Old Sayings and Modern Counterparts

[jbml]

Whenever my mother had been relaxing, but needed to get on with things, she'd sigh "Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet", then she'd put down the book she'd been reading (or the crossword, or whatever) and bustle off to do the washing or the ironing or whatever.

[andrewalston]

"This is neither fishing nor mending nets" was used to mean doing nothing, usually followed by standing up and doing SOMETHING. Today's youth would have trouble with either concept. "Hanging out" doesn't quite fit.

My mum has always used the verb "pinder" to describe the fat on bacon becoming crisp. Not in any dictionary I've come across. They all go on about collecting stray sheep, but the bacon fat situation is otherwise just crying out for a proper word. I'm going to carry on using pinder.

[Billyblue]

Whenever my mother had been relaxing, but needed to get on with things, she'd sigh "Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet", then she'd put down the book she'd been reading (or the crossword, or whatever) and bustle off to do the washing or the ironing or whatever.

And my mum (and I've followed her  ) used to say "well this won't get the baby bathed"

      

Dawn M

[bykerlads]

Thank you, JED.
After all these years I now know the origins of  " you just get up them Dancers" meaning " get upstairs to bed"
Rhyming slang used in West Yorks in the 1950's.Amazing.
( and woe betide you if you didn't move quick and get to bed!!)

[Treetotal]

We used the term "Dancers" but my Dad used to often say..."Off you go up the apples and pears...lay your head on the weeping willow and get some Bo Peep" 
Carol

[ThrelfallYorky]

I'd heard the term "Get off up them Dickie-Dancers" used by an elderly man to a child many years back, but no-one seemed to know who or what "Dickie Dancers" referred to..

[deebel]

We called a pound note a "Greenback" and a Theepenny Bit a "Threpenny Dodger" a shilling was a "Bob" and sixpence was a "Tanner" ..Two shillings was a  "Florin"
Carol

Florin is English spelling for the Irish word for Two shillings.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Irish_coin)

No, a Florin is a Florin in British Money. A victorian 2 bob bit said "One Florin" not "Two Shillings"

Florins would be in circulation in Ireland before Irish Independence when an Irish Florin was struck

[Treetotal]

Thanks for the explanation., I always wondered why it was referred to as a Florin.
Carol

[Top-of-the-hill]

   My mother used to say, holding up a a rather worn out garment, "this is more holy than righteous".