Topic: Old fashioned sayings
Old fashioned sayings
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:11PM
filly
As I finished a posting in the BCC Diary thread with an old fashioned saying, I wondered just how many we golden oldies can rake up from our past.
I finished the posting with
"early to bed, early to rise makes a girl healthy, wealthy and wise"
Another one from my girlhood was........
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me........
Well over to you ladies what can you remember,
filly xxxxx
My Granny used to say
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:49PM
Callsher
Pride comes before a fall.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
The best thing to spend on children is time.
The man that made time made plenty of it.
Never let the sun set on your wrath.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I could go on! Just wish I had written all her really 'Scottish' sayings down.
Anne
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Hi Filly
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:51PM
mh069
My 2 elder boys reminded me of something yesterday -
Pinch punch first of the month, and no returns of any kind!
As you can imagine it went on and on and on etc
hope you are well.
Mel
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hi filly
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:03PM
DelK
I used to get told eat your crusts and your hair will curl
Its obvious i never took any notice, cos mine is straight and straggy
take care
Del
One that I find very true
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:24PM
JC
Be careful what you wish for, it might well come true.
Joy xxx
An Apple
posted Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:25PM
JenS
a day keeps the doctor away..........
And my Mum used to make us eat the pips which I am led to believe have a special vitamin in them which stops cancer. Um.
apple pips
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:17AM
geraldine
My Dad used to say if we swallowed the pips, apple trees would grow out of our ears, not suprising i dont like apples is it, he also said bread crusts would give us white teeth and curly hair (or was it white hair and curly teeth,not sure now it was a VERY long time ago)
sorry filly not really sayings, but this thread triggered some very happy memories for me
gxx
just remembered
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:20AM
geraldine
a stitch in time saves nine
dont put off untill tomorrow what can be done today
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
and another of my dads favorites,
if the wind changes you will stay like that!(when pulling faces)
gxx
also
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:01AM
filly
a rolling stone gathers no moss. I didn't understand what that meant for years.
filly xxx
we used to say...
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:16AM
belinda
when falling out with friends in the playground that someone could ''stick it in their pipe and smoke it!'' Have no idea where the saying comes from.
Also used to say ''Pardon Mrs Arden'' after burping.
Reading Geraldine's post has reminded me that my daughter refused to eat bread with poppy seeds until I finally managed to convince her that she wouldn't grow poppys in her tummy.
xx
My mum was Irish
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:39AM
kelley
She was full of sayings
I'm not as green as i'm cabbage looking - (not as thick as i look)
Your eyes are bigger than your belly - (when you want to eat everything you see but can't manage it)
She often showed that unusual Irish logic by saying things that made sense to her such as "There's not as much lettuce on your plate as there looks"
I apparently do the same at times and i tell my kids when they pick me up on it that "it's the Irish in me".
I hope i'm not being politically incorrect!
Kelley
Who you calling old-fashioned?
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 01:42PM
V'sViews
I still use the 'not so green as I am cabbage looking' it confuses my husband no end (I'm not sure the wicked witch of the north, aka my mother-in-law, used to talk to him much!)
My dad has lots of sayings, though I'm half think he made most of them up himself, my particular favourites are
"same meat, different gravy" to describe something that essentially the same, especially when someone is trying to convince us that it is different
and
"the band played believe it if you like" usually muttered under our breath when someone is telling what is obviously a tall tale.
Two I heard on Neighbours of all places
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:43PM
V'sViews
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth!"
and
when a charactor was asked if he was feeling any better, "Well, I won't be buying any green bananas"
'The Book'
posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:55PM
Crazydaisy
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posted Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:59PM
Crazydaisy
Don't know what happened there......
My Mum being Scottish, used to say " What's for ye won't go by ye"
It's all written down in a book the day you are born what's in front of you and you can't change it. How I wanted to read that book.
Best Wishes, Marie X
One I heard recently
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:17AM
JenS
an older lady talking about her husband
He's as much use as a chocolate teapot
Made me giggle.....!
JenS xx
A long time ago.
posted Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:54PM
pollyanna
My mum often reminds me of the time I was very young and feeling a bit under the weather. She tucked me into bed with the words, "You won't know yourself in the morning".
Shocked, I sat up in the bed,
saying in all seriousness, "But I will, I will, I will".
Pollyanna
another one
posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:14AM
filly
There's no flies on me, only the marks were they have been.
filly xxxxxxx
my grandma's sayings
posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:37PM
alisonmargaret
if it was raining but there was a bit of blue sky she always said it would stop raining if there was enough blue sky to make a dutchman a pair of trousers!
you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. This was to encourage you to eat vegetables with a bit of earth left on them or something that had been dropped on the floor. As a child i always thought that it meant not dying would be so awful that it was essential to eat enough dirt to ensure you did die one day.
if she was asked how old she was she always said as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. love alison xx
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posted Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:10PM
Vivs
Among them be it - in other words let them get on with it, keep out of it.
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posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:35PM
filly
I know this is not an old fashioned saying but just had to share it with you al.
Went to see an Austrian friend today and she was explaining a long and convoluted story about some trouble a friend had had dealing with someone who is of dubious character. She informed us she had told him "not to put his fingers on this man" I eventually worked out that she meant don't touch him or as my mum would have said "don't touch him with a barge pole"
filly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
the proof is all around us
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:07PM
Molennium
there's nowt as queer as folk
Mole
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:27PM
filly
a Yorkshire friend of mine used to say " There's nowt so queer as folk, even thee and me, and even thee's a little queerer than me"
filly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hows about
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:44PM
domino
"Why have a dog and bark yourself"
"They will always flog a willing horse"
"You can stoop and pick up nothing"
"a moment on the lips - a lifetime on the hips" !!!!
My Nan
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:45PM
Cas7664
used to have a great many old sayings like,
"It's up in Annie's room behind the clock (when something can't be found, mind you, I haven't a clue who Annie was).
When asked what's for tea she would say 'Chair knobs & pump handles" or "Air pie & wind pudding, if it goes round far enough we'll all get a bit."
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no room for tinkers.
I wouldn't touch him/her/it with a barge pole.
She's all fur coat & no knickers.
Red hat no drawers.
And reading belinda's post reminded me "Pardon Mrs Arden" was, I think, from an old music hall song. The next bit was "there's a black cat in your garden" sorry can't remember the rest.
Carol xx
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posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:50PM
adih44
My mum used to say:
If you don't eat your carrots you won't be able to see in the dark.
Eat all your dinner, it'll put hairs on your chest, I've no idea why she thought I wanted a hairy chest.
Adi x
More from Gran
posted Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:05PM
Cas7664
If you burn bread you'll live to want
Look after the pennies the pounds will look after themselves.
You must eat everything on your plate because there are children starving in Africa.
Carol xx
At a christmas fair I went to on Saturday
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:23PM
V'sViews
there were young children racing round screaming and getting over excited and I found myself muttering to my husband
"there'll be tears before bedtime"
and realising I sounded just like my mum
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posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:47PM
AnnieD
""It's up in Annie's room behind the clock (when something can't be found, mind you, I haven't a clue who Annie was)."
So THAT's why I can't get into my room ! ;))
Anne (AnnieD)
A couple more...
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:55PM
jopurple
"It will all come out in the wash", and
"It's six and two threes" (i.e. it's the same either way)
Jo xx
and another
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:05PM
filly
One of my mum's favourites and always directed at me was
God's not ready for you and the Devil doesn't want you!!!!!
Charming!!!!!
filly xxxx
In that case Anne
posted Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:21PM
Cas7664
can I have back my sock I lost in 1989, my earring I lost in 1992...bla bla bla.
Here's another one from Gran (A bit morbid but she had a never ending stream of 'em)
God grant you'll be safely in heaven half an hour before the devil knows your dead.
Carol xx
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posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:16AM
filly
as thick as a plank and twice as wooden!!
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posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:21AM
stephk
If you dont slow down you'll meet yourself coming back
He who laughs last laughs longest (love the visual picture of this)
Never a truer word said in jest
It's all a nine day wonder
and another
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:20PM
Cas7664
You can take a horse to water but, you can't make it drink.
Carol xx
Local one ....
posted Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:48PM
JC
As thick as a Green Bank butty.
Joy x
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posted Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:09AM
filly
I don't boil my cabages twice
A cockney one
posted Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:26PM
aureykara
Take your feet off the floor
when this was said to me recently it took me by surprise, never heard it before
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
daft as a brush
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posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:47AM
Cas7664
You've got more front than Woolworth's (when someone is accused of having a lot of cheek) lots of changes to this one over the years.
Carol xx
Belinda & Carol
posted Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:42AM
Barbiemac
We had a different version to the 'Pardon Mrs Arden' it followed with 'your dog's left his card in my garden' ie pooped!!!
My mum used to threaten us if we were naughty with 'I'll take my hand off your face' - the threat was she had to put it there first!!
Growing up in the 50s we were well used to the odd wallop!
B x
Barbiemac
posted Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:25AM
Cas7664
Funny how different places have different variation of old sayings isn't it?
My mum's favourite threat was 'stop your crying or I give you something to cry for.'
Carol xx
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posted Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:42PM
mignonette
When I was 18 (a little while ago!) I shared a flat and our eldrley landlady - who'd been a nurse - used to say 'your head will never save your legs!' I still think of her every time I arrive upstairs or down without something I needed.
My Mum used to say I was 'always crying for the moon', or 'kicking against the pricks' (which caused a bit of hilarity among my friends)
Judy xx
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posted Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:10PM
imp
"Red sky at night sailors delight
red sky in morning sailors warning"
"Don't take mountain to Mohammed, take Mohammed to the mountain"
for when you are doing something back to fromt
"you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink"
and old gaelic one from when I often got told off for my tomboy behaviour (excuse the spelling)
"Suidh air a bhord 's cha phos thu chaoidh"
which is to make you behave like a lady- it means "if you sit on the tale you'll never marry"
no use crying over spilt milk (or spraying nipples in my case( sorry if that is in bad taste, I couldn't resist!))
thick as 2 short planks
I didn't come down the clyde in a banana boat!
don't ite your nails of fingers will grow in your tummy
eat your porridge it'll stick tp your ribs
gettting told to "change your tune" or " shut up you're like a broken record"
get your head out of the clounds and your feet back on the ground
"she's as thin as the gable end of a pound note"
a sandwich short of a picknic
the list goes on and on.............
I better stop now!
A few more
posted Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:35AM
Cas7664
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Up the creek without a paddle.
Bent as a nine bob note (in the criminal sense).
Get your two penn'orth in (voice your opinion).
He's/she's sharp, must have slept in the knife box last night.
Slow down or you'll meet yourself coming back.
All the world loves a lover.
Lucky at card unlucky in love.
Cold hands warm heart.
When they're babies they only make your arms ache, when they grow up they can make your heart ache (your children).
Carol xx