Unusual sayings

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

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 ?

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

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"

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’

Another of my mum’s

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

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”

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."

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

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.....

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)

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

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.

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.

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