OLD SAYINGS??

I was just thinking about some old saying's I remember from Yesteryear, we must all know a few.???
(1) I'll Wipe That Smile Off Your Face Lad!!!!
(2) I'll Make You Smile On The Other Side Of Your Face Lad!!!
(3) I'll Take Ma Hand Off Your Jaw!!!
(4) A Nods As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse !!!
(5) Dont Try To Teach Your Granny To Suck Eggs!!!!
(6) A Careless Watch Invites A Thief!!!


Just A Couple To Start With :WINK1::WINK1::WINK1:

 

Manners cost nothing and mean everything.

 

Never cast a clout until the month of May is out!!

 

I was taught a slightly different version of this, "Ne'er cast a clout til May be out", which apparently is nothing to do with the month of May, but instead means "Keep your coat handy until the May flower is comes out", the May flower being an archaic term for the flowers of the Hawthorn tree. Its supposed to be that the Hawthorn tree knows when the bad weather is over, and refuses point blank to flower, no matter how spring like the weather gets, until it is sure that winter is genuinely over. As an aside, the Hawthorn flower was historically used in May day celebrations, until some king or other changed our calendar so that 1st of May happened 17 days earlier than it was supposed to, and so the chances of finding Hawthorn flowers for May day was drastically reduced. At that point many people (apparently) turned to the Blackthorn instead, which flowers about a month earlier, and so some branded the Blackthorn flower the May flower instead.

 

Here's a few gardening related ones:

A dripping June sets all in tune
A few germs never hurt anyone
A firm tree does not fear the storm
A little axe can cut down a big tree
A man who never sowed, never grew anything
Fine words butter no parsnips
Deeds are fruits; words are leaves

 

Quote Terrier " Fine words butter no parsnips"

Wish someone would tell my mrs that.


"Don't pass judgement on other people or you might get judged too."

"Who, me ?"

"Yes You."

"Oo, thank you very much!"

 

"Do as you would be done by." Or, the more aggressive. "I will do unto you what you do unto me."

 

'Thought' followed a muck cart and thought he was going to a wedding. (One from my mum)

Where there's muck there's brass. (Grandfather)

There's nae pockets in a shroud. (Which is why we are keen on SKI'ing - Spending the Kids' Inheritance:D)

 

Oldest saying, usually on a paster in most clubhouses:

ANYTHING YOU HEAR, SEE OR DO HERE, STAYS HERE, WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE.

Chopper

 

`He who angers you conquers you `
`every dog has is day`

 

Somerset for i'm full up = Stand I up or lay I down, but don't bend I.

Dorset for thats the way it is = Tis what it tis, and cassn't be what it tissent.

 

Sticks & stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
He who laughs last laughs the longest.
I might be cabbage looking but I'm not green.

Val

 

"Its the fish that John West reject, that make John West fish the best."

"Wind in the East, fish the least" I've never been able to work this one out, it refers to fish not biting when the east wind is blowing. Now there is no way a fish in the English Channel can tell which way the wind is blowing, but somehow, the saying is right. You do catch fewer fish in an easterly wind

When I was a young labourer, I was mixing up by hand for a plasterer. He watched me for a minute & then shouted "Get your knee behind the shovel, you're like a cow with a musket"

Now that must be a very old saying.