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To ask for your favourite sayings/phrases?

145 replies

SailAwaySandra · 27/08/2024 20:19

Mine are

I’d rather be late in this life than early in the next

And

If you want something done properly, do it yourself (bloody annoying but always true)

OP posts:
jcyclops · 27/08/2024 22:32

A couple from the Tech Sector:
He has an ID-10T problem (ID ten T) = idiot
It's a PICNIC situation (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)

Easipeelerie · 27/08/2024 22:32

I’m in Ireland so I’ve learnt about “notions” today. We go a pot of veg with our dinner containing one mini sweetcorn. DP pointed at it and said, “notions”.

Drippycandle · 27/08/2024 22:30

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 27/08/2024 22:28

"Did somebody just put 50p in the idiot?"

"Ah wouldnae gie yer/him/her/it the reek aff ma pesh!"

Likewhatever · 27/08/2024 22:28

Mad as cheese
Thick as mince

Don’t know why because neither makes any sense

GinToBegin · 27/08/2024 22:25

As much use as a glass eye through a keyhole.
I’m not so green as I’m cabbage looking.
(in response to curiosity killed the cat) satisfaction brought it back.

214 · 27/08/2024 22:22

Your opinion is very important - just not to me

Peacelover1975 · 27/08/2024 22:22

'Don't let the door hit you on the way out!' (In other words, go away!!!)

Aquamarine1029 · 27/08/2024 22:21

Like hearding cats.

Getting John to finish this project is like hearding cats.

Itsallsostressful · 27/08/2024 22:20

BoredAuditor · 27/08/2024 20:53

Not my circus, not my monkeys

I love this and use it and remind myself of it quite a lot !!!

Another one I use since I heard it in something DH was watching is 'chop chop motherfuckers' !! So much catchier than hurry up !!!

HowardTJMoon · 27/08/2024 22:20

"It's ok. Nobody's died. It's not that big of a deal."

"Be kind to yourself."

"You've mistaken me for someone who gives a shit what you think."

AgileGreenSeal · 27/08/2024 22:19

“he’s standing there with his two arms the one length”
to describe a useless / lazy person who ought to be busy

“he’s neither use nor ornament”
to describe an unfortunate who hasn’t got much going for him

BigBoysDontCry · 27/08/2024 22:18

Shy bairns get nae sweeties.

5foot5 · 27/08/2024 22:17

It smells like a tent full of scouts.

Enko · 27/08/2024 22:17

A good compromise leaves nobody happy.

5128gap · 27/08/2024 22:13

I was running round like a tit in a trance. It became a lot less amusing when I realised it referred to the bird. Which was actually only recently.

RobinHumphries · 27/08/2024 22:12

Can’t organise a piss up in a brewery
a sandwich short of a picnic

Moier · 27/08/2024 22:12

He's/ she's got more faces than the Townhall clock.
( Someone being two faced).

AgileGreenSeal · 27/08/2024 22:12

ThePrologue · 27/08/2024 21:58

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove them correct
( I have not always adhered to this!)

Get ye tae fuck. But only if spoken by a Scottish person. It can be both an endearmentcandca threat - brilliant

“Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses”
as so eloquently spoken by Sir Humphrey Appleby …
“if you’d kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever”

Moier · 27/08/2024 22:08

I always say to my daughters.
" If it makes you unhappy don't do it".
Mine is.
"If in the afterlife there is no music.. then we will need to invent it"

5128gap · 27/08/2024 22:08

Oneearringlost · 27/08/2024 20:31

I think it's " Better to be 30 minutes late in this life than 30 years too early in the next"
Sometimes used in relation to driving too fast.

My mum used to say "it's better to be late Miss Mysurname than THE late Miss Mysurname" If I drove over 20 mph.

WillLiveLife · 27/08/2024 22:07

Smurf1993 · 27/08/2024 20:47

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

I love this!

Consequences of your actions - some really don’t get it.

Gall10 · 27/08/2024 22:06

He’s standing there like one o’clock half struck!

Heedthaball · 27/08/2024 22:05

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Fridaynight25 · 27/08/2024 22:04

Fishier than Rick Stein’s bin (for something dodgy; think I made that one up myself)
Up and down like a frog in a lift

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