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Where have all those words and expressions gone ?

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

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

Dressed up to the nines
 
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
 
In the land of the blind
the one eyed man is king.
 
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.
 
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 .
 
Whoever says or thinks it ?
Its still a saying/expression - green with envy .

Following this thread topic .
Let you off.
 
Where there is muck there is brass .
My grandmother always used to say 'often' .
 
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 .....
 
If you don't eat all your dinner you can't have any pudding
 
Remember the eat all your carrots up .
Then you will see better in the dark .
My mother used to tell me and my brother .
 
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