old sayings

[stevew101]

Old Soldiers saying -

If it moves then oil it.  If it dosn't move, then paint it.

Steve

[everlea]

ann255 - thanks, I've really enjoyed sharing that one!

Before I think about starting anything else(mis-speaks, perhaps? I've got some great ones, all true!)

how about some sayings that aren't, as far as I know, particularly old, but deserve to live on?

"As limp as a vicar's handshake" - can mean exhausted, but anything limp, really.

"As camp as a row of tents" - effeminate etc.

"As wet as a haddock's bathing costume" - an ineffectual person.
                                                                                                 
                                                                                                       Everlea.

[a-l]

Great stuff.more hilarity! I had forgotten most of those everlea.                                  three sheets to the wind.                             a sandwich short of a picnic.                        a brick missing from a wall.                         

[SwissGill]

I thought we must have exhausted the sayings by now but each new saying ruttles my memory:


The lights are on but there's no one at home

[SwissGill]

I live in a secluded village in the middle of Switzerland.

Imagine my surprise when walking the dog, I passed a van bearing a message in the windscreen:

If it's got tits or wheels, you have problems

I have a little giggle each morning

[a-l]

made me laugh swissgill

[everlea]

I live in a secluded village in the middle of Switzerland.

Imagine my surprise when walking the dog, I passed a van bearing a message in the windscreen:

If it's got tits or wheels, you have problems

I have a little giggle each morning

Brilliant! Love that!

Took me ages to get the nightie/fur collar link on previous post. Must be slipping.

You're a bad, bad girl!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                            Everlea.

                                                                     

[a-l]

There's nowt so queer as folk.                    SwissGill . loved the fur nightie!  As for                Don't come running to me when you break your leg. My Mum was in her fifties before she realised and she had used that all her life!

[keyboard86]

  Have not as of yet read through all the posts, but hopefully I am not repeating one mentioned earlier, my Mother and Father used to say if I I had come home in a unclean state, " You're as black as Newgates Knocker" Newgate being pronounced as Newgits ( Referring to the colour of the knocker on the door of Newgate prison) so I was told?!

Keyboard86