)
"I could eat a mon off 'is 'oss."
Someone moving fast, "like a rot (rat) up a suff."

[flipflops]

Mum used to say 'it's an ill wind that blows no good at all' 

Dad used to ask children (mostly ) 'hello - how's your belly off for spots?'

Auntie used to say 'I'm not so green as I'm cabbage looking.'

[a-l]

I can't believe I had forgotten mickles and muckles ! Thanks Annui. When things were similar , my Grandma would say they are the same only different!                She did appear to have a lot of neighbours who were "flibbertygibbets" lol

[a-l]

Guyana, thanks for explaining that , I would never have guessed.                         Seems a national pastime  , mothers running away with black men lol. Love to know its origins.

[lisalucie]

Guyana, thanks for explaining that , I would never have guessed.                         Seems a national pastime  , mothers running away with black men lol. Love to know its origins.

Yep that's said here too, although we changed it to "batman" for my daughter who would repeat things VERY LOUDLY lol x