WELL....I'LL BE A MONKEY'S UNCLE......why would you want to be a monkeys uncle ?
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WELL....I'LL BE A MONKEY'S UNCLE......why would you want to be a monkeys uncle ?
Do you think i came down in the last shower:D
flogging a dead 'orse................who would want to?
I know the origins of a couple of these but they are racist (comes frm working for the council....get fired if you use them!!!)
happyone
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The Long and the Short of it....
the long and the short of it
something that you say when you intend to tell someone something in the quickest and simplest way possible. "Anyway, the long and the short of it is that he's not going to be working for us any more."
IdiI()Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms © Cambridge University Press 1998
the long and the short of it
the truth of the matter. 'The long and the short of it is that physical activity is extremely good for your health!'
IdiA()Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003
Is it me?
Or by the time you've said " The long and the short of it is.." you might as well have said what you were going to say anyway.... and save time lol !!:p
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:hugs::hugs::hugs:
:flowers:
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush
Winners never quit and quitters never win
Liar, Liar pants on fire
Fair and square
i also remember that "touch wood" was from the olden days something to do with when the boats capsized they would hold onto the wood in the water and it meant luck for them to live.
"back to square one" came fromthe old game of snakes and ladders :)
hehe i love this thread :) xxxxxxx
Like a dog with 2 willys:D
Sick as a parrott.
Youl never get the right side of bacon. (thats one me dad would say to me if i was naughty. The right side being the back bacon)
2 sandwiches short of a picnic
If you had a brain youd be dangerous
heres one me hubby always says:
Just remember a bird in the hand means s..t on the wrist
Take care
LYNN xx
saved by the bell, for when people get bruied but they arent dead so they used the rope thing with the bell on it :shrug:
to give someone the cold shoulder - thats from when guests visited for too long and the people who they were visiting would give them the bad part of the animal but not warm so they got the saying cold shoulder.
i dont know if this was true or not but when people say a frog in your throat poeple actually used to put frogs in their mouths cos apparently it stopped their cough :wacko::shrug::shrug:
mind your own beeswax, woman used to use beeswax for small pox but it wasnt right to mention to toeher women if they needed to use it or not
getting out of the wrong side of bed means you are not meant to put your left leg down first
golf means gentlemen only women forbidden :lac:
when people ask me how I am I answer:
If i was any better I couldnt stand it. Thats an old saying but im baffled where its come from.
Wheres the saying "Im knackered" come from?
Heres another few sayings
Two wrongs dont make a right.
Wheres that one come from?
Better the devil you know than the devil you dont.
In stoke on trent we call people duck. Its a term of endearment, but ive always wondered why.
This thread has had me and my family and friends launghing and baffled why we say the things we do.
Take care
LYNN xx