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Blue sky

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Not sure if this is a Brummie saying. My dad used to say "there's enough blue in the sky to make a sailors trousers". If he was really dismissive of someone he would say "he's like a man made of smoke".
 
No, can't say I remember my dad saying that. He said something like "If you do ought for snought do it for this end". Does that make sense to anybody?
 
Kate,
Not saying I am right but my interpretation is that he was saying if someone was prepared to do something (owt) for no payment (nowt) then they should do it his 'end' (end of the street) or in other words for him.

Will.
 
Nearly right David. The end of the saying is thi'sen, meaning yourself. It was a saying in our family, they came back from Yorkshire in 1913 with it, and seemed to delight in saying it. :)
 
I remember my dear old Nan saying asking if "there was enough blue in the sky to make a sailors suit for a cat."

Funnily enough at the age of 5 or 6 I wasn't quite sure if there was.  ???
 
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