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Thanks for that. Just looked at the expressions and I recognise a lot of them. My parents used a fair few of them and my mother was always telling me "I mithered her to death." Bless her.
 
My mom used to say "Pull your socks up ya chins bleeding" were did that come from I ask you?
 
life goes on
for every person that dies daily
a person is born every minute of the day
that replaces the lost person .that as died .
 
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One must draw back in order to leap better

Never tell your enemy your foot aches

One of these days is none of these days

One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands
 
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"Every mickle macks a muckle", An old saying of my grandmothers. She would say this whenever she salvaged something for re-use. Mind you she was from Dundee.

Cheers,

pmc1947 (Phil)
 
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My Mum, " do'nt come running to me if you break a leg." when i ignored her warning about climbing over our garden fence.
 
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keep out the horse rd also do you want some cuck cucks meaning sweets my mom used to say
 
I always smile when I think of my Mom sitting in the chair when she had jobs to do, she would say 'this won't buy the baby a new bonnet'.
 
This wo get the babbie washed:D

When you're wasting time and need to get a move on
 
angeleyes said:
keep out the horse rd also do you want some cuck cucks meaning sweets my mom used to say
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We used to pronounce it Cuckoos 'as in jawont a cuckoo?' although it may have been a different derivation
 
Moma P, like you l can see my mother apron on, sitting in the chair with a cuppa saying" this wont get any po's emptied" l even say that myself some times, but all l get is strange looks from children and g/children, they don't even know what a po is...... BRENDA
 
Oh Brilliant Brenda, thats what its all about I would love the explanation from Mom or Gran!
 
What about when you played up
My mom would say ''wait till your father gets home''
 
Father takes the upper hand???

Don't believe it! My mother used to say that to me, but I knew it's true value, (nil) 'cause my father was twisted around my little finger!
Anne
 
I remember my Dad had a few sayings like "up the wooden bridge" to go up stairs to bed, "brumegan gloves" if you had your hands in your pockets.
If he was cross with me he'd say I was "enough to make a parson spit blackin"
A sausage & tomato batch (is that just Coventry for a bread roll?) was "bangers & red lead"!
He used to call Brum the "holy city" because of all the man-hole covers &
Hinkley was always "tin hat", not sure why.
Having been in Oz for so long I've almost forgotten the things we used to say, when I do sometimes come out with an old saying my kids think it's hilarious. :rolleyes:
Barb
 
Old Sayings

She / He has got a face as long as Livery Street

cheers

pmc1947
 
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