old sayings

[Treetotal]

"You can't put an old head on young shoulders"

"Too long in the tooth"

Carol

[Meezer]

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

I remember working in an office where someone had a geranium plant on the windowsill and that comment was made about the possibility of it flowering - next day it was sporting a red (plastic) bloom!  Don't think the threat of exposure was carried out though!

[TropiConsul]

My Glasgow-born grandmother would sometimes say, "Now there's a pretty kettle of fish!"  I understood her to mean that the object in view was a disgusting mess or an insoluble problem.  I have learned that this expression derives from a Scottish form of picnic.  You take a kettle to the stream and catch a salmon, boil it up, and serve the pink mess to the company.  Boiled salmon seems a disgusting way to serve up the noblest of fish.  I'll have mine smoked, or baked, or broiled! 

[Yonks Ago]

not an old saying but some good Aussie one's

I'll go and have a Captain Cook.
go for a look

Froth and Bubble
means trouble

Watch out for Joe Blakes.
snakes

Amber fluid : beer

Cut snake :
(mad as a) very angry

Yonks

[IMBER]

The best thing to come out of Edinburgh is the train to Glasgow.

Imber

[BevL]

Hi,
A couple of what I think are Australian sayings:
As long as your a*se faces the ground.
Up sh*t creek without a paddle
Pissed as a parrot
Thinks the sun shines out of her bum
That will stop you farting in church!
Happy as Larry!
Mutton dressed up as lamb.
Kind regards
Bev
Hope I haven't repeated any one else's sayings 

[a-l]

Ship shape and Bristol fashion and batten down the hatches.

[a-l]

When I said it's not fair the reply was well it's not raining.     When I asked "why?" it was cos y's y and not z.

[Treetotal]

On being cross eyed...

"One eye's that beautiful the other can't stop looking at it"

On sulking..."That face would turn milk sour"

Carol