Paul C. Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Save your breath to cool your porridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Lovely Welsh expression, "can't educate pork". And one my Welsh mum came out with, "none more blind that they that won't see" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C. Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Paul thank you, my can't educate pork is obviously a shorthand of yours. I have always wondered where it comes from. I new bit of knowledge for the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C. Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Hi Donald, I first came across this on a rc thermal soaring site but they replaced 'sing' with 'fly' made me smile 😁 Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff 1959 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Upon seeing a bit of blue sky in an otherwise grey cloud cover an old lady I was travelling with said 'there wasn't enough sky to make a dutchman a pair of trousers'. I think you can transpose the lack of blue sky for anything you're short of. Not enough balsa etc would be fitting here!Edited By Cliff 1959 on 19/03/2017 13:38:47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZ e flyer Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 You can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse. As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. I toured a restored printing press in New Zealand recently. A very old one that was run by French missionaries in the early 1800's. there are an awful lot of sayings that came out of that trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZ e flyer Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 As busy as a one legged man at a butt kicking party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Been waiting for the common one on useless items/people so here goes, 'As much use as a chocolate teapot/fireguard' Edited By GONZO on 19/03/2017 13:52:35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Not forgetting the male derogatory comment 'you big girls blouse' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 From a police force a long time ago before computers and correct thought processes, closing thoughts on police incident logs. Incidents involving violent, aggro, verbal abuse, etc. NHBO, for no human beings involved. Incidents like bee swarms, cat up tree, NTDOB, for nothing to do with old bill. There are obscene version of this. And a favourite from a man mountain ex colleague, growled out, "pond-life". Not forgetting another colleague universally known as Bungalow. Or the coroners officer, Dai Death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plummet Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 My family's version... Child - "Mam, What's for tea?" Reply -"Bread and pull it." Flapitt's family version... Child - "Mam, What's for tea?" Reply -"Bread and pull it and a jump at the pantry latch." Old Auntie - "Sonny, could you bend down and pick that up for me. I've got a bone in my back" Confusion ... Someone round these parts might say. "Wait while I have put my coat on." Then at a level crossing it used to say "Do not cross while the lights are flashing"! Nowadays ... Please tidy up. As a kid I would hear .. "Just side that up will you." Nowadays ... Please close the door. Then... Put wood in t'oil." Literary reference ... In Alice in Wonderland the dormouse tells a story about three girls who live down a treacle well. 1. As a kid molasses was known as Black Treacle, and Golden Syrup as treacle. 2. In the Ironbridge gorge there are caves known as the tar tunnels. I have heard that another name for them was treacle mines. (Although my recent web searches have failed to confirm this.) We had a friend who trained to be a nurse in Cardiff. She worked in the William Diamond ward. (Web searches have confirmed this one.) In typical fashion the name William Diamond was often abreviated to Willy Di. Plummet Edited By Plummet on 19/03/2017 16:05:36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 From my welsh Ma and nain "He couldn't stop a pig in a poke" - meaning the he was bandy legged "Its a better day adell adell day afore" - Its a better day today than it was the day before "Be careful or the wizard will get you" - a reference to the herbalist the used to treat animals and humans pre the NHS in mid Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwain Dibley. Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Can you whistle son ? Yeah Dad , why ? I thought so, You've got larks legs. You'll see if you hear summat.!! Shut yer mouth and eat yer Dinner !! Arranging to meet up......If I get there first I'll put a mark on the wall......If you get here first, Rub it off !! You can't hang a man with a wooden leg son. Why's that Dad ? You need a rope....!! D.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidKP Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Dave Hopkin, "He couldn't stop a pig in a poke" - meaning the he was bandy legged I always heard that as "He couldnt stop a pig in a passage" "Dont buy a pig in a poke" meant dont buy anything unseen, a poke being a cloth sack..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Dave, I think this is a reference to the Sin Eater of rural Welsh history, one who eats a meal laid out on the corpse, and takes the sins of life, in exchange for the calories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetenor Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Going round the Wrekin was a Shropshire saying. ME what's that Gran Gran It's a Layhole for a meddler and a crutch for a lame duck . A layhole was a trap set in the sand in foundries to prevent sabotage .It would cause an explosion if someone attempted to interfere with the casting GRAN Don't sit on that cold step .you'll get chin cough in your bottom DAD put your A;;;se to an anchor you are making the place untidy - Or if you tripped he would say Your feet need rudders on themMOTHER /Yoi'd mither the skin off a flea/ Mother/ GRAN He's that mean he'd skin alouse to make an overcoat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Or "can't knock skin off rice puddin" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plummet Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 We're Yorkshire folk. Said of my Grandfather ... He's so mean he'd nip a currant in half. Plummet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Posted by Donald Fry on 19/03/2017 17:09:11: Dave, I think this is a reference to the Sin Eater of rural Welsh history, one who eats a meal laid out on the corpse, and takes the sins of life, in exchange for the calories. No thats a different story - the Wizard was a real character who travelled round the Upper Wye and Servern valleys administering herbal medicine in the 20's and 30's some times also called the conjuror I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 And the one that perennially mystifies me.. "Cheap at half the price" - meaning you got a bargain, but the words say the opposite!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 My these sayings are 'bostin'. Gana get me a kipper tie with na sugar. Or something like that. As a Londoner I wasn't exactly greeted warmly during my brief stay in the Black Country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Posted by GONZO on 19/03/2017 11:27:53: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Not everybody manages to get that one right every time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Don Fry Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Got most, but what on Gods earth is a bo, and a wo. And Dave, second knowledge acquisition or the day, thank you.. And George wubblewee is a pale shadow to the present incumbent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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