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Esspee Thu 15-Jul-21 08:14:54

Lighthearted thread for a beautiful day.

Every now and then you hear someone use a saying you have never heard before but which sticks in you mind.

One example for me was when OH was being persuaded to give religion a try. He came out with “you’d have more chance of converting me into a block of flats”.. I still laugh thinking about it.

lemongrove Mon 26-Jul-21 22:57:14

A glass of Corporation pop ( water)

How long is it since anyone has heard or used themselves, any of the old sayings that used to be commonplace? They will die out ( if they haven’t already done so.)

MissAdventure Mon 26-Jul-21 23:01:46

I try to use an old saying every day.
I think it would/will be a terrible pity for them to be forgotten.

Callistemon Mon 26-Jul-21 23:28:03

lemongrove

A glass of Corporation pop ( water)

How long is it since anyone has heard or used themselves, any of the old sayings that used to be commonplace? They will die out ( if they haven’t already done so.)

I offered a DGD some Corporation pop not long ago and she was really excited!
Until she realised ?

Spice101 Tue 27-Jul-21 00:43:48

My grandmother always used to say
"No good comes of tomfoolery" if we were being silly

trisher Tue 27-Jul-21 09:35:04

lemon I remember "Corporation pop". Funny how Corporations are now Councils as well.

We weren't allowed to use my grandad's expression for when he was hungry. My mum thought it was too disgusting.
"I could eat a scabby 'orse between two flagstones"

nightowl Tue 27-Jul-21 10:47:36

One of my mum’s which I love

‘Tha must think I’ve fell off a flittin’

(Or you must think I’m stupid )

And the next part of ‘this won’t buy the baby a new bonnet’…. ‘or mend it’s old one’

nightowl Tue 27-Jul-21 10:49:03

Another of my mum’s

‘You know what thought did… followed a muck cart and thought it were a wedding’

Lexisgranny Tue 27-Jul-21 11:01:33

On being asked:
What something was -“ It’s a play hole for meddlers.”
What something cost - “Money and fair words, and your impudence to ask”.
On not finishing food - “Eat it against you do want it”

grandtanteJE65 Tue 27-Jul-21 11:06:56

Describing a skinflint in Glasgow, and according to James Herriot in Yorkshire too, "If he gets haud a' a fiver by gey it's a prisoner in his pocket."

Gwenisgreat1 Tue 27-Jul-21 11:20:44

The one that stick in my mind - Back to auld claes n porridge - generally after having to dress up for an occasion!

Clawdy Tue 27-Jul-21 17:20:35

My gran used to say " It were as black as the 'obs of 'ell in there...." It was when I got older I realised it was about the "hobs of Hell"! We also used to say , if it was hot: "I'm sweating cobs!" Not sure what the cobs were.....

trisher Wed 28-Jul-21 09:43:19

My gran used to say "It's like the Black Hole of Calcutta in here"
I don't think she realised it was a real place (and it's probably racist now)

trisher Wed 28-Jul-21 09:45:13

When they were brushing my hair and pulled gran and mum both said "Pride feels no pain"

Callistemon Wed 28-Jul-21 10:07:09

trisher

My gran used to say "It's like the Black Hole of Calcutta in here"
I don't think she realised it was a real place (and it's probably racist now)

I don't think it's racist but comparing somewhere to the actual Black Hole of Calcutta would be a huge understatement.

It means dark, crowded and suffocating. Many British died in there overnight.

trisher Wed 28-Jul-21 10:16:49

I know that Callistemon. I don't imagine my grandmother did. In fact I didn't until I was in my late teens when I learned more history. She used it for somewhere that was dark or badly lit.

Callistemon Wed 28-Jul-21 10:27:58

I heard it too when I was younger, rarely at all now.