Old Sayings and Modern Counterparts

[jaybelnz]

I just googled that Hut Sut song, it's on you tube!  And a big Wiki on it too.
Re the petticoat, we used to say "it's snowing down south"

Jeanne

[MaxD]

WARNING! - Earworm

I made the mistake of looking at the Internet Archive film of the 1940 version of the Hut Sut song by Soundie  https://archive.org/details/soundie_1

Now I can't get it out of my head - massive earworm!

maxD

[Trees]

We're enjoying a thunderstorm right now and I just declared "its coming down in stair rods" to the bewilderment of the young folk. When did you last see a stair rod?

[Nettie]

Never heard the one before.
Raining cats and dogs, Coming down in buckets and P*****g down, I'm familiar with.

[Mike in Cumbria]

We're enjoying a thunderstorm right now and I just declared "its coming down in stair rods" to the bewilderment of the young folk. When did you last see a stair rod?

That was a common phrase when  I was young, and we did have stair-rods. Can't remember the last time I saw any though.

[jaybelnz]

It's raining its pouring, the old man's snoring!.

Jeanne 

[DavidG02]

He bumped his head on the end of the bed

[MaxD]

And couldn't get up in the morning

(memo to self - must find something useful to do!)

[jaybelnz]

 . LOL