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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #165 on: February 07, 2025, 03:21:28 PM »

That's 1 of Billy Connolly's queries  ::)
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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #166 on: February 07, 2025, 04:15:09 PM »

Yep and I'll take my hand off of your face  ;D ;D
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SundayGirl

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #167 on: February 07, 2025, 06:04:54 PM »

On of my Mum's favourites was

Don't come running to me if you break your legs.
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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #168 on: February 07, 2025, 08:18:03 PM »

 ;D
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kathie22

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #169 on: February 26, 2025, 05:47:35 PM »

Stop waving that about you’ll have someone’s eye out .. didn’t matter if it was a stick or a piece of toast
If you don’t stop that you’ll get a smack .. would you like that? … No thanks
Nose like a soap boilers bum .. if you had a heavy cold
One on the pot and one up the chimney… very non PC description of someone with a cast in their eye
Couple of these are very London
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #170 on: February 26, 2025, 06:37:07 PM »

 :rofl: tnx for sharing.
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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #171 on: February 26, 2025, 07:08:38 PM »

Haha my mum used to say the chimney one 🤪😂
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SundayGirl

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #172 on: February 26, 2025, 09:46:34 PM »

If the wind changes it'll stick like that -- used if I was ever sulking  ;D

Well I'll go to t'foot of our stairs. Mum always said this when something surprised her.
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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #173 on: February 27, 2025, 02:36:23 PM »

Watching QI the other night and apparently the phrase "the bees knees" was originally said as "The business " by Italian Americans
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SundayGirl

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #174 on: February 27, 2025, 03:11:16 PM »

The Bees Knees was one of the stops on a Friday or Saturday pub crawl  ;D
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #175 on: February 27, 2025, 03:32:43 PM »

Ha,brilliant!
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