Sayings from the past

[glasgowcyclist]

" A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp" or a "face like a smacked bottom" are nice.

Our local equivalents are:

Face like a bulldog licking pish aff a thistle.

Face like a well-skelped arse.

GC

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Our local equivalents are:

Face like a bulldog licking pish aff a thistle.

Face like a well-skelped arse.

GC

A face like thunder

If looks could kill....

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A face like thunder

If looks could kill....

Another of my mum's was :

"If yer face wis yer fortune, ye'd owe yer arse a fiver."


GC

 

[mrandmrspoves]

f*** off out of my way you vile stinking peasant scumbag.

Edit: scrap that, just remembered that was me shouting this morning.

Are you a Tory MP?

 

[Archie_tect]

One of Gran's: "She's got a face for radio".

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Were you born in the park?

Yet another response when someone leaves a door open.

 

[Night Train]

Not an old family saying...

A gay chap I knew many years ago described a manager thus:
"If she sucked a lemon the lemon would go sssstttt!"

 

[mrandmrspoves]

My Grandfather used to announce he was going to the toilet by saying "to the batpoles Robin" mind you, he did have dementia.

My Grandmother used to bemoan the loss of the word Gay.....in her day it meant happy.

My mother always useful to respond to our protests about something that was not fair with "then it's dark?!)

In Norfolk I have heard the expression " I'm just goin to turn my bike round" when someone goes to the toilet.

 

[Speicher]

Well, go the the foot of our stairs!

I am not as green as I am cabbage looking.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not an old family saying...

A gay chap I knew many years ago described a manager thus:
"If she sucked a lemon the lemon would go sssstttt!"

'They say a snake once bit her and died'.

 

[jefmcg]

My Grandmother used to bemoan the loss of the word Gay.....in her day it meant happy.

My mother was the same, but the "new" meaning is quite old:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_A8U6aUPW48#t=84s (84 seconds in)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My miserable gran (from t' north), by way of complimenting food, the best she could muster was "I've tasted worse"

 

[Archie_tect]

No Rockaay, he meant he was going to advise your mum on an alternative course of action through the medium of interpretive dance.

 

[pawl]

Saying when its cold.There more runny noses about than straw hats.

 

[PaulB]

One from the 80s when you encountered someone objectionable; 'What do you do for a face when Jabba the Hut wants its arse back?'