Familiar and funny sayings.

[Theresa Green]

....like a dolphin's nose

 

[Trumpet]

More faces than the town hall clock.

 

[BobClay]

F*** you and the horse you rode in on. (I've never had the opportunity to use this one not knowing people who ride horses ... but I live in hope.)

About as useful as a pogo stick in a field of highly sensitive mines.

"Youuuu dirty raaaat." (At a celebration dinner years ago James Cagney admitted he had never said this line in any movie he ever made. Yet impressionists stuck him with it for ever.)

"It was not a blackout. It was a temporary inhibit condition of the electrical supply to the vessel." (Marine engineers saying for a blackout. Dylan Thomas put it better: 'Rage rage against the dying of the light.')

 

[Studio Tan]

Apparently no one ever ‘lies’ in parliament. The correct euphemism is “The honourable member may have inadvertently misled the house”

 

[BobClay]

Apparently no one ever ‘lies’ in parliament. The correct euphemism is “The honourable member may have inadvertently misled the house”

Some years ago Dennis Skinner stood up in the house and said: "Half the Tory members opposite are crooks."
Amidst a storm of protest and shouting the Speaker stood up and told him to retract that statement.
He replied: "OK, half the Tory members opposite are not crooks."

He was then escorted out of the house, not at all unusual for the 'Beast of Bolsover.'

 

[Theresa Green]

CockSplat

 

[BobClay]

 

[staffordjas]

Nowt as queer as folk.

(I was actually thinking that after talking to a few people on my walk .... )

 

[Gramaisc]

"Oh, I didn't think you would be in now".

What my brother says about 50% of the times that I answer a phone call from him.

I've never found out why he rings me, if he thinks I'm not in.