Very odd sayings.

[Kate!]

Very odd sayings numbers 1 to 5.

1 As giddy as a kipper. :shrug:
2 I'll go to the foot of the stairs.
3 put that in your pipe and smoke it! :pipe:
4 as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
5 never let a dog lick your face when it's just licked its balls. :eek:

[Black Dagger]

Chocolate fireguard is a great saying, my Grandad always said that to me :tongue:

[King Gizzard]

Only heard of no.3

[Kizzy]

1-4 are good old yorkshire sayings ...number 5 is just common sense haha!

[GypsyGoth]

I heard of 2 & 3

[Shaun]

I always think "I want to drink your tears" is a bit weird but Zee keeps texting it to me :/ must be a new German craze

[Jords]

Number 5 just seems like something you naturally wouldnt want to happen... LOL

[Kate!]

Come on now chaps and chapettes, someone do numbers 6 to 10 :D

[Kate!]

Number 5 just seems like something you naturally wouldnt want to happen... LOL

:joker: yes I could only think of 4 so I made that one up.

[Kizzy]

where theres muck theres brass
you make a better door than a window..
were you born in a field?...
I'm spitting feathers
daft as a brush

[Mrluvaluva]

Well no. 4 makes sense too.

As much use as a chocolate fireguard or a chocolate teapot.

[King Gizzard]

Too many cooks spoil the broth...well..I would say the more cooks the more the chance the broth will be amazing with so much effort put into it

[MTVN]

Too many cooks spoil the broth...well..I would say the more cooks the more the chance the broth will be amazing with so much effort put into it

Nonsense

[King Gizzard]

You watch your mouth

[Shaun]

Suppose you have such a great knowledge of cookery don't you MTVN :rolleyes:

[Omah]

You're not as green as you're cabbage-looking .....

I'll go to the back of our house .....

You're standing there like cheese at fourpence .....

:pipe:

[sooty]

You can't have a cake and eat it too.

[Josy]

Nonsense

You watch your mouth

Suppose you have such a great knowledge of cookery don't you MTVN :rolleyes:

:joker::joker::joker:

[Black Dagger]

I'd let MTVN cook me dinner :pipe:

[Smithy]

Thats the pot calling the kettle black

[GiRTh]

As mad as a spoon.

[Josy]

Don't come running to me when you fall and break your legs.
A little pain never hurt anyone.
Cute as a button.
Blind as a bat.
If the wind changes your face will stick like that.
Whats for you wont go past you.
In for a penny in for a pound

And this one

Not really odd as such but I say it all the time for lots of different reasons:

Like a rat up a drainpipe.

[Jesus.]

"If you don't stop following me, I'll call the police."

That's a saying that I hear all the time.

[sooty]

Cool as a cucumber.

[Omah]

Red Herring

[Maia]

All that and a bag of crisps

[Maia]

"If you don't stop following me, I'll call the police."

That's a saying that I hear all the time.

:joker:

[InOne]

"And Bob's your uncle" No he's not.

[Josy]

"And Bob's your uncle" No he's not.

:joker:

[Josy]

There was one Locke posted before something about a fishcake, I had never heard it.

[InOne]

Fancy a fishcake

[Josy]

Fancy a fishcake

Yeah I think that was it

[sooty]

Dutch courage
Double Dutch

[Marc]

Dull as dishwater. What.

[Marc]

Also no.5... You wouldn't want that anyway

[GiRTh]

Dull as dishwater. What.Ditchwater not dishwater. Still a silly saying though.

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

[Livia]

My grandmother - and consequently my mother - has a saying that I've never heard anywhere else. As an exclamation of shock or surprise she says "Gawd blind old pole". I don't know if it's a London thing, a Jewish thing or what. I've tried Googling it. Anyone ever heard that before?

[sooty]

(Livia, I do not think I have heard it before. Any one?)

Goes around comes around

[Kizzy]

as mad as a box of frogs

[sooty]

Pretty as a picture

[Kizzy]

sick as a parrot

[sooty]

Tomorrow never comes

[Kate!]

One chocolate short of a box

One sandwich short of a picnic

[Kate!]

Oh and I think Locke's was feel like a fishcake?

[sooty]

mad as a hatter

[Livia]

mad as a hatter

Milliners used to use mercury to bind felt and it got into their system giving them mercury poisoning.

[sooty]

Milliners used to use mercury to bind felt and it got into their system giving them mercury poisoning.

I just remembered -
Didn't BB10 Freddie talk about "mad as a hatter" to Marcus during their midnight conversations? (I am not sure)
(I miss BB's live feed.)

[sooty]

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

[fruit_cake]

'out of the blue'

where is the blue? absolute madness :bored:

[fruit_cake]

'out of the blue'

where is the blue? absolute madness :bored: