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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anybody know any old sayings and how they came to be?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anybody? Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buggerit = its an old welsh Sheep Farmers saying

Jones the Gimp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old is gold

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gertcha cowson.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The buck stops here / with them.

Apparently it's based on gambling / poker reasons...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The saying rule of thumb came from the days when it was ok to beat your wife but the law was you couldn't hit her with anything wider than your thumb

money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The saying rule of thumb came from the days when it was ok to beat your wife but the law was you couldn't hit her with anything wider than your thumb

money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope "

Two very interesting ones :0)

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Buggerit = its an old welsh Sheep Farmers saying

Jones the Gimp "

Looool

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bitch the Pot.

Means to pour the tea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can lead a horse to water.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pot calling kettle

You will never make old bones.

Tealeaf

Her

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Every silver lining has a cloud - depends if you are an optimist or pessimist

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Every silver lining has a cloud - depends if you are an optimist or pessimist "

Isn't it every cloud has a silver lining? Lol

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills


"Every silver lining has a cloud - depends if you are an optimist or pessimist

Isn't it every cloud has a silver lining? Lol"

Man who bites tongue when drinking tea, makes awful mess

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Every silver lining has a cloud - depends if you are an optimist or pessimist

Isn't it every cloud has a silver lining? Lol

Man who bites tongue when drinking tea, makes awful mess"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The saying rule of thumb came from the days when it was ok to beat your wife but the law was you couldn't hit her with anything wider than your thumb

money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope "

Very interesting. I'm enlightened

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Man who go to bed with itchy bum wakes up with smelly finger. Self explanatory

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Making a rod for your own back! ha ha

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Man who go to bed with itchy bum wakes up with smelly finger. Self explanatory "

Hahaha quality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A man with his hands in his pockets feels cocky all day.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

There was an old one about two birds bushes in hand or something

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope "

WRONG lol

Prisoners were given the job of unravelling ships old damaged rope, and paid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kick the Bucket"

After the Norman invasion, a variety of Norman French words were introduced to England, one was Buquet, a word for rafter (Bastardised, in the English way, to Bucket). When a pig was slaughtered it would be tied to a rafter by the hind legs and then have it's throat slit. This would make it "Kick the Bucket"

"To be Sent to Coventry"

During the English Civil War, Coventry was a Parliamentary stronghold and Royalist Prisoners of War (of political value) would be sent to be sent, on their parole (or promise not to escape or to commit sabotage) to be interned i Coventry. No one would speak to them.....

"Give the Cold Shoulder"

Int the high middle medieval period the rules of Chivalry dictated that a person of equal status should be given hospitality, be fed and given a place to sleep. It was not polite to over stay ones welcome, but equally one was not able to ask a guest to leave. The polite method was so serve the unwelcome party a "cold shoulder" of mutton.........

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Saved by the bell

The way this came around was back in the day people were accidently buried alive so they made special coffins with a rope attached to a bell. And the night gourds would listen for bells at night obviously lol hence saved by the bell

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Saved by the bell

The way this came around was back in the day people were accidently buried alive so they made special coffins with a rope attached to a bell. And the night gourds would listen for bells at night obviously lol hence saved by the bell "

Gaurds*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope

WRONG lol

Prisoners were given the job of unravelling ships old damaged rope, and paid "

Not quite, this job was performed by children in Alms Houses, Foundling Homes and Poor Houses. Prisons were extremely rare up until the social reforms of the mid 19th Century, anyone convicted of a Non Capital Crime would be given a sentence of lashes, be placed in "the stocks" or indentured and sent to the colonies (either North America or later to Australia).

Money for Old Rope is, truly, more firmly attached to the sale of the Hangman's Rope. Sorry............

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By *all-Eddies QosCouple
over a year ago

wirral

When you forgot what you were going to say.....

"must have been a lie"

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By *luezuluMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

Well seduce my aged footwear

Or as my old gran used to say

Fuck my old boots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"By hook or by crook" refers to the amount of fruit a commoner could legally obtain from his Lord's orchards by pulling down tree branches with the end of a bill-hook or shepherd's crook.

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over a year ago


"Money for old rope came from the days of hanging where they would sell the noose after the hanging to the highest bidder, hence money for old rope

WRONG lol

Prisoners were given the job of unravelling ships old damaged rope, and paid

Not quite, this job was performed by children in Alms Houses, Foundling Homes and Poor Houses. Prisons were extremely rare up until the social reforms of the mid 19th Century, anyone convicted of a Non Capital Crime would be given a sentence of lashes, be placed in "the stocks" or indentured and sent to the colonies (either North America or later to Australia).

Money for Old Rope is, truly, more firmly attached to the sale of the Hangman's Rope. Sorry............"

No its not cos it was on the telly lol

Between the devil and the deep blue sea;

The devil is the last planking of a ships lower deck, each being curved and difficult to access when fitting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Man who puts his cock in fireplace is fucking grate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gertcha cowson. "

Sorry I didn't put an explanation.

When the kids are swinging on the gate

Gertcha!

When the paperboy's half an hour late

Gertcha!

When the pigeons are pecking at his seed

Gertcha!

When the farmer starts digging up his s

Gertcha cowson.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A leopard cannot change its spots is found in the bible, it's the notion that an animal can't change its innate nature

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland


"When you forgot what you were going to say.....

"must have been a lie""

This is a modern thing not a true saying

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over a year ago


"There was an old one about two birds bushes in hand or something "

Outdated that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Saved by the bell

The way this came around was back in the day people were accidently buried alive so they made special coffins with a rope attached to a bell. And the night gourds would listen for bells at night obviously lol hence saved by the bell

Gaurds*"

guards

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

World war 2 pilots where given 9 yard chain ammunition. Therefore when he used all of his ammunition on one target he gave it "the whole 9 yards "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Saved by the bell

The way this came around was back in the day people were accidently buried alive so they made special coffins with a rope attached to a bell. And the night gourds would listen for bells at night obviously lol hence saved by the bell

Gaurds*

guards "

My phone is dyslexic sorry lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"World war 2 pilots where given 9 yard chain ammunition. Therefore when he used all of his ammunition on one target he gave it "the whole 9 yards ""

This is true, but originally the phrase came from the first world war as a Lewis Gun (the British Trench Machine Gun) had a belt of ammunition 9 Yards long.

"To Go Off Half Cocked"

No, this doesn't mean to leave a gang bang early.........The Brown Bess Musket was muzzle loaded and the Ball (and powder and wadding) was pushed down the barrel with a Ram Rod. Battlefields were terrifying places (despite the British Army being the only one which did Drill Training with Live ammunition, to simulate the noise and smoke of the battlefield) and often an infantryman would fire his musket without having removed the Ram Rod. This was called firing (or Going Off) Half Cocked.........

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

Off like a Damp Squib.. a squib is a small explosive charge when wet just fizzles not a bang

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Off like a Damp Squib.. a squib is a small explosive charge when wet just fizzles not a bang "

Never heard that saying before

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Off like a Damp Squib.. a squib is a small explosive charge when wet just fizzles not a bang

Never heard that saying before "

It's very common.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bob's Your Uncle"

There are a few origins for this one, the one I believe to be true is the appointment of Arthur Balfour to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland, which was a very prestigious position, by his Uncle, Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, in 1887 under a Conservative lead coalition Government.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


""Bob's Your Uncle"

There are a few origins for this one, the one I believe to be true is the appointment of Arthur Balfour to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland, which was a very prestigious position, by his Uncle, Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, in 1887 under a Conservative lead coalition Government. "

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

You can't have your cake and eat it, meaning you can't have it both ways.

An early recording of the phrase is in a letter on 14 March 1538 from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk to Thomas Cromwell, as "a man can not have his cake and eate his cake".

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