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Thread #62965 Message #3108475
Posted By: GUEST,JohnCNZ
06-Mar-11 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Old sayings from childhood
Subject: RE: Folklore: Old sayings from childhood
A random selection from my earlier years in the UK:
Your dad wasn't a glazier! ("Get out the way - I can't see.")
X?! I'll give you X!! (Said threateningly after you'd had the impertinence to ask for X.)
Little fishes lick their dishes - all say "amen".
Yard and a half of pump-water. (Said of an extremely thin person.)
Born in a barn? (To any non-shutter of doors.)