Hi JaneS
It has a similar meaning here to America.

Kelly

I'm sure this one's been done.  A young man wanting to date a young lady gets a "no" answer and he tells his friends...

I struck out with her!

Hi Rammel
One For The Road

It means a  last drink taken just before leaving on a journey.

Though the origin is not so mice!

In the UK during middle ages and mediaeval period, the condemned prisoners were taken from London city gaols to Tyburn Hill for execution.

On the way along what is today's Oxford Street in London, the cart stopped and they were allowed one final drink at a country inn situated on the road. The 'one' they were drinking was for the road to the final journey!

Kelly

797 - Swing the Lead
798 - I struck out with her!
799 - One For The Road

Striking out #251
251 - The road is so crooked, it would brake a snakes back. Repeat of #225

Swing the Lead   Not used around here.  I do understand the origin.

Thanks Rammel

Kelly

Kelly. see my reply to that, in the list

Re: Old Sayings and Quips From our past
« Reply #177 on: Yesterday at 12:52:53 PM »

 
451 - There is a bee in your bonnet

Hi Bubble

Thank you

Kelly

Hi Rammel
Best Bib and Tucker

One best clothes.  The saying has been used since the 1800's

Kelly

Marry in haste, repent at leisure

To run is not necessarily to arrive

How about...

You made your bed. Now you must sleep in it! 

I take it to mean that you've made your own problems and it's your responsibility to deal with them.  I've also heard this one all my life.

I remember my father and Uncle telling me......

" Take me as you find me..."

and another well-known saying was....

" What you see is what you get...."

Jane, I remember being told that as well!

Oil and water do not mix

Hi Rammel
Make a Mountain out of a molehill

Exaggerate on something far more than it needs be

The saying has been around since the 1500's

Kelly

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

Kelly, do you have a book  giving all these dates and details on the sayings?

What goes up, must come down

When my husband was feeling particularly unlucky, he would remark...

If I were starving and it was raining soup, I'd be standing there with a fork!

Ha ha ha Jane, a very picturesque one!

Hi Bubble
Regarding saying and quotes.

I know most quotes I use, but research them before I post them.

However, the one I used about swinging the lead, as I live on an Island and where many are fishermen, it is a well used quote and I knew its origin.

Kelly

Y'all been busy again 

800 - You made your bed. Now you must sleep in it!
801 - To run is not necessarily to arrive
802 - "Take me as you find me..."  Similar to # 307, but different enough.
803 - "What you see is what you get...."
804 - Oil and water do not mix
805 - He who refuses to obey cannot command.
806 - If I were starving and it was raining soup, I'd be standing there with a fork!
807 - I'm up to my neck in alligators.


#46 - Make a Mountain out of a molehill
#190 - What goes up, must come down
#505 - Best Bib and Tucker
#291 - Marry in haste, repent at leisure

483 - The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which people say we cannot do
         Removed - Duplicate of # 475

Hi Rammel
Thank you

alligators... typo, I remember because they have 2 jaws!

Hi Rammel
In The Twinkling of an Eye

Something completed quickly, a short space of time.

This saying is still used today.

Just resourced the saying, as it could be said it is  good to know where the saying came from.

Actually it is from a passage of the New Testament.

Kelly

and we say " in a wink"

Different places, different variations

yes, people seem to think alike, no matter where.
To err is human - is a saying in all countries, even way back in Africa.

Bubble, I think that one might have come from the Bible.  I'm not as familiar with the Bible as I might wish but the entire quote as I've heard it is....

To err is human,
To forgive Divine!

Most of my life I've heard that other one...

In the twinkling (wink) of an eye.  And I've heard it both ways.

My grandmother also used to say "Quick as a wink".

Hi Rammel
Wide of the Mark

Basically something or someone is wrong.

The word mark is for anything that is set up to be aimed at.

The expression was borrowed from target shooting.

Kelly