I've just put the well-known saying 'There's trouble just around the corner' to the test.

I just went out on our back and made a ninety degree turn to take me past our offshot-kitchen window and was met with no resistance by anyone or anything.

I took a pick axe handle with me as I did feel a little nervous, but eveything turned out OK. Thankfully.

Has anyone else got away with this?

'It'll end in tears'

tends not to be true either, granted it might end up with someone hurt, but everyone else will be laughing.

You'll have someone's eye out with that!

I have heard that said about everything from a duster to a stepladder! :confused:

K x

i once put a stitch in and saved nine, would you know of any one who could make use of them as im stuck with the damn things.........

When I was little, my mother used to warn me if I was misbehaving: "there'll be some fish flying around here."

I could never really understand this, but when I got older I realised that what she really used to say was 'there''ll be some FISTS flying around here'.

Much prefer the misheard version, though.

"Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves"

Not true.

I have a jar full of pennies in the kitchen, but thats all I've got, there is nothing in the bank.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

May well be true, but I think this is far more usefull advice...

"The bigger they are, the greater the chances of you taking a beating".

If the wind changes you'll stop like that.

This is untrue, believe me i've tried it. :banana:

"there'll be some fish flying around here."

I much prefer your version Sam - that's right up there with my sister's 2 favourites sayings :

1) The horse that broke the camel's back (bro in law with eyebrow raised : yup that'd it do it all right )

2) She was up there like a whippet up a drain pipe (bro in law : well we are in Yorkshire so I spose it's appropriate)

HA HA! Nice Sian!

Another one : my grandmother used to tell me that if you sit too close to the fire your blood turns to vinegar. I really used to believe that one.

My gran claims that sitting on a cold bench will give you piles and that picking your nose makes your head cave-in.

Originally posted by nick2
My gran claims that picking your nose makes your head cave-in.

Hehehehe. :lol: Love it.

One my mum used to say years ago was 'it'll happen as sure as eggs are eggs.'

Have you ever known an egg that wasn't an egg? :loopy:

An old babysitting favorite version of the earlier mentioned "It'll end in tears" is "someone's going to bang their head" which i say loudly to the children if they got a bit giddy. x

A friend of my Mom's explaining that she'd got confused, told me that 'she'd got the wrong end of the string' :D

K x

At the age of 38 I've yet to meet someone who has had their arm broken by a swan

My grandma always told me that if I swallowed chewing gum (Beechnut) it would wrap itself around my heart.

And I could never understand why it was always black over Bill's mother's.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
At the age of 38 I've yet to meet someone who has had their arm broken by a swan

LOL, and to quote from another thread, I am quite confident that I well over ten feet away from the nearest rat.

This is true, I swear, my boyfriends mum asked me if we had "Curtains 95" on our computer.

Bless.

You mean you haven't upgraded to Vertical Blinds XP?

What does this mean? :

You know which side your bread is buttered :confused:

"you've got a brass neck to say that"

I know what it means, but where did "brass neck" it come from ?

edit: I've just googled it

The Brass Neck
In Scotland, there is a phrase: "He has a brass neck." It means that someone has so much self-confidence that he is willing to stick his neck out. People with "brass necks" are capable of sticking their necks into places that are risky, places where they could get their heads chopped off.

"You mark my words"

Ok, write them down and I'll check them for grammar and spelling, giving marks out of ten, shall I?

"If you eat cabbage you will grow large breasts"

http://b1.1colony.com/tales.html

Googled old wives tales and thats what it came up with - Still not going to make me eat cabbage though!

From previous threads it seams Sheffield water does the same job!

my mum saya you can live in hope and die in hathersage??

If you eat cabbage you will grow large breasts

Not come across that one before :suspect:

Nor me.

The nearest one I can think to that one is about how eating carrots help you see in the dark.

And the other one:

'if you don''t get an elbow infection, you won't have to have time off work'.

Me neither, but I googled and there it was....

I suppose it's like eating crusts makes your hair curly?

I there are any kids reading this - it doesn't work!! (don't know about the cabbage one though!)

And there's the old classic about it always being in the last place you look.... tried and tested!

"Touching dandelions makes you wee."

"Eating sugar from the sugar bowl gives you worms."

"When the ice cream van is playing it's tune, it means that it's run out of ice cream."

Parents lie!

Funny thing is, I find myself saying the same things to my kids

Originally posted by LesMcQueen
"Touching dandelions makes you wee."

"Eating sugar from the sugar bowl gives you worms."

"When the ice cream van is playing it's tune, it means that it's run out of ice cream."

Parents lie!

Funny thing is, I find myself saying the same things to my kids

That's a bit like phoning the Naughty Police or Father Christmas up to scare your kids into behaving.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
That's a bit like phoning the Naughty Police or Father Christmas up to scare your kids into behaving.

My dad used to threaten to leave the cellar door open all night if we didn't behave, he never said what was down there but we didn't want it roaming the house whatever it was.

Originally posted by Pauly
One my mum used to say years ago was 'it'll happen as sure as eggs are eggs.'

Have you ever known an egg that wasn't an egg? :loopy:

My mum says 'sure as eggs is eggs'. It's kind of the point, though, isn't it? You've never heard of an egg that wasn't an egg, so you can be sure that an egg is, in fact, an egg. It's a sure thing.

When I was little, if my grandma was baking and I asked her what she was making she would say: "shim-shams for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks".

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
When I was little, if my grandma was baking and I asked her what she was making she would say: "shim-shams for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks".

If i asked my nan what we were having for tea she would say "Iccy with his eye cut"!!!!!!!!!!

I don't no who Iccy is or how he cut his eye but i never used to question it! :loopy:

I remember the first time my Grandma used the phrase "spend a penny". As a child of about 6, I took that quite literally (especially as we were outside a sweet shop at the time!), and was very confused when we went off to the loo in M&S, when I didn't need to go!

Arn't grans brilliant ?
Mine still confuses the hell out of me, and makes me laugh to the point where I can't breath, without even telling a joke.

Originally posted by nick2
My dad used to threaten to leave the cellar door open all night if we didn't behave, he never said what was down there but we didn't want it roaming the house whatever it was.

I've just asked my Mom if she used to say this to me. Apparrently not; however, as an adult man of 30, I am still too frightened to go in my own cellar if it is after dark. :blush:

My Mom also used to tell me that if I slept on my back, I would have nightmares. I was about 15 when I realised this wasn't true (you believe the things your parents tell you!).

When I asked my Mom why she told me that, she looked thoughtful and said "I don't know. Your Grandma told me that". I hope that she had worked out before that minute that it wasn't true, 'cos she's 59!

K x