Sayings.....Rural/Regional even Funny!

sandydan

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

It wasn't the touching variety so?

no i guess that would be "worded " slightly differently, now i wonder what you were refferring to in touching variety :pac::pac: naw it couldn't possibley be :P,

foxy farmer

Snow-the poor man's fertiliser.

whisky_galore

'He's tough out.' - usually referring to someone who doesn't have much to say for themselves.

sandydan

whisky_galore wrote: »

'He's tough out.' - usually referring to someone who doesn't have much to say for themselves.

think around here anyway it means fella who doesn't get exited to easily.

Qualitymark

13spanner wrote: »

The original and best...''How's she cuttin'?''

And the reply: "She's trimmin' well." (It's a saying from sailing, both question and reply.)

kboc wrote: »

he is as lazy as shugh water

from the oak leaf county

How do you pronounce 'shugh' in that? And what's the oak leaf county?

Not casting your clout till may is out means not taking off extra clothes until the may blossom (hawthorn) is showing, when the weather is unlikely to turn cold again.

Shy but willing, like an ass to a thistle (nice if you've ever seen a donkey eating thistles, with ears laid back, lips drawn back over teeth and eyes shut, and an ecstatic expression.)

Telling lies as fast as a horse would trot (whispered to me by a friend at a funeral, of the priest who was going on about the virtues of the deceased).

Reggie.

"He lost a good bit of timber"


A fella that lost a bit of weight

Muckit

What. .. off the top of his lad?

rangler1

Qualitymark wrote: »

And the reply: "She's trimmin' well." (It's a saying from sailing, both question and reply.)
How do you pronounce 'shugh' in that? And what's the oak leaf county?
Not casting your clout till may is out means not taking off extra clothes until the may blossom (hawthorn) is showing, when the weather is unlikely to turn cold again.
Shy but willing, like an ass to a thistle (nice if you've ever seen a donkey eating thistles, with ears laid back, lips drawn back over teeth and eyes shut, and an ecstatic expression.)
Telling lies as fast as a horse would trot (whispered to me by a friend at a funeral, of the priest who was going on about the virtues of the deceased).[/QUOTE]


''If you want blame, marry and if you want praise, die''

Miname

rangler1 wrote: »

Qualitymark wrote: »

And the reply: "She's trimmin' well." (It's a saying from sailing, both question and reply.)
How do you pronounce 'shugh' in that? And what's the oak leaf county?
Not casting your clout till may is out means not taking off extra clothes until the may blossom (hawthorn) is showing, when the weather is unlikely to turn cold again.
Shy but willing, like an ass to a thistle (nice if you've ever seen a donkey eating thistles, with ears laid back, lips drawn back over teeth and eyes shut, and an ecstatic expression.)
Telling lies as fast as a horse would trot (whispered to me by a friend at a funeral, of the priest who was going on about the virtues of the deceased).[/QUOTE]
sorry about this rangler but i cant help it, but would "please sir, can i've some more" not be more apt.

''If you want blame, marry and if you want praise, die''

kowtow

Qualitymark wrote: »

And the reply: "She's trimmin' well." (It's a saying from sailing, both question and reply.)

Not casting your clout till may is out means not taking off extra clothes until the may blossom (hawthorn) is showing, when the weather is unlikely to turn cold again.

As far as I recall the English derivation is "ne'er cast a clod"... ie. a clod of earth - meaning don't plant frost sensitive crops until May blossom is out.. nothing to do with clothing.

Qualitymark

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/clout

Oxford English Dictionary wrote:

ne'er cast a clout till May be out
1
proverb Do not discard your winter clothes until summer has fully arrived.
(with reference either to the month of May or to the blossom of the may or hawthorn, which blooms in May)

kowtow

Qualitymark wrote: »

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/clout

I just re-read all the bits I can find and on reflection I think you are absolutely right.

Whichever bullying English master made a lesson of that for us wasted our time.

The 1732 original is actually ""Leave not off a Clout Till May be out." which hardly allows for the possibility of digging the garden!

sandydan

wonder where this one came from about laziness,
sure he wouldn't rise off a thistle if he sat on it

Qualitymark

whisky_galore wrote: »

'He's tough out.' - usually referring to someone who doesn't have much to say for themselves.

Which calls up a couple more: "He suffers from his nerves" - raging alcoholic who's about to reef your hair out and bottle you; "He's his own worst enemy" - he'd start a fight in a barracks; "He has an unfortunate manner" - think Father Jack.

kowtow wrote: »

Whichever bullying English master made a lesson of that for us wasted our time.

There are many of them.

What about "If he et a nail he'd shíte a screw", of someone who's "as crooked as a ram's horn".

farmersfriend

My granny used to say if someone did vexed her..that his hole may fester..

Bullocks

farmersfriend wrote: »

My granny used to say if someone did vexed her..that his hole may fester..

The granfather had that one aswell and a couple more "that he may die ****ting razor blades " and " that he may die roaring for a doctor "

Zoo4m8

farmersfriend wrote: »

My granny used to say if someone did vexed her..that his hole may fester..

Reminds me of one I haven't heard for ages, " May your balls turn square and fester at the edges" !

Reggie.

Bullocks wrote: »

The granfather had that one aswell and a couple more "that he may die ****ting razor blades " and " that he may die roaring for a doctor "

Or die roaring for a priest

whisky_galore

Die roaring like Horan's bull.

Qualitymark

Friend with an eccentric sister married to a controlling man, raised her eyes to heaven and said, "As He made them He matched them"!

Nekarsulm

Qualitymark wrote: »

Friend with an eccentric sister married to a controlling man, raised her eyes to heaven and said, "As He made them He matched them"!

"There's a shoe for every foot"

whisky_galore

Nekarsulm wrote: »

"There's a shoe for every foot"

Said of two eccentrics that get hitched: 'for every odd shoe there's a odd sock'

coolshannagh28

Of an unlikely young lad thats started courting " Its a bad pig that wont hoke"

O.A.P

If work was in bed he would sleep on the floor. (Lazy worker)

Reggie.

O.A.P wrote: »

If work was in bed he would sleep on the floor. (Lazy worker)

He wouldn't work with batteries

O.A.P

I remember my grandfather saying " it don't look great when ye take off the jackets to eat but put them back on to work" on a cold October day picking spuds, when we came in for dinner.

whisky_galore

Said of Ford's factory workers in Cork, a lot of pilfering of car parts went on allegedly:

'If you gave him a push..' or ' if you gave him a kick up the a*rse, he'd start.'

Muckit

I got a queer look off the missus this morning when I asked was 'the tae wet?'

It sounds silly now that I think of it but we always say it at home.

zetecescort

Saidd the father after one of the silage crew knocked a pier, "he shouldn't be left drive nails never mind a feckin tractor!"

El_Duderino 09

Muckit wrote: »

I got a queer look off the missus this morning when I asked was 'the tae wet?'

It sounds silly now that I think of it but we always say it at home.

Aaahhh like wet the tea leaves? That makes sense all of a sudden. I've heard ones about wetting the tea and it never made sense