More family quotes (was: Too late, too late, the maiden cried)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Sylvia:
> 
>> > "Too late, too late, the maiden cried
> > "As she waved her wooden leg goodbye".
> > 
>  "What 
> are you doin'?" was invariably answered by, "Pickin' a cuin [no 
idea how to 
> spell that: rhymes with doin']. Do you want the shell?"
> 
> Two from my Lancashire grandmother:
> 
> Of any object that had fallen to the ground before use: "It's been 
on the 
> floor; it'll suit".
> 
> Of a minor fault or blemish: "A man on a galloping horse won't 
notice" (I use 
> that one quite frequently).
> 
> From my father's (southern) family:
> 
> Of someone standing in the way "Your father was no glazier!" (IOW, 
I can't 
> see through you).
> 
> And my grandmother's tales of people she had known invariably 
ended, "And 
> s/he died."
> 
> And from personal (I think) experience of asking directions 
somewhere, a 
> frequent answer of my father's to "How do I get to...?" was (in 
country yokel 
> accent), "Follow the 'aystacks"
> 
> ~Eloise
> 
  I don't think these are all that unique to our family, but are 
commonly used.

"Madder than a wet hen"

"Not the sharpest tool in the shed" or "one neuron short of a 
synapse" (to refer to someone dull witted.)

"Don't get your knickers in a knot" (don't get upset)

"Make hay while the sun shines" (Take advantage of an opportunity 
when it presents itself)

In response to the question "Have you lived here all your life" 
(frequently asked by city people who find farmers and their 
lifestyle "quaint"), one is required to reply "Not yet." 


MMcK.