old sayings

[a-l]

Handsome is as handsome does!   How precise.                                                           Happy to see more people are joining in the hilarity! Keep them coming!

[SwissGill]

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

I've come home in all sorts of states but never "unclean"?

But then I've never spent the night in a pigsty 

Can you elucidate?

[a-l]

Must be a boy thing SwissGIll! lol

[keyboard86]

Must be a boy thing SwissGIll! lol

  Yep, a nicer way of saying dirty/muddied etc!
Keyboard86

[Treetotal]

Keyboard...you lie like a flatfish 
Carol

[a-l]

Lol Carol . good one!

[california dreamin]

One from my Granny-

'old Uncle Cobley and all' 

[keyboard86]

One from my Granny-

'old Uncle Cobley and all'

Surely it was Uncle TOM Cobley and all?
Keyboard86

[Treetotal]

Yes...I know it as "Uncle Tom Cobley" too.
Carol