'Ye Olde' English sayings...

[anthony70]

she,s got a face like a bulldog chewing a nettle/wasp.

she,s got tits like a roof tilers nail pouch.
and a fanny like a well worn sea boot.

no point having a dog and barking yourself.

if its too hot in the kitchen, get out.

[kliome]

She had a fanny like a bucket of smashed crabs - DM

Or ..a fanny like a clowns pocket.

[robbo]

"how the hell can you be so ugly having only one head"............one i heard the other week at work,not a typical saying but by fuck its a good-en

[jimslim]

Well this has fairly gone downhill ...........

OK then - she had pissflaps like Harry Rednapps eyelids .

Ye Olde sayings for the new millennium

[anthony70]

she had a fanny like velvet, and a bum like ten year old boy.= my bro.

[kliome]

She had a fanny like.. a badly packed keebab
.. like a stab wound in a gorilla's back
.. like a wizard's sleave
.. like a plumber's tool box
.. like a gutted trout

A few others that tickle me

I was in those knickers like a rat up a drain pipe

He was sweating like a peadophile in a Mickey Mouse suite

You wouldn't even ride her into battle

He was sweating like a scouser in Dixons

I've got a mouth like Ghandi's flip flop

[ciobha]

One of my favourite sayings ever came from a BM on this forum.

" As mad as a bag of ferrets"

Jimslim - take a bow son!

[Guest]

As dumb as a box of rocks......

One of triplets, her and two short planks....

[Road Runner]

(Tomcat @ Mar. 17 2009,16:57) "now youve let the cat out of the bag" has a pretty nasty origin.....

TC is correct  -  the Kings Regulations specified the exact details of the cat, length, construction etc.
It was made on the ship by one of the bosun's mates and was required to kept in a red velvet bag.  The army had similar regulations.

Lots of the sayings we use today can be traced back to shipboard usage.  200 years ago most people worked in very small groups or on their own.
The Royal Navy and the dockyards were by far the biggest employers and therefore the biggest grouping of people to exchange sayings.
The British Army was only about 1/4 the size of the Navy.


Sayings I've always liked:-

The more ye know the less the better.

Bangs like a shithouse door.

Eyes like a shithouse sewer rat.

You seem to have mistaken me for someone who gives a shit.

Finally not a saying as such but a bit of graffiti that always makes me laugh:-

Also available in white  (written on the back of a very dirty white van)

RR.

[Guest]

A face like a mixed grill (or a rusty bag of nails)

A mouth like a torn pocket

If he/she had brain they would be dangerous

As thick as shit

[blonde_havoc]

A friend's father used to say: "Boy, you'd rather run through hell in gasoline shorts than mess with me."

My dad sometimes says:"X-person is crazier than a shithouse rat."

[anthony70]

i was brought up with
you wait till your dads get home..!

shut the door, the fires on.

eh, its not cold, go and put a jumper on

who,s opened the new loaf.?

[Tomcat]

(Stogie @ Mar. 17 2009,23:06) I was told that this came from market traders selling sacks of rabbits

You may be right. Some of these sayings have dubius origins. I just happen to be listening to a radio show where this was the subject. The cat out the bag meaning that some bugger is for it now.

The seamen would have to make the cat out of rope and put it in a little bag until the dreaded hour. The good ol days eh!

[Drift Spunk]

She could suck the chrome off that bumper

[Naang Faa]

A Thai one..
Bit torng lang pra
You put gold on Buddhas back- (you do good things you don't want others to see)
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