expressions

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' behind like a school girl, face like a museum ' ( from Italy )

'Little children , little problems...' ( Italy )
'When they're little you could eat them up. When they're bigger, you wish you had' (Spain)
Has anybody got anymore ?

'It's a good life - if you don't weaken' UK/grandparents' generation

more of a mess than a mad woman's knitting
up and down like a bride's nightie
face like a slapped arse
face like a bulldog that's eaten a bee

The last two are phrases from a lady who used to baby-sit me when I was little. Didn't really understand them and got told off when I repeated them, but I thought she was great!

sleeps like a baby.......

Ha ha, good one!

'Pig in knickers' is my favourite.

Happy as Larry - who the f* is Larry?!

"I'm so hungry I could eat a scabby horse between two mattresses."

"I haven't laughed so much since granny caught her tits in the mangle." Both RN sayings from DH.

"To buy a wigwam for a horse's bridle" - my grandpa's answer to my asking him where he was going.

"As old as my tongue and six months older than my teeth" - Grandpa's answer to questions about his age.

Shit happens.

"I haven't laughed so much since granny caught her tits in the mangle."

Ask your DH if this should actually be:

"Laugh, I nearly shat, I had not laughed so hard since Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle."

Ask him puurrrrlllleeeasse.

Pie, he says he's heard lots of variations along those lines but none of them scan as well as the 'granny' version.

Variations on some others mentioned here:

"Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp"

"So hungry I could eat a horse between two breadvans" - a favourite of my mum's

I like:

"I love kids, but I couldn't eat a whole one"

Aimed at my brother, whose legs are on the skinny side: "Last time I saw legs like that, they were hanging out of a nest"

heres one:

Face like a bulldog licking p**s off of a stinging nettle..

mmmmm

Fair enough sue, I just wondered if he was a Derek and Clive fan as they started the whole tit in mangle laughing thing off.

"Face like a smacked arse" is a fave of mine!

Derek & Clive?? Never heard of them! Who are they?

"A mouth like Ghandis left flip flop"-when you wake after drinking too much!!!

Not that anyone here would know how that feels surely!

Suedonim, Derek and Clive were really Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. They brought out a 'rude' LP (if you're asking what an 'lp' is, you must be very young !)

it's about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. (or a chocolate fireguard)
My p's granny used to say 'shit with sugar on' when he asked her what was for tea.

mmm my mum used to say "shit with chips" and we use to go "oh no,no with chips!"
she also says
"there`s always a pot for a shit"when someone horrible gets a boyfriend/girlfriend

muck for luck

ESAD which is a horrible insult that only myself and 3 others know from college.

Aha, I understand now, Mmm. I suspect Pete'n' Dud got it from the Royal Navy rather than the other way round - all that salty sailor talk etc. As for my age -I'm ancient, with two boys in their 20's as well as two dd's of 16 and 7.

A saying about a nosy person. 'She likes to know the ins and outs of a cat's *rse.'

There are others but I don't think I can put them on a family website like this!!

Irish one: "Ah sure enjoy yourself. You'll be a long time dead". Jolly lot, aren't we?!!!

'I'll go to the foot of our stairs' - whats all that about?