Sayings from the past

[glasgowcyclist]

"If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be nae need for tinkers."​

The not so family-friendly version:

"... aye, and if yer auntie had baws she'd be yer uncle!"​

GC

 

[Leaway2]

Gran always said "well i'll go to foot of our stairs" when something unexpected happened.

 

[ArDee]

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

A friend once described his next door neighbour as "God gave her the worst face he could and then smacked it with a shovel".
A guy I worked with used to say " I'm so low, I can get under a snake with a top hat on"

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Said of a person who'd rather not share:

"He could peel an orange in his pocket." ​

If this person was particularly tight then the phrase would be supplemented after a pause with "... while wearing a boxing glove."


GC

 

[Archie_tect]

He's got short arms and long pockets.

 

[ArDee]

A slightly risqué quote;
When somebody was late a friend used to say “the Vicar’s late coming she said, stirring her tea with the other hand

 

[ArDee]

And I once heard a client describe a fellow engineer as “he is to engineering what anorexia nervosa is to sumo wrestling”

 

[Alan Frame]

Fat as a tonky pig, whatever one of those is.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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Everybody in Ireland says, getting the messages or going for the messages when going shopping.

NOOOOOOO!! Remind me never to go to Ireland!!

It gets on my tits and I don't really know why other than it is a silly thing to say unless you are getting a newspaper/magazine/the mail, etc etc.

 

[Archie_tect]

... on a par with a jam sandwich being a piece and why anything with chips added, at any time of day, becomes a supper.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

My M-i-L refers to "Pig's Crow's Beans" when toe nails get long. Also "Prayties" for potatoes.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That's just grand, and I knew a few of those too!!

 

[subaqua]

When asked what was for tea, my mother would reply variously:-
'A walk round the table.
'Bread and pull it.' (Poulet)
's*** with sugar on!'

The last one was always said when she had been asked about tea by every member of the family in turn.

i misheard the last one once and thought that my mum had said chips with sugar on. ( I was about 8)

 

[oldfatfool]

My eye and Peggy Martin - for something unbelievable

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My eye and Peggy Martin - for something unbelievable

My foot!!