Favourite expressions

[mikmas]

'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)

[Marco]

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??'



Marco.

[Joe]

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 ..."'

[hal55]

Small things amuse small minds, and
Brevity and incisiveness are underrated virtues.

[mikmas]

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 )

[Len Co]

On buying new footwear in Wales one could expect the compliment 'Nice boots them shoes' or similarly 'Nice coat that jacket'

[Batty]

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.

[Marco]

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.