old sayings

[Lucinda12]

Bad teeth: 'he's got teeth like a row of condemned houses'
A bad overbite: 'a shamgab'
When coming back from an unsuccessful shopping trip, when you asked what they got: 'what Paddy shot at the loch'
A ladies large hat:' you could've went round the brim of it on a bike
Someone with a flat face:'looks like somebody sat on it when it was warm'

[a-l]

So funny Lucinda, haven't heard any of those before.

[Maggie.]

Just thought of another ........

'Gerrit spent, they don't put pockits i' shrouds'

This is on a sign above our village shop. (Lancashire)

[a-l]

Lol brilliant!

[Lucinda12]

On listening to a mean person complaining about how much money they had to spend on something:'I've lost more running for a bus!'

[Annui]

This is one my grandmother used a lot, and which I've always thought related to some local woman, a Fanny Watson - until now:

"She/he's as fat as Fanny Watson".

I idly Googled the name this morning and find Fanny Watson was a gal who preached that dancing is the best way to lose weight.

<i>New York City. — Too fat? Lots of people are — but not many have the thrilling experience of Fanny Watson, who awoke one morning to find herself getting thinner and getting paid for it.</i>

https://yesteryearsnews.wordpress.com/tag/fanny-watson/

Still.... how my grandmother, in a teeny tiny village in East Yorkshire, came to know about a dancer in New York - that's still a mystery.

[radstockjeff]

"That made he suh wild as a buck, young'un"   (He got very cross about something)

radstockjeff

[leka]

"upstairs to the blanked show"-when it was time for bed.

when someone was tight with money-"as tight as a ducks a**e"

[Treetotal]

Our version was "Up the wooden hill to Bedlington..lay your head on the weeping willow and get some bo-peep".
Carol