Saying a saying

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm

From Robert Burns

Meaning bearing a grudge which I was famous for

We use to say well I ll go to the foot of our stairs. *Wellbeck
My grandads was * well its better than a slap across the belly with a wet fish* if something was not what you actually wanted
Going to see * a man about a dog* when he went for a drink
When a storm was coming Nan would say it’s Looking dark over Wills wife’s mothers

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My Grandma used to say,
"Oh well, a blind man would be glad to see it,"
if she'd made something and it hadn't turned out quite right.

"A stitch in time saves nine".
Also, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". "What did your last slave die of?". "One less to go". "Its being so cheerful that keeps you going (ironic)". Hmm, lots of stuff about hard times and dying. Thanks Yorkshire Mum!

sodapop No funny things could hit the button when humourless people read or hear them.Crikey, lighten up.

We obviously have different ideas of humour. You stick with yours and I'll look elsewhere.

One of our junior school teachers would say ‘An empty drum makes the most noise’ my Grandma would say ‘tell the truth and shame the devil’ another one I’ve heard a lot around here is ‘I’m just going to turn me bike round’ when a bloke is going of to the toilet.

My favourite saying is `he/she is about as much use as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest.
And,when ever i`m right,no-one remembers,when ever i`m wrong,no-one forgets.

That last one resonates with me timetogo2016 my daughters always mention the the things I got wrong never the good things

Let's 'ave a look at these 'ere 'errings heads. (These here herrings' heads).

If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly <––– think about it. Nobody would try anything new if it weren't true.

Currently I'm doing watercolour painting badly but it aint half fun 😁

Mum used to use 'better as a door than a window! when we got in her way especially if she was watching TV. Were you born in a barn? ( don't leave the door open its draughty!) I always thought going to 'see a man about a dog meant they were off to the loo!

'I'll go to the foot of our stairs' used to be said where I come from. To me it meant that someone was surprised or shocked by something

My mum used to say :

'She has a face like a frozen mop' - meaning grumpy looking I think. Similar to, 'She looks like she's sucking a lemon'

'I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking' - self explanatory

'Don't buy any green bananas' - said in jest to someone who was unwell - but not seriously

'Don't stand there like one of Burtons' or 'Don't stand there like Emma Lemon' - Burtons refers to Burtons clothes shop dummies. Not sure who Emma Lemon is.

If I was thirsty as a child, 'Have a drink or corporation pop', i.e. water

“Sitting there like cheese at four pence.”

Said by the headteacher at my primary school when we weren’t paying attention.

Yes my nan used to say I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

Also "Nowt as queer as folk"

My mum used to say he's sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun when someone was hanging about.

Red hat, no knickers

After the Lord Mayor’s Show comes the shit cart

The blind leading the blind

All teeth and temptation

pandapatch

If you asked my nan what's for dinner? she would always reply, "3 jumps up cupboard door and a bite off the knob" never jeard it before or since!

I used that one when my children were small, heard it when I first started work 😳

“A jump at the door and a lick of the knob”

“Got more lip than Tommy Liptons got tea bags”

“Takes a man not a shirt button”

BlueBelle

We use to say well I ll go to the foot of our stairs. *Wellbeck
My grandads was * well its better than a slap across the belly with a wet fish* if something was not what you actually wanted
Going to see * a man about a dog* when he went for a drink
When a storm was coming Nan would say *it’s Looking dark over Wills wife’s mothers*

Or a poke in the eye with a sharp stick 😂

My gran would say of a blunt knife "you could ride bare arsed to London on that"

My grandmother would say ‘he couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel’ if someone was bandy legged.
‘They don’t spoil two houses’ if both people in a couple were annoying.
‘Enough face for two sets of teeth’ meant someone brazen, and (I told him to) ‘go and run up a shutter’ ie get lost (or something ruder).

A lot of the sayings “expressions” here are just banter really the list is endless.
If you had brains you would be dangerous
The lights are on but there’s know one at home
What a load of verbal diarrhoea (usually said when someone disagrees with something they have just heard)

Is there a difference between a 'saying', an 'expression', an idiom' etc?

Call it what you like, these threads are always fun - the old phrases are so much more expressive than many of the media-created ones, and tell us something about life in the past.

Another one I like is 'don't stand there like a stookie' (a haystack) as said to someone not helping out.

Fleurpepper I may get that dead fish one for my new fridge😁
And Bridgeit I will rectify this mysogany forthwith and from now on will say “he”
Still no idea what it actually meant but I like it🙃

She (could be he though) looks like she’s been chewing on broken glass and sucking on 🍋