Phrases and sayings-do we know what they mean?

[tonicj]

There are so many phrases and sayings, but do we actually know what they mean?


Not the sharpest tool in the shed means
Someone who isn't witty or sharp.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth means
Be grateful when you receive a gift

No If's, Ands, or Buts means
Getting on with something and finishing it without excuses.

What sayings and phrases are from your part of the world?

 

[virtues2011]

Common sense isn't that common.

No need to spell it out is there?

Worth your salt - (comes from the last few centuries where the amount of salt determined your wealth - generally found on peoples window sills for all to see that were passing.)

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Better the devil you know


hundreds of them..............

 

[louisenewell]

Gordon Benett

Only one i can think of just now,lol

 

[Sam81]

My Mum always said 'you're big, fat and ugly enough to decide for yourself'! Meaning I could do what I want but I'd have to deal with the consequences. I said this to my 9 year old daughter the other day, she was most offended lol!

Hard cheese - tough luck

Putting in your tuppence worth - giving your opinion

I'll probably think of a few more yet!

 

[happyfeet]

Gordon Benett

Only one i can think of just now,lol

Haha I still say this!

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[virtues2011]

Haha I still say this!

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Talking of names. .. ' you Dillon' was another one meaning not very bright.

I have some more on the top of my tounge...ohhhhhh

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[Absolutebeautyx]

Gordon Benett

Only one i can think of just now,lol

What does that mean? I work with a girl called Wendy Bennett & she was speaking to a foreign lady on the phone & when she was trying to spell her second name she said Bennett as in Gordon Bennett we were all decking ourselves laughing lol. We tried to get her to call her second son Gordon haha!

I can't even think of anything!!

Sarah xx

 

[Lynne Baker]

Ooo, I have loads!

As dim as a Toc H lamp - not very bright
Coming down like stair rods - raining very hard
Neither use nor ornament - worthless
I've come over all unnecessary - feeling weak
I'll go to the foot of our stairs! - to express incredulity
Not backwards in coming forwards - very straight talking
Frame yourself - put your back into it!

Can you tell I'm from Yorkshire?!

 

[ch-ela]

"He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself"

 

[Balance Andover]

My OH is in The Army and he comes home with corkers.

One is 'can't even find the cheeks of their arse with their own hands' someone stupid or dim.

'They can tell you the volume of jam in a jam jar, but doesn't have the brains to open the damn thing' someone who is brainy with no practical skills.

He says 'I'm doing some admin' Admin could mean washing, cooking, ironing - but never paperwork

 

[CONNECT-2-HAIR]

Ive got brain fog today:

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Thats all I can think of at the moment, snowed under with work.

 

[happyfeet]

What does that mean? I work with a girl called Wendy Bennett & she was speaking to a foreign lady on the phone & when she was trying to spell her second name she said Bennett as in Gordon Bennett we were all decking ourselves laughing lol. We tried to get her to call her second son Gordon haha!

I can't even think of anything!!

Sarah xx

Gordon Bennett is like an exclamation or sigh. Like you're incredulous at something someone's done.

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[Lilypie]

The only ones I can think of right now. ...

'Ow bist o butt?' : 'how are you?
' that's the badger' : 'yep, that's the one'

 

[MrsSlim]

'Weather you think you can or you can't, your right!' - Henry Ford

'Everything seems impossible until it's done' - Nelson Mandela

More quotes than 'sayings' but I love by both of these quotes!

 

[BonBon]

Ooo, I have loads!

As dim as a Toc H lamp - not very bright
Coming down like stair rods - raining very hard
Neither use nor ornament - worthless
I've come over all unnecessary - feeling weak
I'll go to the foot of our stairs! - to express incredulity
Not backwards in coming forwards - very straight talking
Frame yourself - put your back into it!

Can you tell I'm from Yorkshire?!

A soon as I started reading these I thought by eck she must be a Yorkshire lass like myself. (me'sen)

One to add 'its looking dark o'er be Bills mothers' - its going to rain soon!
Never knew who Bill or his mother was...!

 

[MissyMuffin]

We say 'that knocked my duck off' when something unexpected happens or upsets the apple cart.
What the hell it means I don't know!!

 

[Rinn]

I softened their cough....

Means if someone was a bit sharp with you , you were twice as sharp back:lol:

 

[Lynne Baker]

Never do owt for nowt, and if tha does, do it for tha'sen.

One for BonBon!

 

[CONNECT-2-HAIR]

A soon as I started reading these I thought by eck she must be a Yorkshire lass like myself. (me'sen)

One to add 'its looking dark o'er be Bills mothers' - its going to rain soon!
Never knew who Bill or his mother was...!

Oh thats sooo funny, brightened my evening, thanks

 

[Kim Lawless]

Never do owt for nowt, and if tha does, do it for tha'sen.

One for BonBon!

Are you trying to tell me that you're not posh!!!! I'm crushed.