Sayings?

[Greenleaves]

Always wondered why we say "nutty as a fruit cake" and "daft as a brush" anyone know why?

[Fleurisa]

fruit cake often has nuts in it

[veggiechicken]

There are so many sayings that you could have quoted - I'm worried that you chose those two
Has someone just said them to you

[Greenleaves]

Always VC and far worse

Thanks both

[Bren In Pots]

Lots of meaning to saying here :-

As daft as a brush

me I've always liked 'Mad as a hatter' ever since I read Alice in wonderland as a kid.

[Greenleaves]

Now I know mad as a hatter, thats because Miliners used mercury to stiffen hats.

[snakeshack]

I like the one about not stepping into arguments, think it's polish in origin
" not my circus not my monkeys"


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[Bal]

My dads favourite saying was
" Women have many faults, but men have only two, everything they say, and everything they do!"

[Martin H]

I rather like the extremely non-pc,

"A dog, a wife, a walnut tree
The more you beat them the better they be".

[Bill HH]

"Daft as a brush" although not the origin the saying was popularised as the catch phrase of comedian Ken Platt (how many people remember him?)

[Raybon]

Someone once said to me in reference to her OH cooking the tea for a change "It's not like he pulled the Pope from quicksand......"

[Raybon]

I rather like the extremely non-pc,

"A dog, a wife, a walnut tree
The more you beat them the better they be".

By some 'wit' from the Middle Ages.....thank goodness we've moved on.

[Rhona]

A Jewish saying...it's been in my head as long as I can remember and seems apt in so many situations - 'When six doctors tell you that you're ill, you lie down.'

[Vince G]

An older lady I used to work with years ago used to say, "a whistling hen gathers no moss". Not a scooby what that is meant to mean" .....anyone?

[Raybon]

Think she's mixed the following up?

'A whistling woman and a crowing hen
Are neither use to God nor men'
And
'A rolling stone gathers no moss'