Things you don't hear so much anymore

[Lilith7]

We've had a gutsfull of it.

[zqwerty]

A stitch in time saves nine.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

If you sup with the devil use a long handled spoon.

Waste not want not.

All's well that ends well.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

All that glitters is not gold.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Love conquers all.

[Lilith7]

Barking up the wrong tree.

Have to see a man about a dog.

Burning the candle at both ends.

[zqwerty]

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Man's best friend - a dog.

How many beans make five - two beans and a bean, a bean and a half and half a bean.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Get away with your bother.

Cheeky little monkey.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

[Lilith7]

It warms the cockles of your heart.

[Lilith7]

Read the riot act.

Paint the town red.

Crocodile tears.

[Lilith7]

Big Wig

The 'Rapture'.


Many hands make lighter work.

[Lilith7]

Making a big song & dance about it.

[zqwerty]

Any port in a storm.

The elephant in the room.

Choose your battles.

Tomorrow is a promise made to no man.

Youth is wasted on the young. (The young wear their freedom like cheap perfume)

Life gets in the way.

[Lilith7]

Too big for his/her britches.

Too clever by half.

[Lilith7]

'Lizard aliens'

[mickg]

Pinch punch 1st of the month,  I'm 81 wife 78 she usually beats me to it!

[zqwerty]

A dollar short and a day late.

The more that things change the more they stay the same.

[Lilith7]

Mealy mouthed

Hell for leather.

[Olive]

Not backward in coming forward  (usually applied to a confident female)

[Lilith7]

Once in a blue moon.

Drives me up the wall.

Chokka/ chockablock.

[Lilith7]

You can put a ring around that.

I don't care two hoots.

[Lilith7]

it's a dead loss.

Stop bellyaching.

Get cracking.

He's a bit browned off.

You wouldn't bloody well read about it.

To the best of my knowledge.

[Lilith7]

You don't know your arse from your elbow.
I'll have his guts for garters.

[zqwerty]

Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.

Couldn't organize a booze-up in a beer hall.

Slap with a wet bus ticket.