old sayings

[Graham47]

One they have here in Wales (allegedly) "There's posh, getting married and not even pregnant!" 

[Jool]

One they have here in Wales (allegedly) "There's posh, getting married and not even pregnant!" 

Brilliant Graham 
It reminded me of another one "She's a posh classy bird, all her tattoos are spelled right"

[Meezer]

Or "she's so posh she takes her Woodbine out to spit"!

[MJW]

A Northern one I think...

"You've p**sed on your chips"  (you've really messed up)

Malcolm

[Simon11]

 

[conahy calling]

That really put the tin hat on it.  .. completely ruined

I would love to know the origins of the tin hat but suspect it might be related to helmets on soldiers, when so many got killed in action.

[Graham47]

One of my old Dad's favorites sayings was that when he was in the Army, he was so skinny he had to run around in the shower to get wet! Many others he had are unrepeatable here. 

[SwissGill]

Seen this on a global forum (mostly US):

Who's pissed in your Cheerios (Kellogs) this morning?

[SwissGill]

One of my old Dad's favorites sayings was that when he was in the Army, he was so skinny he had to run around in the shower to get wet! Many others he had are unrepeatable here. 

I remember one about so one being so skinny, nobody dared to pull out the bath plug?

Also, my Mum always said when she bathed me that I looked like a "Belsen Baby" - I guess I know where this came from.

Off topic, but I think I must have been the only child in the area who was scrubbed with a scrubbing brush to get rid of the dirt from climbing trees, even after I'd washed off the worst beforehand at my friend's house.