Personal sayings

Beth54 · Guru

RE: Personal sayings

Cruising Granny · Guru

Someone a little "slow" or with personality traits:-
The marbles aren't all in the same bag.

Cruising Granny · Guru

A egotist or big head who sings their own praises is a "legend in their lunchtime", or worse, "a legend in their lunch box".

When I "go potty" in the bush I carry my "dunny digger" and "take the rolls for a run".

-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Monday 19th of March 2012 10:37:21 AM

Rip and Rosie · Guru

SINK= single income no kids
DINK= double income no kids
SILD=single income little dog

APC wash = armpits and crutch
ABC = another bloody cathederal (from my days on a Contiki tour of Europe in the 1980''s)

"In a bottle on the roof" .... dad's answer to the "Where''s mum?" question.

"A wigwam for a goose's bridle".... mum''s answer to ""What's that?" or "What are you making?"

fireheart · Senior Member

Now there is a saying from when I was a little girl R&R "A wigwam for a gooes's bridle". My Nanna use to make fried scones and that is what she would call them and I can remember asking her for Wigwams. Yuck, could not think of anything worse these days. I am glad the cooking has evolved. Great postings.
We have a family saying and I tend to say it without thinking and then get some weird looks,

pissadeared, my eldest son use to say that when he was tiny and it has just stuck. I am sure he wishes at times it would disappear.

Sharon.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

One of my nephews used to call grasshoppers "harssgroppers" and butterflies were "flutterbys" which has stuck in the family now.
My little sister used to add an "L" to chimney and it became "chimley" and she still says it!

Which brings me to the elderly friend who always called eternity rings "maternity" rings..... made sense to her I suppose.

venus and hobie · Member

Just love all these sayings, they bring back a few memories of when we were young. My favourite is for when I have managed to finish something at last "There, set like a jelly" I said it to my little grand daughter last weekend after I managed to get three pigtails in her hair while she squirmed around......she asked me why I was always talking about jelly as I had also stated that doing the task was like "nailing jelly to a tree"!

Beth54 · Guru

My dear Mum had some funny ones. If we complained about something, she'd say, 'if you don't like it, grease your bum and slip into the next world!'

If we got hurt doing something we shouldn't have been doing, it was 'God's punishment!' My puritan m-i-l was horrified! These days I say 'that's karma!'

Cruising Granny · Guru

No explanation required:
"If brains were dynamite, they wouldn't have enough to blow their nose."

Travel Bug · Guru

My step dad had some great sayings....one of my favourites:

"Try as you might, you can't put a brain in a statue."

Very true!!

03_troopy · Guru

Used to call a bloke ankles.. cos he was 3 feet below an a'hole..

Cruising Granny · Guru

Someone who blows their own trumpet, like our current Prime Minister and sings their own praises is "An I specialist".

jonathan · Senior Member

Hmmm ..

" .. shush up you guys .. every time I open my mouth, some idiot speaks ! .."

03_troopy · Guru

Beth54 wrote:
This one's a bit unusual I think, haven't heard anyone else use it.
Ooshi! Or ooshi bada! ...get out of the way, move.
My family have been using it for decades without knowing where it came from or who started it.
When my youngest brother was travelling in Turkey he discovered it was a Turkish expression. We figured it must have come from the soldiers of WW1. Out great Uncle was one of them who survived, so maybe he brought it back.

Or maybe from the Turk and Afghan camel handlers as well. Ushtra is a Sanscrit word meaning camel, ushtra-sadi means camel rider and ushtra asana is a yoga pose meaning camel pose.

edit: I forgot to mention the most important bit... "oosh oosh" is what they say to a camel when they want to get it to kneel down, or maybe it's the bit before the command. Not sure about that really.

-- Edited by 03_troopy on Sunday 25th of March 2012 11:22:00 AM