OLD SAYINGS.

Have You Any Old sayings your Parents or Grandparents would say when you were young.. Here are three as starters.-------

(1) If You Screw Or Play With Your Belly Button Your Bum Will Drop Off..

(2) When You Go To The Dentist,The Injection Makes Your Tooth Slack,Making It Easier To Come Out. ( Aye Right ):patpat:.

(3) When The Ice Cream Vans Play Their Chimes At Night,The Ice Cream Men Were Telling You, It Was Bed Time...

 

A bloke I was mixing up for once said I was using the shovel like "A cow with a musket"

Recon that was a very old Dorset saying

 

My Dad used to say "You eat like a workhouseman"! He never did explain what he meant.

Cheers, Tony.

 

Like you are starving

My mother was always saying things in riddles.

~ Man can't put in what God left out
~ A blind man on a galloping donkey would see that!
~ "I want"s don't get and "can I have" is greedy.
~ Red sky at night, sheperds delight; red sky in morning, sheperds warning
~ Nowt as queer as folk
~ thinks he's King of the Middin (sp?)
~ a man can always put his hat on
~ I see no ships; only hardships

You've started me off now

 

A few of my dad's occasional gems of wisdom.

Of someone who he thought was exaggerating or simply making stuff up: "Yeah right, I've heard ducks fart in church before."

To describe something which had a particularly sour or sharp taste: "That'll make yer draw yer a**e to yer elbows."

On the subject of young lads 'courting' and the lengths they will go to in pursuit of a young lady: "Ah, that'll draw yer further than gunpowder'll blow yer."

 

Some nuggets of wisdom my dad gave me just before I became a dad myself:

Reward good behaviour at least as much as you punish bad. You can't learn right from wrong without both.

Don't be too strict, and remember that you were a kid yourself once.

Its easier to beat the devil into a child than it is to beat the devil out.

 

Some words of wisdom

Its black over bills mothers
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man wealthy and wise.
Look have fast he's going he not get there any quicker

 

re: flatulence
Where 'ere you be - let the wind blow free
In church or chapel - let it rattle
( my grandad said it )

 

I'm trying to picture this one Zigs!

 

My parents started out life living in London, so there were a few gems that have been passed down.

If we came in dirty as children.......You're as black as Newgates Knocker.
Or.......A little bit of dirt won't hurt!

If the wind changes, you'll stay like that.
Night, night, don't let the bed bugs bite.
If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about!
As happy as a pig in...........

 

@ mowgley, it was "Dark over Will's mother's" around here.

@ Sheal, wasn't Newgate's Knocker something to do with execution?

 

My father never used bad language in front of us or Mum so he would say

He couldn't organize a bun fight in a tea shop

A local farmer wasn't quite so polite and he used to say

One boy is worth half a man
Two boys are worth half a boy
And three boys are no bl**dy good at all

 

Same here Shiney...i love them
Falling through my knicker leg....(hungry)
Face like a slapped..A*/bottom....
Not as green as i'm cabbage looking....