old sayings

[jess5athome]

What about "Stop crying before I give you something to cry about" 
Frank.

[jess5athome]

Just thought of another one for someone with "Bow legs",
"He couldn't stop a pig in a gennel"  ( or ginnel depending on how far up north you come from)
Frank.

[everlea]

Forgot to add that as a child I overheard two family members discussing an aunt & uncle who had

13 children, saying "He only has to take his trousers off & she has a baby," and for quite a long time

I believed that to be a fact of life.

(Well, we were more sheltered Back in the Day, weren't we?)

                                                                                                      Everlea.

[Kleftiwallah]

My old engineering instructor used to say, when asked how tight to tighten a bolt  -

 "Tighten it until it sheares then back off one flat" !

Cheers,   Tony.

[groom]

I can remember my grandmother telling my brother that he needed to pull his socks up and start doing something, and then giving him a clout for being cheeky when he bent down to do so. 

The bread and pullit for tea was always a disappointment, as I thought pullit was pullet and expected chicken sandwiches.

[SwissGill]

What was it then?

[jess5athome]

The bread and pullit for tea was always a disappointment, as I thought pullit was pullet and expected chicken sandwiches.

Just had to look that one up....... apparently it's supposed to mean Greased bread on a length of string, .......... swallow the bread and then "Pullit" for the next meal 

Frank.

[groom]

Pull it I presume, as it having a slice of bread and pulling it apart.  It usually ended up as bread and jam as far as I can remember.

[ann255]

Forgot to add that as a child I overheard two family members discussing an aunt & uncle who had
13 children, saying "He only has to take his trousers off & she has a baby," and for quite a long time
I believed that to be a fact of life.
(Well, we were more sheltered Back in the Day, weren't we?)       Everlea.

Priceless!! You should start a new thread Everlea, on misconceptions/misunderstandings from things heard as a child.

Here is another one.  Many of you will remember when people collected silver paper and milk tops for raising money to buy guide dogs.  My daughter thought that the milk bottle tops were used for the poor 'blind dogs so they could see'.  Still cringes now about it.