old sayings

[Billyblue]

An Oz Prime Minister once stated, and is now often quoted

"Life wasn't meant to be easy"

    

Dawn M

[conahy calling]

Much of a muchness  or  They are the same only different

• Another version is "six of one and half a dozen of the other"

Money

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• Had to buy his sense  (had to learn by his mistakes)
  • More money than sense  (spending foolishly)
  • Money talks
    • Money makes money
  Manners
  • Manners cost nothing
  • Manners make the man
    Hadnt a snowballs chance in hell 
  Better born lucky than rich
  • Done up like a sore toe  (overdressed)
  • Like father, like son
  Rome wasnt built in a day
  • The tide would not even take her out   (miserable looking girl)
  • You would not see him for dust (someone rushing off)
    • A shoulder to cry on
    [   No news is good news
  • Nothing sure in life but death and taxes
  You can pick your friends but not your relations

Old habits die hard   ]

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[MJW]

In anticipation of something unexpected or surprising happening. For example:-
 
If my football team wins the cup, I'll show my a*s* on the Town Hall steps.

Also heard an alternative ending - "in Woolworth's window".

Malcolm

[fizzix]

Well! I'll go to the foot of our stairs! [where on earth does this come from?] 
You could knock me down with a feather

both meaning what a surprise 

[SwissGill]

Many a woman has lost an ardent admirer by marrying him

[conahy calling]

• Love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener
• Save your bacon (save yourself)
  • to take the bull by the horns (to tackle some difficult task)
  • It would skin a brass monkey  (very severe cold wind)
    • Looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses.   
    • Got his eye over the blinkers (man had an affair, didnt stay on straight )
      • A dog is mans best friend
      • Street angel, house devil
        • like a hen finished laying  (very choppy haircut. When the hens laying season is over she begins to moult)
        • Time and tide wait for no one
        Many hands make light work
      The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

[snaptoo]

A slight variation of your 'brass monkey'........

It is cold enough to freeze the b*lls off a brass monkey

[DORAN54]

A slight variation of your 'brass monkey'........

It is cold enough to freeze the b*lls off a brass monkey

that's the one I know!!!

[Lisajj]

Homer Simpson "Less talk, more eat"


Surely we've done the lot by now??