Quote from: so_P_bubble on April 18, 2016, 02:28:38 AM
alligators... typo, I remember because they have 2 jaws!

Alligator, shmalligator. ---------- The dogg has two jaws too      

My sister and I were Mall shopping one day many years ago and she said let's find some place to sit down because....

"I feel like I've worn my feet off and I'm walking around on the bloody stumps."

I know this is a bit gross and I won't be offended if you just ignore it but I couldn't stop laughing when she said it and I've thought it to myself many times since. 

808 - In The Twinkling (blink, wink) of an Eye
809 - To err is human. To forgive Divine!
810 - "Quick as a wink"
811 - Wide of the Mark

Quote from: JaneS on April 18, 2016, 10:25:16 PM
My sister and I were Mall shopping one day many years ago and she said let's find some place to sit down because....

"I feel like I've worn my feet off and I'm walking around on the bloody stumps."

I know this is a bit gross and I won't be offended if you just ignore it but I couldn't stop laughing when she said it and I've thought it to myself many times since.

Not ignored, but I don't think it "fits the bill" for the list.

812 - "fits the bill"
813 - Let no good deed go unpunished.

Thanks Rammel

Kelly

How about...

You can get more bees with honey than you can with vinegar.

Or...

A pat on the the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

Both mean the same thing.  Be nice and people will help you with your project.

similar to
717 - You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

Hi Rammel
Pay Through The Nose

Be charged too much, excessive charge.

It is a saying still used today.

Kelly

it costs an eye!

Over here...

It costs an arm and a leg! 

(I don't know which is worse)

814 - Pay Through The Nose
815 - A pat on the the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants,
             is miles ahead in results.

#563 - it costs an eye (Arm and a leg)

Talking of body parts.....and not something ever said to me by any of my parents or relations but, I always wonder about the term when someone in the theatre to someone who is about to go on stage is, " break a leg " rather than wish them " good luck...."   

Hi Jackie,  I always heard that in the theater, it's BAD luck to wish someone GOOD luck so they say "Break a leg" instead.

The one I love that I heard on a British comedy show...I forget the name of it but it took place in a department store, was...

Don't get your knickers in a twist.

I know what knickers are and I always got a chuckle out of that one when the older lady said it.

Just remembered the name of the show "ARE YOU BEING SERVED"

That was a saying that Gladys too used ! lol

Mrs.Slocomb .... lol

Funny comedy with John Inman as Mr Humphries.....

They used to show it on Public Broadcasting over here and I never missed it.  Now, where are we?

49 - "Don't get your knickers in a twist"  (from right here on S&F)

"ARE YOU BEING SERVED", Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, Fawlty(sp) Towers. --- I liked them all. A different type of humor than what we usually get around here.

Hi Rammel
how about

Steptoe and Son

Kelly

Hi Rammel
Money for old rope

getting a profitable return for little effort.

Looked to see the origin of the saying, this is what I found

Money for old rope' is most likely to have originated in a similar manner to 'money for jam'. This was a British Army expression from around WWI. The reference is to the ubiquity of jam in the soldiers' diet and that it had little value. 'Old rope' had the same status. 'Money for old rope' just means 'easy money'.

kelly

I watched them all, too, Rammel.  Loved them!

How about ...

"Buying a pig in a poke."

Meaning to buy something sight unseen a poke being a bag.

Quote from: Kelly on April 19, 2016, 08:08:59 PM
Hi Rammel
how about

Steptoe and Son

Kelly

Never heard it. What does it mean?

816 - Don't get your nose out of joint.
817 - Money for old rope


#106 - "Buying a pig in a poke."

Hi Rammel
You were talking about UK comedies.

Like Steptoe and Son

Kelly

Quote from: Kelly on April 19, 2016, 09:19:57 PM
Hi Rammel
You were talking about UK comedies.

Like Steptoe and Son

Kelly

OK,   I got it now. It presented as an entry here so I misunderstood it's meaning.  I hadn't heard of "Steptoe and Son" as a show. Maybe just not presented here.

Quote from: RAMMEL on April 19, 2016, 07:37:03 PM

"ARE YOU BEING SERVED", Fawlty(sp) Towers. --- I liked them all. A different type of humor than what we usually get around here.

We had these too here in Israel. It was fun.  I miss that kind of light comedy.

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......