its raining cats and dogs View attachment 141337
I bought "Brewer's Phrase and Fable" for about a pound from the "Works" in Birmingham, around 1990.
Here is what he says about raining cats and dogs...
View attachment 141375
[/QUOTE....well done pedro thanks.for that info.
My late first wife was from Denbigh and she always said "sailor's warning".That's the landlubbers saying, here the word 'shepherd' is replaced by ''sailor's'.
`up the wooden hill` our Dad sent us to bed each night with these words.
And if our Mom wasnt in the house, and we asked where she was he would answer, `shes gone off with the bogey man` Jackie
sling your hook
Hatton down the batchesSaying of the day?
“Batten down the hatches.”
If you sup with the devil you need a long spoonThere must be many sayings related to the Devil.
My maternal grandmother came from Dublin and one of her sayings was...
"the Devil loves Holy Water.”
I do like the French saying for someone who is stuck up, "he f@rts higher than his @rse"A local saying here if it's dark and overcast but there is a break in the cloud is "Enough blue to patch a sailor's collar."
A rather rude one my dad used if someone was in a bad mood was "He's got his arse in his hand."