Where have all those words and expressions gone ?

[poohtiggy]

All my eye (& Betty Martin)...what a load of rubbish

Get down to brass tacks....Get to the point

Dressed up to the nines

 

[catherinecherub]

Take that look off your face; you'll be laughing on the other side of your face.

laugh out of the other side of one's mouth, to undergo a chastening reversal, as of glee or satisfaction that is premature; be ultimately chagrined, punished, etc.; cry:
She's proud of her promotion, but she'll laugh out of the other side ofher mouth when the work piles up.
Also, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth /face.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/laugh+out+of+the+other+side+of+one's+mouth

 

[JTL]

Lord Muck

Lord Snot round here and there's lots of them too.
Huge gated estates with lodges and gate houses.

 

[JTL]

In the land of the blind
the one eyed man is king.

 

[anna29]

Lord Snot round here and there's lots of them too.
Huge gated estates with lodges and gate houses.

Green with envy - comes to mind

 

[JTL]

Green with envy - comes to mind

You'd be wrong though and It's not my saying ... it's the local saying.
I never give these people a second thought other than to admire the beauty of their splendid houses.

 

[anna29]

You'd be wrong though and It's not my saying ... it's the local saying.
I never give these people a second thought other than to admire the beauty of their splendid houses.

Whoever says or thinks it ?
Its still a saying/expression - green with envy .

Following this thread topic .

 

[JTL]

Whoever says or thinks it ?
Its still a saying/expression - green with envy .

Following this thread topic .

Let you off.

 

[Janiept]

For the girls - Keep your hand on your ha'penny

 

[anna29]

Where there is muck there is brass .
My grandmother always used to say 'often' .

 

[JTL]

Kilroy was here, wasn't he?


Oh thanks for the memories! Dread to think how many years since I've heard that, but I sang along to every word on youtube!

I'm going to sing it loudly as they take me away .....

 

[CollieBoy]

Followed a muck cart,
and thought it was a wedding!

 

[Pasha]

social disease [ old code for Syphilis ]

 

[daisy1]

Chip off the old block

 

[Pasha]

the apple of his eye

 

[Merrylizard1314]

Looking as though he's lost a pound and found a sixpence

 

[daisy1]

If you don't eat all your dinner you can't have any pudding

 

[anna29]

Remember the eat all your carrots up .
Then you will see better in the dark .
My mother used to tell me and my brother .

 

[anna29]

the apple of his eye

me and my dad (he has always had a soft spot for me )

 

[anna29]

Chip off the old block

My daughter and me