Silly Phrases
Published 1 year ago in My life.Does anyone use or know of any silly phrases or expressions? I love using - cool magool, and ok mate.
My dad loves saying silly phrases. He loves using these ones all the time. Up at sparrows fart, it’s so cold you could freeze the tit’s off a sparrow,it’s so hot you could fry an egg, and i got nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Please tell me the phrases and expressions you use.
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My father has many sayings that he got from his father
One he uses all the time is ” was the man on the lorry when he fell off?” and if you are looking for something he will say “it’s on the piano next to the scrubbing brush”.
My mum will always put my dad on the phone for a quick word whenever she rings and that word is invariably “wash-hand-basin”.
Dad’s dad was a funny chap - whenever somebody knocked on the door he would put his coat half on to answer it. If it was someone he liked he would say “I’ve just come home” and if it was someone he didn’t like he would say “I’m just on my way out”.
Two enduring phrases that have become regular family sayings came from two farm hands when my Dad was a boy in the 1930’s. They were apparently very dodgy characters of dubious origins and abilities and if anything went wrong on the farm ( usually to do with their incompetence) they would say “It wasn’t me it was the other fella” and “It never ran short of oil”.
lovely jubbley is one of daves sayings. if its good its good but if its better its lovely jubbley. and of course if its fizzy wine its lovely jubbley bubbley. or any combination. could be rhyming slang.
I always say Cool McCool too, he was a cartoon hero guy from the late sixties - but it MUST have had reruns because that was a bit before my time (okay - only a little bit!!). The kids have started saying it too - although I can see it won’t be much longer before anything I say is definitively uncool McCool!
One of the guys I used to work with in Perth always ended his presentation with “We’ve got a bit of time for questions but no time for answers”. The boys I hung out with at uni had an assortment that began with “off like a bride’s nightie” and went rapidly downhill from there!
I like Cockney rhyming slang… sauce = dead horse, look = butcher’s hook, shoes = rhythm ‘n’ blues, etc, but I can’t say I use it much myself.
There is a fairly good cockney translater here:
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/cockney-translator.asp
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
WOULDNT IT TWANG YA GARTERS.
WHEN OFFERING SOMETHING IN CONFIDENCE.
JUST BETWEEN YOU ME AND THE GATE POST.
WHEN SOMEONE WAS GUILTY OF COPYING IN ANY FORM.
I SPOSE IF I CUT MY THROAT, YOU WOULD CUT YOURS.
WHEN SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING CARELESSLY
HE’S LIKE A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
WHEN SOMEBODY IS CLUMSY
HES GOING AT THAT LIKE THE FIFTH WHEEL OF A COACH.
IF YOU WERE SOMEBODY THAT WAS AWKWARD IN A POSTURAL SENSE
HE’S A BLINKIN CART HORSE LOLLOPER.
THERE BE MANY, BUT I AM SURE OTHER NOOKSTERS CAN TELL THEM.
SHADOWMASTER.
Three from my long dead and much loved grandmother:
“Wish in one hand and wee in the other and see which one fills up first'’ - used to demonstrate the uselessness of idle wishes without action
“`Every little bit helps,’ said the man as he piddled in the ocean'’ - used when contributing a much smaller amount than had been hoped to the lollie-run collection
“`There’s no accounting for taste,’ said the woman as she kissed the cow'’ - used when introducing her to a new girlfriend, specially cooked dish or anything else that you were clearly fond of but failed to impress her.
She was a lovely, contancerous old woman. Jack the Dancer got her in the end.
“Not a partner you’d choose,'’ she said. “But he’s a pushy bugger, not one you can refuse.'’
“Well, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs”. Mild astonishment.
“Daft as a brush”. Not the full shilling.
“It’s looking a bit black over Will’s Mum’s”. Judging by the clouds, I would say it’s going to rain.
“If I don’t see you through the week I’ll see you through the window”. Friendly farewell.
“Put your face straight before the wind changes”. Stop pouting, child, or your face will remain like that.
I grew up with a lot of rhyming slang: apples (and pears) - stairs, frog (and toad) - road, bees (and honey) - money, boracic (lint) - skint {as in having no bees}, china (plate) - mate, and many others.