Old Sayings and Quips From our past

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we have it as well   

[so_P_bubble]

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
Back to square one

Basically back to where we started on something after wasting time.

Kelly

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
Balloon goes up

Usually when actions starts after trouble begins.

It dates back to the First World War when observation balloons went up.

Kelly

[JaneS]

How about...

Skinny as a rail
and...
Smart as a whip

[JaneS]

Up the creek without a paddle!  (meaning impossible situation)

[RAMMEL]

Rammel, I put 750a - Hook, line, and sinker for this one, unless you want to put it as 754?
Please advise, so we keep the same list

Hook, line, and sinker for this one, unless you want to put it as is now 754

Looks like I've got too many irons in the fire.

[RAMMEL]

755 - Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear
756 - Only in the darkness can you see the stars
757 - Back to square one
758 - Balloon goes up
759 - Skinny as a rail
760 - Smart as a whip

#198 Up the creek without a paddle

[Jaywalker]

sharp as a tack

[RAMMEL]

761 - Sharp as a tack
762 - There's no accounting for taste.

[so_P_bubble]

Fish always stinks from the head downwards

[JaneS]

That did the trick.
or
...carried it too far.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
Make a long story short


Come to the point - leave out details

Kelly

[JaneS]

My dad used to measure time until something was going to happen by saying...

...Only 2 more days and a gitup!  (He figured you don't count the day of the happening because all you do is "git up" and it happens.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
To hear something straight from the horse's mouth


Usually meant to To hear something from the authoritative source.

kelly

[RAMMEL]

763 - Seeing eye to eye.
764 - Fish always stinks from the head downwards
765 - That did the trick.
766 - Make a long story short
767 - Only 2 more days and a gitup!
768 - straight from the horse's mouth
769 - Sounds like a fish story

carried it too far - too much like common talk

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
Thanks

kelly

[RAMMEL]

770 - something up his sleeve

[JaneS]

Enough to curl your hair (means kind of scary)

[RAMMEL]

771 - Enough to curl your hair

[so_P_bubble]

Clip one's wings

[so_P_bubble]

General discussion is close, so no posting and there is no indication where one can post requests.
I would love to see the Daily Quote or Saying revived. It gave food for thinking.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
On The Slate

It has many meanings, but is like a bar bill, you buy drinks and out it  the bill when you order drinks and pay at the end of the night.

Also at your local shop, if your cash runs out midweek you ask the shopkeeper to put what you buy on the 'slate' until Friday when you get paid.

Kelly

[JaneS]

Over here in the "states" we put it

On the cuff

[JaneS]

I think that saying came from the old days when the shopkeeper actually wrote it on the cuff of his shirt.

[Kelly]

Hi JaneS
Never heard On The Cuff, heard On the Slate many times over the past 50 years.

Kelly

[RAMMEL]

Adding -
Clip one's wings
On The Slate / Tab / cuff

On The Slate / Tab / cuff  is an interesting statement. Obviously different in different places.
Around here "On the tab" would indicate it were to be paid for later. On the cuff might indicate it was beilg tallied but might vanish later (sort of a hidden thing). "On the slate" not used much around here but might indicate as "On the tab", but also might be a list of things to be done.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
Thanks

kelly

[RAMMEL]

774 - Worth as much as a wooden nickle.
775 - It comes with the territory.

[Kelly]

Hi Rammel
A miss Is as good as a mile

Usually a narrow miss is as bad as a wide miss - they are both misses.

The saying is supposed to go back as far as the 18th century.

Kelly