old sayings

[radstockjeff]

Silent f**t

"Speak up Brown, you're through now"

radstockjeff

[Treetotal]

 
Carol

[a-l]

absolutely cracking up now lol, radstockjeff , classic!

[ann255]

If your ears were burning, right ear it was your mother talking about you and if the left, your lover!

If I asked mu mum  what was for lunch I often got told 'ifit'. When I looked puzzled I was told 'if it comes you'll have some and if it don't you won't.'

An expression used to denote someone who was very mean.  'she'd skin a turd for a farthing'. (hope I have not offended!)

[Treetotal]

Great stuff...on greed..."He could peel an orange in his pocket"....or..."Squeeze a penny til the Queen cried for mercy"

Carol

[joboy]

Great stuff...on greed..."He could peel an orange in his pocket"....or..."Squeeze a penny til the Queen cried for mercy"

Carol

or 'He has short arms and deep pockets'

[Annui]

Husband is watching Letterman in the Late Show (TV) here in the US - someone with a British accent in a skit on the show happened to say ...."so Bob's yer uncle" - and husband fell about laughing and asking me what it meant.  LOL! 
I said "Well, Bob's yer uncle and Fanny's yer aunt!"
I thought that clarified it rather well..

[Jean McGurn]

More Lancashire ones:
"Yer standin' there like one o' Lewis's"  = You're not making yourself very useful

In Liverpool this used to refer to Lewis's department store (that which had the naked man on the prow of a boat) and meant the women of the night who stood out side.

One of old saying used in those days was if you were climbing mother would say "Don't come running to me if you fall off and break your leg"

[joboy]

'Get back in Burton's winder' was a cockney retort to a posh gentleman inferring that he looked like a dummy in Montague Burton's menswear shop window (see 'Full Monty')