Saying a saying

A sandwich short of a picnic
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My mother's was Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.

My dad used to say ‘I don’t cut my cabbages twice’ meaning he wouldn’t repeat things.

As much use as a chocolate teapot - often muttered under breath through gritted teeth!

1987H2001M2002Inanny

Sodapop and MerylStreep, my choices were only meant as a bit of fun,you know,it is when you laugh and smile!!and yes it should have read as Hell.Maybe that's where I will be sent for trying to be funny!!

Didn't quite hit the button then did it 1987nanny

I think some sayings are on the cruel side when you look at them - I admit I do use the 'not the brightest button/sharpest tool' occasionally but I'm not necessarily meaning dumb biglouis - I suppose it's partly context.

'only dead fish go with the flow' is one I could subscribe to probably because I used to regularly find myself fighting against the stream.

I do say:
A penny for them...?
The ball's in your court
Don't count your chickens...
Speak of the devil
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

I'm suddenly uncertain as to what sort of sayings we are looking at here!!

Are we really thinking of proverbs?

My grandmother used to say:

S/he has all her chairs at home (is smart)

and also

Not the sharpest tool in the box (dumb)

My mothers' most frequest sayings:-

You can't feed a family on one mans' wage

You leave things at your finger ends (dont put things away)

Dont be like that (a stock answer to anything she didnt agree with or understand)

My favorite Liverpool expression:-

God bless you and your one eyelash (to someone vain or selfish)

Was extremely surprised when Suzy Dent of Countdown yesterday said she had never heard “not as green as cabbage looking”! I used to say it frequently to the children I taught…

Sodapop and MerylStreep, my choices were only meant as a bit of fun,you know,it is when you laugh and smile!!and yes it should have read as Hell.Maybe that's where I will be sent for trying to be funny!!

They are fra[from] the fell backs.For someone who seems not very bright.
They didn't know if they were coming or going.
A fish out of water.

Hell hath no fury… is a misquotation from The Mourning Bride (William Congreve).

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Once a pedant, always a pedant!

"After four days fish and visitors smell. "

I remember as a child, hearing the saying -
‘She is no better than she ought to be ‘
Cannot ever hearing the said of a man ! 😏😄

I need (Brexit ;) ) like a fish needs a bicycle.

On my fridge currently I have 'only dead fish go with the flow'.

I will not agree with the first one, but my partner would wholeheartedly agree with the second.

Don't agree with the first one 1987nanny and presumably you have a typo in the second, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, that one I can relate to .