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We have many wonderful and amusing expressions in the English language - I'm sure all other languages have their own as well - a couple of my favourites are
- from building/engineering sites in Sussex, I assume it was local due to it's country-ish feel, shoddy tradesmen and engineers were often described by one (fussy) old boy as 'rough as a badger's @rse'
- a graphic image but used in the pub and drawing room alike 'you can't polish a turd'.
Stryder5
11-08-2018, 15:23
Having bad luck is often expressed as:
"If I fell into a bucketful of tits, I would come out sucking my thumb".
Gary
prestonchipfryer
11-08-2018, 15:29
''Tight as a mackerel's arse, that's watertight'' for those whose wallets are slow to appear.
''As cold as a witches tit'' is another saying used widely in the winter.
''Daft as a brush'' was often used by the country folk.
:)
Beobloke
11-08-2018, 19:22
“About as much use as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest”
For a particularly difficult task - “Like trying to nail blancmange to the ceiling”
mightymonoped
11-08-2018, 20:25
“Like trying to strike a match on wet tripe”.
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What's for you will not go past you.(if your due something you'll get it) --- I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking. (im not as daft as I look)
and a Scottish one,
Lang may yer lum reek, which is oft said at Hogmany and means, I wish you well for the future.
How aboot.... Geeza swatch o' yer snatch! :D
Marco.
RobbieGong
11-08-2018, 21:15
About as much use as a chocolate tea pot :D (now that's about as useless as useless gets in my book :lol: )
You're a wee scunner ...
Ha - seize a haud o yer dobber:D
Marco.
Oh no! This is turning into an Irvine Welsh novel!
I had a Scouse mate years ago who used to say " crafty as a cart load of monkeys ", always made me smile.
I once worked with a drummer from New York who had the heaviest Brooklyn accent who's favourite response to any question was " fuck 'em "
I had a Scouse mate years ago who used to say " crafty as a cart load of monkeys ", always made me smile.
I once worked with a drummer from New York who had the heaviest Brooklyn accent who's favourite response to any question was " fuck 'em "
Heard the first one before lol.
Face like a bagful of spanners, or alternatively, a bulldog chewing a wasp.
Face like a bagful of spanners, or alternatively, a bulldog chewing a wasp.
First one is good. Not heard it for years.
My dad used to say a face like a well skelpt arse
walpurgis
12-08-2018, 06:47
My mate used to say "a face like a dog's bum with a hat on". :D
My old Mum used to say, about someone tight, ‘He wouldn’t give his shit to the crows’, I used to come back with ‘they wouldn’t want it’
'Mad as a box of frogs'.
Marco.
My old Mum used to say, about someone tight, ‘He wouldn’t give his shit to the crows’...
Or the Scottish version: 'He widnae gie ye the steam aff his pish'.
Marco.
'Here's tae us. Wha's like us? Gey few, and they're all deid.'
'All the world's queer, bar thee and me, and I'm none too sure about thee.'
'Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding'
'Couldn't punch a hole in a wet Echo'.
'We'll be waiting here till Donnelly docks'.
'Here's tae us. Wha's like us? Gey few, and they're all deid.'
Yes, that was another popular one up in Scotland:)
Marco.
Or the Scottish version: 'He widnae gie ye the steam aff his pish'.
Marco.
Or this one, popular in Wales when I was a kid - he could peel an orange in his pocket (mun, optional)
Pigmy Pony
12-08-2018, 11:52
We have many wonderful and amusing expressions in the English language - I'm sure all other languages have their own as well - a couple of my favourites are
- from building/engineering sites in Sussex, I assume it was local due to it's country-ish feel, shoddy tradesmen and engineers were often described by one (fussy) old boy as 'rough as a badger's @rse'
- a graphic image but used in the pub and drawing room alike 'you can't polish a turd'.
When trying to make something rough look acceptable I often say (not to the customer) "You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter".
Said of someone with less than film star looks: "He looks like someone set this head on fire, then put it out with a cricket bat".
A couple of Asian builders in Preston drive a van with the slogan "You've had the Cowboys, now try the Indians".
Or this one, popular in Wales when I was a kid - he could peel an orange in his pocket (mun, optional)
Lol.... How about the infamous [but highly successful] Glasgow chat-up line, uttered in not so hushed tones, whilst at a dance hall with one's lady friend, and elegantly gliding her gently across the floor: "Aye hen, ye don't sweat much fur a fat burd!"
Marco
someone with less than film star looks: "He looks like someone set this head on fire, then put it out with a cricket bat".
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Or ‘fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down’
Lol.... How about the infamous [but highly successful] Glasgow chat-up line, uttered in not so hushed tones, whilst at a dance hall with one's lady friend, and elegantly gliding her gently across the floor: "Aye hen, ye don't sweat much fur a fat burd!"
Marco
lol, it is 'your light on yir feet for a fat burd' around here
Pigmy Pony
12-08-2018, 12:03
"Don't turn the light on and ruin a good job" and "It looks great from my house".
walpurgis
12-08-2018, 12:07
'keep taking the ugly pills, they're obviously working'
Some of my mother's (many) sayings:
'You don't know where you are, till there you are'.
'You may as well kill a man as frighten him to death'
'Close the door, good people are scarce'
'Sit down, you're making the room look untidy'
'Who knitted your face and dropped a stitch?'
'As tight as a gnat's chuff'
'You look like you swallowed a pound and shat a fiver' (if smiling smugly)
Or, after she's spent hours in the bedroom, getting ready for a night out, and upon seeing her in all her splendour, you utter the sweetest of words: 'Is that meant tae be you wi yer make-up ON??'
:D:eyebrows:
Marco.
Not exactly a saying, but remembered from a Les Dawson sketch:
'I cuddled up to my wife in bed, and whispered sweet nothings in her ear. Finally she responded with those three little words that every man longs to hear: "If you must ..."'
Small things amuse small minds, and
Brevity and incisiveness are underrated virtues.
Small things amuse small minds,
Where I was growing up the insult was 'little things please little minds' - and the retort was always '... and little pants fit little behinds'
(made no sense to me then either - but it worked, and could get you a black eye :lol: )
On buying new footwear in Wales one could expect the compliment 'Nice boots them shoes' or similarly 'Nice coat that jacket'
My Dad used to say " For a window, you make a great door" especially if we walk in front of him while Cricket was on the TV.
When I had done something bad (such as 'posting' bangers through old people's letterboxes, on Bonfire night), and unfortunately had been caught, my dad used to say: 'Pick yer windae!';)
Marco.
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