Old Sayings and Modern Counterparts

[jaybelnz]

👍  LUV YOUR LOL!  LOL!
Please, what is an Allan Sugar?

Jeanne😀

[KGarrad]

If you pay peanuts= Not everyone is an Allan Sugar.
Plus I only found out recently that LOL does not mean Lots of Love. Did on all letters I wrote.

Lord Allan Suger - founder of Amstrad, and the boss on The Apprentice!

LOL = Laughing Out Loud.

[jaybelnz]

Thank you!  Just was curious about who Allan Sugar was!  One less name to worry about!

ROFL = Roll on floor laughing = Splitting my sides, and a couple of others that are not very         appropriate for this board!

Jeanne

[Trees]

Look before you leap= Keep your mouth shut unless you know the facts.

"Be like Dad keep Mum!"
and anotherleft over from THE war "Walls have ears." ...some things are best left unsaid who knows who 'll hear and tell.

Mind your Ps and Qs ...always thought it meant mind your manners ie please and thank yius but it really comes from early printing meant be sure you have a p not a q when making uo a line of printers type it is easy to mix those particular letters  lots from the printers trade still used today  another is upper case and lower case

[[Ray]]

"Mind your P's and Q's"

Recently found "Ps&Qs = Pints and Quarts" about pubs (but didn't think it significant to note where i found it)


Ray

[skyblueFF]

Stony ground here too Max What is K E Y N S H A M ?

O happy memories of listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bed clothe when I should have been asleep.

[Nettie]

Why do you need a modern counterpart to an old saying, Do they not basically mean the same, or is it just a play on words.

Some sayings (like don't count your chickens...) are ageless, however the one I mentioned at the outset isn't. many of the 'younger' people don't  know what a gramophone needle, so the saying will fade from use within another generation of so.  My initial point was what is there to replace these 'dying' sayings.

It's certainly been fun reading all the contributions, even if they did stray from the topic. It's been entertaining and educational, so thanks everyone.

[Mike in Cumbria]

  My initial point was what is there to replace these 'dying' sayings.

And it was interesting that so few of us could come up with direct replacements for the dying sayings.

Off-topic again, but I like some of the French or Spanish equivalents of our familiar sayings.

Never sell the bearskin till you have shot the bear
Speak of a wolf, and his tail is seen
Speak of the Pope of Rome and he walks through the door

My favourite Spanish one, a version of "it never rains but it pours" is "Éramos muchos y parió la abuela"
Loosely translated -"There were lots of us already, and then granny gave birth"

[suek2075]

I still say he/she is "sixpence short of a bob" (or "tuppence short of a shilling") which few people seem to understand anymore but can't think of a modern equivalent unless it's "got a few slates missing" or 'a sandwich short of a picnic".

"As queer as a threepenny - or thrupenny - bit" was the equivalent of "weird"

Someone as "daft as a brush" would have been a "right nerd" a few years back, no idea what they would be now!