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RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Olive - 15-01-2024
(15-01-2024, 11:37 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Living in sin
Mixed flatting
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Oh_hunnihunni - 15-01-2024
Fancy man and loose woman, lol...
Some changes are good ones!
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-01-2024
(15-01-2024, 11:37 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Living in sin
Which reminded me - 'she got herself pregnant!'
No better than she should be.
He's a bit of a lad.
Sowing his wild oats.
Mad as a hatter.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Oh_hunnihunni - 15-01-2024
That mad as a hatter one came about because hatters used and ingested mercury when making felt.
These days we should say mad as a Japanese dolphin fisher. Same reason
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-01-2024
(15-01-2024, 04:52 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: That mad as a hatter one came about because hatters used and ingested mercury when making felt.
These days we should say mad as a Japanese dolphin fisher. Same reason
Yeah, I read a bit about that somewhere. Then again, maybe dogs are right & humans are nuts..
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 15-01-2024
Lift doesn't go to the top floor.
Playing without a full deck of cards.
I wouldn't pee on them even if they were on fire.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 16-01-2024
Talking nineteen to the dozen.
About as many brains as a hen could hold in its shut fist.
Never in a month of Saturdays/Sundays.
As slow as a wet week.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 20-01-2024
Intelligent design.
Fresh as a daisy.
Put the wood in the hole (close the door)
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 20-01-2024
Worn to a frazzle.
Sick as a parrot.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 21-01-2024
The short end of the stick.
Swinging the lead.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 23-01-2024
Half pie - haven't heard that one for decades!
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Olive - 23-01-2024
As far as I know it's "half pai", meaning half of "ka pai', meaning good in te reo. I still say it from time to time when someone has botched a job or not made enough effort to get something right.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 24-01-2024
(23-01-2024, 08:10 PM)Olive Wrote: As far as I know it's "half pai", meaning half of "ka pai', meaning good in te reo. I still say it from time to time when someone has botched a job or not made enough effort to get something right.
That would make sense - half pai, rather han half pie.
As mad as a cut snake.
As mad as a wet hen.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - harm_less - 24-01-2024
Running around like a chook with its head cut off
Running around like a mad woman's fart
(i.e. totally disorganised)
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 24-01-2024
Fizzing at the bung.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 24-01-2024
Were you born in a tent?! (If someone left the door open.)
Beyond the black stump.
Up the booeye/ai.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 24-01-2024
as useful as tits on a bull
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 25-01-2024
A pound to a penny.
Don't get up in the air.
Don't get your back up.
As quick as a rat up a drainpipe.
About as much use as a chocolate teapot.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 25-01-2024
Your beard makes you look like a rat up a drainpipe.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Going at it hell for leather.
Running around like a chook with its head cut off.
Dragged from pillar to post.
Ants in their pants.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 26-01-2024
(25-01-2024, 11:06 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Your beard makes you look like a rat up a drainpipe.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Going at it hell for leather.
Running around like a chook with its head cut off.
Dragged from pillar to post.
Ants in their pants.
Haven't heard some of those for years, had forgotten most.
Then he/she turned around & said...
Make do & mend.
Waste not, want not.