Quote from: Vanilla-Jackie on April 20, 2016, 04:33:02 AM
All those old comedies were great in our day, they even bring some of those back as repeats, including Rising Damp with Leonard Rossiter....

I my have posted this Idiom before but, it has to be one of favourites as to remembering my late father....

" I will love you and leave you...."

Always said on parting as if anything ever happened to one of us, at least I knew my father " loved me..." just wished I had returned it back to him, too late now......

I agree Jackie, Rising Damp was brilliant, can't beat the old ones 

Hi Rammel
Pin Money

The saying was used to say we had extra earnings from usually a part time job


Kelly

Hi Rammel
I think your programme Sanford and Son was a spin off from the UK's Steptoe and Son.

Kelly

Hi Rammel
Burning The Midnight Oil

When you stay up late ( like I do) or study late, again like I did when I went back to College in my fifties.

The saying was expressed by Francis Quarles (1592-1644).

And it was probably because an earlier quote which  was, something was supposed to be 'smell of the oil', it is bore the marks of labourios study, by working or studying late into the night by the light of an oil lamp.

Kelly

isn't there one about burning both sides of the candle?

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Quote from: so_P_bubble on April 20, 2016, 08:11:50 AM
isn't there one about burning both sides of the candle?

He/she is burning their candle at both ends.

Back later to verify and post new additions. Busy now. I'm on pins and needles now waiting for a delivery.

Yes!  We were recommended not to do that when  we were in College. 

A saying my father would say that I still use today is....." what do you think I was born yesterday?...." said when you are trying to pull the wool over someones eyes, or trying to fool or trick them.....they are basically telling you, " do you think I am stupid..."

Hi Rammel
Jump on the Bandwagon

To back an idea usually got monetary gain.

Linked to political electioneering campaign, as it sometimes has been said it is like a circus!

Kelly

Added -
818 - Pin Money
819 - on pins and needles
820 - Over the hill
821 - Cool as a cucumber.
822 - Jump on the Bandwagon


Already on list -
#255 - " I will love you and leave you...."
#724 - Burning The Midnight Oil
#736 - He/she is burning their candle at both ends.
#432 - If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
#119 - do you think I was born yesterday?

Hi Rammel

Thank you

Kelly

I love the "Cool as a cucumber." So true! My grandfather used to love peeling and eating fresh cucumbers.  In summer he was picking some of the peels and sticking them to his forehead and nap. He used to say it was so refreshing, better than a fan.

Don't like cucumber, they make soggy sandwiches

Kelly

The English ones maybe.  Here they are crispy and almost invisible seeds.

Hi Rammel
Grasp the Nettle

Do something with determination, make your mind up about something and get on with it.

It was used as far back as the 1740's and it is still used today.

Kelly

" The clock is ticking...."

Meaning, hurry up and make your mind up, time is slipping away...

Good words are food, bad words poison

Hi Everyone
As I worked for myself this saying so important to me

The customer is always right

Be it a sole trader like me or a large company, it has to be a policy to put the customer first.

Where did it originate from.

In America companies like Marshall fields, Macy's and Selfridges in the UK.  It is thought Mr Field or Mr Selfridge coined the saying, but it is not know who it was1

kelly

I thought of this one on the way out of work today.  We're in the middle of farm country here and I first heard this one from my father when I was about 6 0r 7 .  If one is limping...

"She has a hitch in her git-along."

I was limping due to a childhood accident and he said it to me.

823 - Grasp the Nettle
824 - "The clock is ticking...."
825 - Good words are food, bad words poison
826 - The customer is always right
827 - "She has a hitch in her git-along."

Jane, your dad had some great way of expressing himself.
My dad used to say: 'suddenly there is a smell of violets... ' when one was boasting

Think If I remember rightly, both my mom and gran often told me this.....

" Cleanliness is next to Godliness..."

A message on keeping myself clean, even down to cleaning behind the ears....

Hi Rammel

Pleased as Punch

Meaning, very happy and pleased with oneself.

This is a saying I heard many times at work or in conversation.

Origin, from the the Punch and Judy shows of years gone by.

Kelly

828 - A fly in the ointment.
829 - The best thing to come along since sliced bread.


796 - Pleased as Punch
383 - Cleanliness is next to Godliness

When someone has a little too much to drink he's

Higher than a kite!

830 - Go fly a kite

615 - High as a kite

Hi Rammel
Put wool over other people's eyes

To deceive someone into thinking well of them.

kelly

246 - Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes.

When we pestered our father when we were little he used to say,

Why don't you go play in traffic?

Of course, since we lived on one of the quietest streets in town, our answer was usually, "There isn't any!"