old sayings

[stevew101]

A whistling girl and a crowing hen always come to a bad end.

[Jean McGurn]

Another two come to mind:

As rare as hen's teeth

and

As often as Preston Guild   (which I have since found out after nearly 60 years is every 10 years and I always thought never )

[a-l]

A little bird told me. (that bird was on my hit list). A variation being it was Ickey the one eyed bloke.                                                     

[a-l]

Since the start of this thread I 've laughed and laughed and  I'm so enjoying the enthusiasm in here , thankyou everyone for making this such a wonderful, fun thread.                                                            Sue

[Treetotal]

Me too 

If wit was sh*t he'd be constipated...work it out with a pencil!

Carol

[flipflops]

when confused (don't know how old this is) 'doesn't know his/her a :-Xs from his/her elbow'

'if you don't get a move on you'll meet yourself coming back'

dad used to say 'eeh by gum lad - if ever a man suffered it was I' don't know if it was from a radio show.

[Maggie.]

'Its a wigwam for ducks to look through'

Where on earth did that one come from? 

When I was very small I would sit by my Mum (of Yorkshire roots) and watch her nimble fingers making little toys for me. Whenever I asked what she was making she would answer with the wigwam reply. I knew what a wigwam was, and obviously the ducks, but for the life in me I could never understand what those ducks were doing in the wigwam and what relevance it had to whatever she was making.

I'm only on page 11 of reading this wonderful thread, which is bringing back a lot of memories, so apologies if this one has already been mentioned. 

Maggie 

[Maggie.]

And to nearly answer my own question ..........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_wigwam_for_a_goose's_bridle

Not that anyone in the family hailed from Australia - at least not to our knowledge back then.

 

[Maggie.]

Oi...be careful....some of us are not only from Yorkshire...but Hull too 


Carol

And others of us from Halifax