Things our parents used to say


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stephen my mum alez said face like pickle cabbage vinigarif you look a bit boared fed up or worried

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If anywhere, especially the house, was untidy, my Mum would say. it: 'Looked like Jackie Pownall's' (I believe Pownalls scrap yard was down by the old Vic baths?) Another variation was .'Looks like

My old mum, now passed, grew up in old St Anne's and knew hard times from being little until she met and married dad, one of her regular sayings was "If you can't afford it wi real money, you can

Tomlinson, In answer to your question #1387, I used to have some really good Tide Marks on my neck and running up my arms. The back of our house on Hardy's Drive, Gedling was a shared yard, I can'

DavidW, we'd say 'he'd skin a flea for a farthing'

Katy , that is the weirdest co-incidence .

We have our Dutch daughter-in-law staying for the weekend and whilst we were out having a coffee this morning , her sister texted from Holland to ask what the saying "skin a flea for a penny" meant . Must be inflation !

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A girl at work would often say "I'm not as green as I am cabbage looking " meaning she couldn't be fooled .

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Something my mother used to say (this was in Lincolnshire) was: 'He knows how many beans make five!' Meaning someone who couldn't be fooled, or knew what they were about.

As a child this used to puzzle me and I would ask her: 'Well, how many beans DO make five?' But she would never give me a straight answer.

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From my late Uncle George: "Two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks?"

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I expect that's one step up from 'a face like the back end of a tram smash'

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She's got a face like a bag o' spanners

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He's got a face like a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle !

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piggy always says youl be dangerous if you had a brain.

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