Odd sayings

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 2:10 pm

"He's got all his chairs at home""There's more than one way to skin a cat""You can't educate pork""You can't polish a turd""There, pick the bones out of that!" after giving someone a ear full!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 2:45 pm

another one that puzzles me is- "well il go t' foot of our stairs"?? Or a corker mi mam used to say when you found a hair or some other foreign body in your dinner was "dont tell em all they'l all want one!" lol

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 2:46 pm

"you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"

simong · Post by **simong** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 4:46 pm

Brandy wrote: another one that puzzles me is- "well il go t' foot of our stairs"?? Or a corker mi mam used to say when you found a hair or some other foreign body in your dinner was "dont tell em all they'l all want one!" lol I got all these from my Dad, and I think again, they're all radio or music hall (or possibly both) catchphrases from the 30s and 40s. "I'll go't'foot 'o'our stairs" might come from Rob Wilton, or possibly even Gracie Fields.Two that I grew with, again not being from around these parts were 'Well I go to Trent' as an exclamation of surprise, and 'It's black over Bill's mother's', which means it looks like rain.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 5:47 pm

"He's in and out like a lodging house tomcat"."You're like a fly round an 'orses [edited for content]"."He looks like a bookies runner".and a daft ditty we used to re cite in days long ago - "One fine day in the midlle of the night three tom cats went looking for a fight, one had a pistol, one had a gun and one had a pancake stuck to its bum".

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 5:50 pm

A fave my dad used to use"up and down like a barmaids knickers"

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 6:07 pm

"Up and down like a closet seat"" In and out like a fiddlers elbow""Like a lousy stocking" fidgety"Spread out like a shilling dinner" taking up too much room"Like a fortnight,two week" feeble"like a yard o pump watter"tall and skinny

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 6:29 pm

'I'll belt ya into t'middle o' next week'

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 8:07 pm

Hes as bent has a two bob watch. Someone you cant trust.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Thu 27 Nov, 2008 8:19 pm

"As much use as a bacon slicer in a synagogue"