Topic: Old fashioned sayings (Read 69368 times)

manypaws · « **Reply #30 on:** 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

CLKD · « **Reply #31 on:** May 23, 2009, 06:39:56 PM »

Someone told me to 'stop swanking' yesterday

manypaws · « **Reply #32 on:** 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

bramble · « **Reply #33 on:** May 24, 2009, 07:01:01 PM »

'fair put out' meaning annoyed or upset.

Bramble

CLKD · « **Reply #34 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:38:01 PM »

when asked how old people are it's often said "I'm as old as my tongue but younger than my teefff "

Pussycat · « **Reply #35 on:** 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" ....

CLKD · « **Reply #36 on:** 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

Taz2 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 27, 2009, 07:10:45 AM »

My mum used to say "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking"

tiilycat · « **Reply #38 on:** 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

Taz2 · « **Reply #39 on:** 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

CLKD · « **Reply #40 on:** 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"

tiilycat · « **Reply #41 on:** 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

CLKD · « **Reply #42 on:** May 27, 2009, 06:55:18 PM »

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 ..........

tiilycat · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2009, 09:10:08 AM »

OOPS..... Sorry CLKD, and apologies Taz for not looking properly at who posted.

Tilly. x

Taz2 · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2009, 09:15:12 AM »

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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