Sayings

[Anonymous]

Hello guys!

I hope you are having a good week so far. Cheer up! We're almost there.

I thought it could be a good idea to create a thread about the sayings you guys know. Probably some of them are very popular but I'm sure there are a lot I/we have never heard.

What phrases/sayings/proverbs represent your life?

Which ones do you usually say?

I'll go first: 'The grass is always greener on the other side'

Meaning: You always think that what's happening to others is better than yours. 

[Anonymous]

sit still on your hands,

speak when you're spoken to, 

& no fidgetting.

Good Manners Cost Nothing

Mind Your Manners

Eat It All Up,

What about all those starving kiddies in Africa

(the famine in BIAFRA was att)

You sit there,

at the table, 

until the rest of us have finished eating

It's like getting blood out of a stone with you

Go out & play

& Don't get your clothes dirty

the above remembered from growing up in the family home, little village outside Classy Cas'..... was mentioned in the Doomesday Book, but afterwards did not get much funding, despite an Anglo Saxon ruin & beautiful Anglo Saxon church, sad to see now with very heavy chains locking the church porch gates, & all churchyard trees cut down to nowt

[jonsie]

Don't come running to me if you fall and break a leg. 

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

Don't come running to me if you fall and break a leg. 

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My dad used to say that to me often (laughing as he said it)..

[Anonymous]

cry-baby ..... scaredy-cat ..... Gypsy Jane (to do with winning 3rd prize in fancy dress competition on village Carnival Day 1965) ..... Jam Butty ..... JR (Ewing, from I guessing my smile is a bit rather 'all or nothing) 

long time ago now

now self-styled, with lower case letters after my surname ..... gem = good enough mum :womanvery-happy:  

[Anonymous]

Jimmy Carr with some stereotypical welsh sayings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj59OB2_Bcg

[Anonymous]

You Can't Keep A Good Girl Down For Long   

[Anonymous]

Give 'er an Inch ... & ... She'll tek a Yard    (me, Guilty as charged on that one = holds hand up) + (hangs head in shame) ... ... ... Shame on Jane 😞

You can only go for water at the same well for sooooo long ... as ... the well will run dry

H2O is the Elixir of Life 

The Peasants Are Revolting .... *Proud To Be A Pleb*... Drag'em down to your level 

[Anonymous]

*Illegitima non carborundum*

[pgn]

Illegitimis non carborundum - don't let the b*st*rds grind you down. (Mock Latin).

[pgn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

*Illegitima non carborundum*

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Bah - you got it up there just as I did, @Anonymous!