Old Sayings

[backcreek]

See you when the mud dries.

 

[Davent]

When describing someone who can really fight "he has fists like frozen chooks"

When its hot Im "sweating like a boogie boarder going through customs in bali", there are others to describe here, but they will just get deleted.

" Im so hungry, I could eat the front wheel off a menstural cycle"

 

[silver]

Or the fork out of a rag doll !

 

[The Green Wanderer]

Flat out like a lizard drinking
You cant polish shyte but you can roll it in glitter.
Takes a shark to know a shark.
Rodgering.
Like a fox in the henhouse.
A penny for your thoughts.
As tough as old boots.
As honest as the day is long.
Its not what you know its who you know.
If you cant say anything nice, dont say anything at all.

And one my grandfather once used on me:

Youve an old head on young shoulders but be sure of what you say before you speak otherwise people will think your a liar or a fool. And remember that even the wisest man is still learning.

 

[Balmain Bob]

When I was a boy....................................

 

[SCROUNGER]

In for a penny, in for a pound.

 

[NeilM]

My grandfather would say this every time he took granma out shopping

Go an put on your makeup and your paint
an make yourself what u aint

as the crow flies

hit him so many times he thought he was surrounded

 

[Davent]

Wouldnt be dead for quids....

 

[NeilM]

In n out like a fiddlers elbow

 

[SCROUNGER]

Up and down like a brides nightie

Mad as a cut snake

 

[Solid Luck]

I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment (Henry Lawson - poet)

 

[Davent]

Plan ya work, then work ya plan!

 

[bazxa]

Dumb as dog chit and twice as smelly.

 

[NeilM]

gonna live forever or die trying

 

[RM Outback]

Came in when light beer did, heavy drinkers motto. "Their all light when their empty" geez made a few post's that mention grog today.

 

[Cuckoowaif]

Here is one I heard in a butchers shop in the late seventies , and never heard again , and never understood .... " How's yer belly where the pig bit ya ? "
Can anyone explain this one ?

 

[Cuckoowaif]

My Nan used to say if I were talk through a door before her .... " Dust before the broom .... " I couldn't work out if it was an insult or not !

 

[SCROUNGER]

That's like '***** before the shovel' Cuckoo but not as ladylike as your nans one

 

[The Green Wanderer]

Im not sure if im right or not but ill have a crack,

think the first is a reference to someone having a bout of gastro,

and the second is a really old reference to being chivalrous ie holding the door for women or letting them enter a room first.

TGW.

 

[ken2m]

Sorry wrong place.