Charming, old fashioned sayings

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My IL used to say they couldn't "get on with " something like a cooker or a book.That used to make me smile.
My mother used to say " Oh I like you in that" meaning that suits you, another one which made me smile.

I love the saying “your bladder is near your eye” which I read in Angela’s Ashes.

"Spitting feathers " when I was a kid meant needing a drink of water.

When events took a messy turn they were a 'buggers muddle' to my granny and mum

@LApprentiSorcier

I think 'clout' is an archaic word for 'cloth' so cast ne'er a clout means don't reduce the clothes you wear until the end of May.

My modern version is to leave my winter coat on the peg in case of need during May rather than putting it in the wardrobe. I do usually need it sometimes in May.

I think you're right. 'Clout' is also where we, down in west cornwall get the term 'clouty tree', pronounced clooty. This is a magical tree where you hang strips of cloth to make wishes.

My Scottish granny used to do a sharp intake of breath on the 'aye' (aspiration) and say "that's the way of it"

When asked her age, my gran always used to say ‘I’m as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth’

Maybe's don't fly in June (May Bees)

Just thought of a couple more of DH's little sayings:

When it was hot he would be "sweating like a Turkish wrestler's jockstrap"

And he used to answer the house phone "city morgue, slab 3" (3 being the house number)

My mam used to say ‘don’t spoil the ship for a haporth of tar’

@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows

I love "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din" and so rarely hear it said these days.

Yes! And: 'I'm not your Punkawallah' (sp?) Grandad served in Egypt / India so maybe it came from there? not very politically correct these days, anyway!

My mother used to tell me that I looked as though I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, but that may have been an Irish one :-)

Oh, and with pocket money, 'Don't spend it all in the one shop' :-)

I'll be buggered if I know (my grandad again!)
Pissing against the wind
Playing a game of silly buggers

@SpudsandGravy

My mother used to tell me that I looked as though I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, but that may have been an Irish one :-)

South West UK here,got told that a lot as a child!

Doolally

He's got the Doolally tap (mad)

Red hat and no drawers

@yesyoudoknowme

'Enough blue sky to make sailor a pair of trousers' if there were few clouds

Yes to mean it will all be fine if there was enough blue sky. No one had heard of that when I used it recently!

You don't see many that size much bigger (remarking on a large vegetable or similar)

Reckons he's body everyself (someone with a big opinion of themselves)

You could shave a dead mouse without waking it (speaking of a very sharp knife)

Dirty cup of tea (spoonful of clotted cream in your tea)

My Mother (from the South West) would say if anyone was being boastful " Eee can work wonders and shit marigolds"

It’s showing down south and
It’s snowing down south- for the petticoat thing- anyone remember a late 80’s fashion where you purposely wore the underskirt showing an inch below a long skirt? My Gran and Grandma never got that!

I’m hungry- go upstairs and eat the monkey!!??

If I don’t see you through the week, I’ll see you through the window - no idea?

Dear old Nan used to always “spend a penny” instead of going for a wee.

This coat will see me out
Spend a penny
Wearing your birthday suit

My Lancashire granny called children “chickabiddies”. My Devon granny called young girls “little maids”. And a naughty child was a “toad”.

Both my grannies used to say whats for you will no go by you, I say this to my kids all the time. Never a truer word was said.

Bother
Only my mum and winnie the pooh say it, I'm sure!

My grandma would say "they wouldn't stop a pig in a passage" if someone had bandy legs. So visual. I love it.