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RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 05-04-2024
(04-04-2024, 11:24 PM)joe 90 Wrote:(11-01-2024, 10:35 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: I was thinking about these earlier & managed to remember some, add some if you think of any.in like a robbers dog like a rat up a drainpipe , rat bag well blow me down , bugger me days , stinks to high heaven , like a fish out of water from the horses mouth stone the crows -----
I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
He's just the bees knees.
He thinks he's just the cat's pyjamas.
She's a box of birds.
When our ship/boat comes in.
More of those chem trails today.
In like Flynn.
She's a Bobby dazzler.
As full as a bull/boot/the family po.
I'm full of beans.
His nibs.
I'll be there in a tick/two ticks.
She's/he's as fit as a fiddle.
So & so said.
A sky as black as the ace of spades/your hat.
He's as cool as a cucumber.
Feeling a bit browned off.
I'm as free from money as a frog is from feathers. (My Gran)
I remember all those, remembered one more:
You wouldn't bloody well read about it!
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 05-04-2024
I thought it was "bugger me daze"
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 05-04-2024
(05-04-2024, 11:31 AM)zqwerty Wrote: I thought it was "bugger me daze"
That sounds about right...
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 05-04-2024
Full as the family po.
Drunk as 40 cats.
He was a bit shickered.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 06-04-2024
It's enough to make a cat laugh.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 07-04-2024
What a so and so he was.
Be careful what you say or I'll knock your block off.
Bigger they are the harder they fall.
Slow and sure wins the race.
Softly softly catche monkey.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 07-04-2024
Put the wood in the hole (shut the door).
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 11-04-2024
If I were you I would think twice about that.
Don't let it go to your head.
His eyes were bigger than his stomach.
Living beyond their means.
Life is a bowl of cherries.
Living for the day.
Carpe Diem - "Seize the day"
“Si Ye Pambili” (Let us go Forward) [My old school motto in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe, Matabele language: The Matebele people of Zimbabwe descend from followers of the Zulu leader Mzilikazi (one of Zulu King Shaka's generals), who left the Zulu Kingdom in the early 19th century, during the Mfecane, arriving in present-day Zimbabwe in 1839] Once upon a time I used to hear this everyday.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 11-04-2024
Bob's your uncle.
Uncle Tom Cobley & all.
He was three sheets to the wind.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 12-04-2024
Here today, gone tomorrow.
My favourite stompin' ground.
Apples never fall far from the tree.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 13-04-2024
Well then, more fool him.
He put one over him. (Being ripped off)
It's just one of those things.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-04-2024
Just sing out if you need a hand.
In my book...
A pound to a penny.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 16-04-2024
Stop bellyaching about it.
There are no two ways about it.
As sure as eggs.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 16-04-2024
"Ooh my gaawd - what's come amongst us!"
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 22-04-2024
It wouldn't makea blind bit of difference.
He's had a rough trot.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 27-04-2024
He pulled a swifty.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 27-04-2024
You can put a ring around it.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 27-04-2024
You could have knocked me down with a feather.
Well, blow me down.
Bugger that.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 28-04-2024
My bloody oath.
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 28-04-2024
She made a pig's ear of it.