Silly Sayings !

[Nicos]

Eat your crusts or your hair won't curl.

[noviceveggrower]

Don't know if this is just a family one by

Don't keep messing about with your belly button or your bum will fall off.

My dad use to say a belly button was actually a little bolt that was keeping your bum on so if you kept messing with your belly button you will undo the bolt. He also use to say its very hard to put back on so you'd have to go to the doctors carrying your bum to get them to put it back on.

[Bigmallly]

As bent as a ten bob note...................

[Bigmallly]

When someone bangs their head, another person will say "Ooh, I felt that"......................no you dint.

[Guest]

I was always told red and green. But now reading this blue and green would make more sense. I've been telling it wrong for years...

I always knew it as red and green. They are complimentary colours/ opposites on a colour wheel so to most people they are clashing colours

[mrswadders]

it's a bit black over bill's mother's
he/she is a sandwich short of a picnic
I anna gonna go there
you've gone from the sublime to the cor blimey

[mothhawk]

It looks a bit black over Bill's mother's.

Very common expression in the Midlands - I guess we all know where your mum lives, Bill!

Ah, beat me to it Mrswadders!

[mothhawk]

As bent as a ten bob note...................

Bent as a FIVE bob note, BM, shirley?

[mothhawk]

Put the wood in the hole. (close the door)

[Bigmallly]

Bent as a FIVE bob note, BM, shirley?

Thinking about it, I'm not sure if it was as bent as a nine bob note....................

"A person who is as bent as a nine bob note is dishonest. The reference comes from pre-decimalisation in UK (1971), when a ten shilling (bob) note was valid currency but no such note as nine shillings existed."

[Martin H]

Bent as a FIVE bob note, BM, shirley?

No no no, it's "as bent as a NINE bob note".

[Bill HH]

"It looks black over Bill's mothers"

This allways caused me confusion when I was young, because I was Bill and my mother was standing next to me.

[Bill HH]

"Re rose for medlar, would you like a lick" This seems it wouls be more likely as Red rose, but thats how I heard it as a child. it was used whenever a child asked an awkward question.

and

"A wimwam off a custard mill" used when a child asked what a thing was when it was probably not a pleasant answer. Its no wonder I grew up clueless.

[Lumpy]

Red hat, no draws - one of Grandmar's favourites.

Black as the hobbs?

[mothhawk]

Red hat, no draws - one of Grandmar's favourites.

Black as the hobbs?

In our family the saying was fur coat, no knickers.

And - as black as Newgate knocker