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Once our Everyday Sayings

Try and re-call some of our everyday sayings and I`ll bet you are toiling. Carrying on a conversation and sure enough one of them will come out. Well here is a list that I hope can be added to if you send them onto me by way of the appended box as they spring to mind.

ExamplesMeaningSubmitted by

---`like the coo`s tail` always last J Stewart

---`a rear like a hoose end` a bit weighty at the buttocks ,,

---`gets up ma nose` annoys me ,,

---`nae show withoot punch` sarcastic ref about someones absence ,,

---`a face like fizz` very serious looking ,,

---`sair nose like a dug` feeling ignored ,,

---`chin scrapin` the flair` feeling very dejected ,,

---`ticklin` yin`s fancy` have a longing for ,,

---`take a runnin` jump` don`t bother me ,,

---`take a long walk on a short pier` go and lose yourself ,,

---`gie`s me the humph` makes me feel sick ,,

---`makes a meal o`it` overdoes things ,,

---`cat goat yer tongue?` not saying anything? ,,

---`away an` bile yer heid` stop speaking nonsense ,,

---`my palms itching` I`m awfy tempted ,,

---`by the skin o` yer nose` you`ve jist made it ,,

---`yer eyes are worse tae

please than yer belly think ye like it but you don`t ,,

---`only a face a mither could love` ugly ,,

---`a heid like a stair heid` a throbbing headache A Sandie

---`yer bums oot the windae` you`ve got no chance ,,

---`legs ye could drive a bus through` very bandy legged ,,

---`stoatin doon the road` walking when inebriated ,,

---`stop making that face,

if the wind changes you’ll self explanatory B McPhillips

stay like that.`

---`eat your carrots or you’ll no see ,, ,,

the bus coming oer the hill in the

morning.`

---`look at that yin in fur coat an nae jist for show ,,

drawers an she’s goat a bun in the

oven as well.`

---`you’ll be standing there till the

cows come hame.` you`re wasting your time ,,

---`how auld are ye granny? As

auld as ma gums and a bit

aulder than ma teeth. the perfect answer ,,

---`ye cannae see green cheese

but yer e'en reels` you`d eat anything J Newlands

---` ye d speir the e**e oot a

wheelbarry` you ask too many questions Elayne ?

---` yer fu o wind and p**h` you talk rubbish ,,

---`yer as useful as a back pocket

in a shroud` self explanatory ,,

---`yev a pus like a well skelt e**e` you are ugly ,,

---`gaw canny` be careful, dinnae overdo it J Stewart

---`as near as dammit is to swearin` that close B McPhillips

---` dae ye think a came doon in the

last shower?` am no that stupid ,,

---`nae use greetin our spilt milk` its done, so forget it ,,

---`up yer kilt, your mithers a mermaid` anyone know the meaning? A Wallace