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manypaws
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
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May 18, 2009, 09:05:01 AM »
Hi all
Mad as a box of frogs
Ha s somone changed you name to Jesus (if you left a door open )
My nannas favourite one was all fur coat and no knickers
Manypaws x
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CLKD
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May 23, 2009, 06:39:56 PM »
Someone told me to 'stop swanking' yesterday
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manypaws
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May 23, 2009, 07:42:07 PM »
Oh CKLD
I love that saying reminds me of living in my home town Kirkham in Lancashire
Manypaws
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bramble
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May 24, 2009, 07:01:01 PM »
'fair put out' meaning annoyed or upset.
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CLKD
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when asked how old people are it's often said "I'm as old as my tongue but younger than my teefff "
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Pussycat
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May 25, 2009, 07:55:17 PM »
I use "mad as a box of frogs" all the time to describe my m-in-law but what does it actually mean???
My gran (Suffolk) used to say "ill a bed and worse up" ....
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CLKD
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May 27, 2009, 07:07:57 AM »
I thought of 3 sayings last night, oh one was 'turn your money over' when a new moon appears ......
moon on it's back, fine day tomorrow
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Taz2
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May 27, 2009, 07:10:45 AM »
My mum used to say "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking"
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tiilycat
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May 27, 2009, 08:26:10 AM »
Up the dancers, ( up the stairs )
When i was a child my dad always said that to me when it was bedtime , i said it to my son, and now i say it to my grandaughter. Tilly. x
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Taz2
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May 27, 2009, 09:12:25 AM »
I was interested in the origins of this Tilly but searching has only come up with the fact that dancers is used for stairs. I wondered how old it was because it may have something to do with Fred Astaire?
Taz x
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CLKD
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May 27, 2009, 09:18:55 AM »
FinL used to say he was going 'Up to do his ironing' when he went to bed
Taz2 - that's a saying often said where we come from
Or "I didn't get off the Ark yesterday"
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tiilycat
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May 27, 2009, 03:35:56 PM »
CLKD.....
Ive just spoke to my dad and he said his parents used to say it to him, he"s 69, and when i asked him where the saying came from he said he thought it came from Fred Astaire, so it looks like your research was right
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CLKD
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Tilly - it was Taz who wondered about the Fred Astaire connection .......
..... "up the wooden hill" was another, when people were too poor to afford carpet on the stairs ..........
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tiilycat
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OOPS..... Sorry CLKD, and apologies Taz for not looking properly at who posted.
Tilly. x
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Taz2
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That's ok - am pleased that I got it right - I just thought that "stairs" linked to "dancers" must mean Fred Astaire.
Taz x
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