old sayings

[a-l]

If you pulled a face someone would say "careful, if the wind blows you'll stick like it"

oh and I wondered if its just local to the Midlands, but a common phrase when retelling a conversation -
"and I turned round and said..."  Why do you turn round to say???  I have heard myself saying it!!  But why?

Turned round and said has always amused me, seems like a conversation between two whirling dervishes!

[joboy]

The three 'B's ....  'Bull***t  Baffles Brains'

[Lucinda12]

My grandmother always used to say, if there was any disquiet in the family and other members of the family would say they were going to put their tuppence worth in 'the quiet what's the best way' and as I've got older I realise she was right!

[Lucinda12]

Sorry! Should read 'the quiet way's the best way'

[Treetotal]

she had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

I can just picture that - thank goodness I've just finished my coffee

Happy Birthday SwissGill....a photo of Sale from my collection. c. 1940s

Carol

[Treetotal]

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 )

Happy Birthday Jean...you share it with SwissGill 

Carol

[Flattybasher9]

"I am trying to recall one about twixt and tween and having no luck."

Betwixt and between a hard place.
Between a rock and a hard place.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Malky

[Treetotal]

betwixt and between," which actually comes from the old South in the United States. It means that you are neither one nor the other - that you are in the middle. The phrase has often been associated with an unresolvable situation.

Carol

[stevew101]

Have we had -

Cut off your nose to spite your face

Steve