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Re: old sayings
« Reply #378 on: Friday 20 September 13 01:52 BST (UK) »
An Oz Prime Minister once stated, and is now often quoted

"Life wasn't meant to be easy"

 ;D  ;D  ;D

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #379 on: Friday 20 September 13 09:16 BST (UK) »
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    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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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #380 on: Friday 20 September 13 10:40 BST (UK) »
    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".

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    Thornley, Heyes – Lancashire/Clayton-le-Moors
    Emmett – Lancashire/Chorley, Blackburn
    Nightingale, Livesey, Warburton, Gorton – Lancashire/Blackburn, Darwen
    Kilshaw - Lancaster
    Mahoney – Oswaldtwistle, Ireland
    Brennan – E.Lancs., Tipperary

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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #381 on: Friday 20 September 13 11:08 BST (UK) »
    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  :D :D
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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #382 on: Friday 20 September 13 12:11 BST (UK) »
    Many a woman has lost an ardent admirer by marrying him
    Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
    Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
    Owen: Cheshire
    Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
    Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
    Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
    Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
    Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
    Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
    Volpp: Morsbach B-W
    Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #383 on: Friday 20 September 13 16:35 BST (UK) »
    • 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

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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #384 on: Friday 20 September 13 16:55 BST (UK) »
    A slight variation of your 'brass monkey'........

    It is cold enough to freeze the b*lls off a brass monkey
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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #385 on: Friday 20 September 13 17:05 BST (UK) »
    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!!!

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    Re: old sayings
    « Reply #386 on: Friday 20 September 13 21:39 BST (UK) »
    Homer Simpson "Less talk, more eat"


    Surely we've done the lot by now?????
     ;D
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