old sayings

[BevL]

Just used this in conversation and to make sure I remember it putting it down now:
This person is so short they are "knee high to a grasshopper"
It's annoying isn't it - you think of these sayings and when it comes 'to put pen to paper' you have forgotten them.
Bev

[radstockjeff]

Not sure if these have been on here.

"As thick as two short planks"

When something was lost  " It's probably up ,in Annie's room behind the clock"

radstockjeff

[conahy calling]

• Birds of a feather flock together

[snaptoo]

I would not touch that with a (sterilised) bargepole

[llunwen]

My grandmother comforted me when I had broken something with:
it was nobody's mother or father

[bugle boy]

where were you going,when I saw you coming back.?

[bugle boy]

     I'll draw my face across your hand.

and answering a question with a question,    "You Wont Have A Drink?"  "Will You?"

[conahy calling]

• Better safe than sorry
• You cannot put the clock back (you cannot undo whats already done)
  • A wet and windy May fills the barns with lots of hay

[SwissGill]

Not sure if these have been on here.

"As thick as two short planks"

When something was lost  " It's probably up ,in Annie's room behind the clock"

radstockjeff

 

And if anyone asks where you are:

I'm in the candle, pushing the wick up