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Re: old sayings
« Reply #756 on: Friday 08 November 13 10:06 GMT (UK) »
I totally agree with you msr - I can't understand either why this topic has been allowed to run and run on this particular board. As you say, it is time for it to either finish or be moved to the ToT board. I am sure that anyone coming across this for the first time is not going to plough through all the pages to see if their saying has been mentioned, so repetition will start.

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« Reply #757 on: Friday 08 November 13 12:40 GMT (UK) »
Here, here.
BROWNING - Kent
DEARING - Kent
FOORD - Kent and Essex
GARRITY - Kent and Essex
GIBBS - Kent
HARE - Essex
JENNINGS - Essex
KEMPTON - Kent
PERKINS - Kent
PETTIT - Suffolk and Essex
RICHARDS - Kent
SIMMONS - Kent
THOMPSON - Suffolk

CLAYDON - NSW,AUSTRALIA

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #758 on: Friday 08 November 13 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Can I just add my support to what msr has said.  I was amazed to see that this thread was still alive and still on The Lighter Side, when in my opinion it belongs on the ToT board.  76 pages  ???.  Surely there cannot be any old sayings left to mention!!
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Re: old sayings
« Reply #759 on: Friday 08 November 13 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Can I have your dog end?      someone asking a person smoking for his cigarette end/ ;D
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« Reply #760 on: Friday 08 November 13 16:28 GMT (UK) »
Let sleeping dogs lie.  That MUST have been mentioned umpteen times ..... but I'm not reading back to check.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #761 on: Friday 08 November 13 16:38 GMT (UK) »
Elvis has left the building.

Will someone please lock the door - NOW!

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #762 on: Friday 08 November 13 16:41 GMT (UK) »
Let sleeping dogs lie. 

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Not to mention 'flogging a dead horse'.


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« Reply #763 on: Friday 08 November 13 16:53 GMT (UK) »
Many a true word spoken in jest ........ except you're not jesting are you msr?
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« Reply #764 on: Friday 08 November 13 17:02 GMT (UK) »
As dead as a dodo
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