old sayings

[Maggie.]

Cough it up, it might be a gold watch 

Variation in my part of the world ........... Cough it up, it might be a lung .......... ughhhhhhh 

[Billyblue]

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Variation in my part of the world ........... Cough it up, it might be a lung .......... ughhhhhhh 
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Or.... Cough it up, if it's only a brick it will relieve you!        

Dawn M

[a-l]

Very wary of coughing now

[Treetotal]

"It's not the cough that carries you off..it's the coffin they carry you off in"
Carol

[conahy calling]

Not the gooseberry bush or mulberry with us.  It used to be "found you under a head of cabbage"

Conahy is that a local saying ? I have never heard that one before.

I ve heard it numerous times around Kilkenny, but unable to say if more widespread than that

• When you buy meat, you buy bones,
  • when you buy a field, you buy stones.

[jbml]

I had that one in verse:

Who buys good meat buys many bones
Who buys good land buys many stones
Who buys good eggs buys many shells
Who buys good beer buys nothing else

(It's not true, of course ... he probably buys a bottle ... )


There's now't so queer as folk

[Guyana]

As daft as Dick's hatband, or

As soft as a boiled turnip. (pronounced ("byled tarenip")

[molly90]

Saturday night stitching (uneven sewing because you have done it in
a hurry before you go out on a Saturday night)

or 'you and who's army' if someone try's to threaten you.

[MJW]

As a small child I remember asking where I came from and being told I came from a twinkle in my father's eye . Wow! Magic!

I remember being told that I was found under a mulberry bush.

Malcolm

Thinking more about this, I think it was "under a gooseberry bush" that I was told.

Just checked on its origin - see link below.  Now, that did surprise me !!

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110831051116AA67AyQ

Same meaning is on Wikipedia.

Malcolm