old sayings

[joboy]

My dear old uncle Bert (cockney) used to say;
'Now that I'm old the only thing that gets hard are my arteries' 
He was a funny man

[Rishile]

One of my mum's favourites when seeing a woman in a strange hat

Lost in London, found under hat.

Rishile

[a-l]

I was often told your eyes are bigger than your belly. If only that were true now.

[a-l]

When my Grandad saw an elderly person walking in the cemetery he would say it's hardly worth them going home lol

[conahy calling]

If his brains were dynamite, he would nt have enough to blow his nose!    In other words not very smart.

• He will cool in the water he boiled in.    (He will eventually calm down)

There s no flies on him, and if there are, they re dead ones.     (You would nt fool him)
She d mind mice at a crossroads.      (Very careful esp with money)

[SwissGill]

When my Grandad saw an elderly person walking in the cemetery he would say it's hardly worth them going home lol

When my husband sees someone who looks like death warmed up, he says "Look another graveyard deserter" origin Swiss German or German.

[a-l]

I like that SwissGill

[Flattybasher9]

You can pick your friends, but not your family.

Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people.

Graveyards have walls as people are dying to get in.

Don't build your house on a dry river bed.

[Treetotal]

"Don't pick your nose your head will cave in"

Carol