YOUNGY Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 Where do they come from? Goes like sh@t off a shovel. Have you ever tried getting a sticky sh@t off a shovel, it don't happen! Goes like stink, have you ever been in the bathroom after someones had a dump that smells, it don't go! Is there any more?
Posse Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 Yeah f Uc k my old boots ( have you ever F uC ked your boots lol )
YOUNGY Posted June 7, 2012 Author Report Posted June 7, 2012 I ain't tried, do you have to do the laces up???
Col-ashtonmobile Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 ' like a dog with 2 cocks ' !!! , i,ve never seen a dog with 2 cocks lol
deltamal Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 Like a rat up a drainpipe! - passion with a doris, don't think a rat would go up a drainpipe.... Where there's muck there's brass! true, ask any pikey! All mouth and trousers, never quite understood that one is it a doris thing? Spoil the ship for a ha'peth of tar, something to do with under-sealing old Fords!
deltamal Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 Yeah f Uc k my old boots ( have you ever F uC ked your boots lol ) Shoe fetish thing!
turnover Posted June 7, 2012 Report Posted June 7, 2012 ask posse how he knows,,, as tight as a ducks arse,,,
lotusless Posted June 8, 2012 Report Posted June 8, 2012 Basicly they are all about sex and wanking ! "Beat about the bush" ...... "Cock a hoop"..... "Cock and bull story"..... "Fiddle while Rome burns".... "Hat trick"........x3 "knuckle under".... "Lick into shape"... "A long shot"..... "Peeping tom" ...... "Pull out all the stops"..... "To see a man about a dog"...... "Tongue in cheek"....... "Touch and go "........ "Touch wood"...... "True blue"...... "Willy nilly"....... "Win hands down"....... and a modern saying..." I promise to pull it out of your mouth before i come".....
Admin Vista Posted June 8, 2012 Admin Report Posted June 8, 2012 Touching cloth and Turtles head are certainly not about the five finger shuffle What about: Sweet Fanny Adams / Sweet FA It ain't over till the fat lady sings Freeze the balls off a brass monkey All sewn up At a loose end Run the gauntlet Between the devil and the deep blue sea To the bitter end Pull your finger out Chock-a-block Rack and ruin Copper bottomed Cut and run Dutch courage Show your true colours First rate Hand over fist (no this isn't about either) Let the cat out of the bag No room to swing a cat
stuartp Posted June 8, 2012 Report Posted June 8, 2012 take a look at http://www.straightdope.com/ he's american but there are answers to quite a few of these in there along with many other questions you never thought you wanted to know the answers to... until you realise that you do
5tox Posted June 8, 2012 Report Posted June 8, 2012 When i was at the university of Derby i knew a girl from rotheram who's favorite 'surprised' expression was "Shit The Bed!!"
Col-ashtonmobile Posted June 8, 2012 Report Posted June 8, 2012 different kettle of fish ....... do fish go in the kettle doris is up the duff......... thought duff meant faulty/not working spic and span.......?????????????
Posse Posted June 8, 2012 Report Posted June 8, 2012 you cant polish a turd lol No u can terry turnover can Also my mates mexico looks the tits when polished.
Mad Mex Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 you cant polish a turd lol No, but u can roll it in glitter
turnover Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 you cant polish a turd lol No u can terry turnover can Also my mates mexico looks the tits when polished. i know as ive told you dont matter how much i polish your car
Posse Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 you cant polish a turd lol No u can terry turnover can Also my mates mexico looks the tits when polished. i know as ive told you dont matter how much i polish your car Your heads going to get polished next time we hook up
turnover Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 you cant polish a turd lol No u can terry turnover can Also my mates mexico looks the tits when polished. i know as ive told you dont matter how much i polish your car Your heads going to get polished next time we hook up yes please sweety but dont tell everyone you polish my helmet leave it for the mens room
mk2 mike Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 A lot of 'em are naval sayings. Not enough room to swing a cat for example refers to the 'cat o nine tails' a whip with nine ends used to punish sailors, and on some ships deck there was no room to swing it and use it properly. Square meal- Meals onboard ships used to be on square wooden plates. On the fiddle- the raised edge of the square plates was called a fiddle, and if you took too much food than allowed it would spill over the edge and 'be on the fiddle' Between the devil and the deep blue sea- the devil was a name for the longest seam of a wooden ship, which ran from the bow to the stern. When at sea and the devil had to be caulked, the sailor sat in a bosun's chair to do so. He was suspended between the devil and the sea, a very precarious position, especially when the ship was underway Brass monkeys- cannonballs used to be stored aboard ship in piles, on a brass frame or tray called a 'monkey'. In very cold weather the brass would contract, spilling the cannonballs: hence very cold weather is 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. To ‘run the gauntlet’ means to endure a punishment dealt out by your friends or colleagues. Back in the 1700s, it was an actual naval punishment. Run the gauntlet- If a sailor was condemmed to ‘run’ or ‘walk’ the guantlet, it meant that he would be led around the the quarterdeck of the ship and flogged by his fellow sailors. Typically, two officers would stand around the convicted man, one in front (walking backwards), and one behind him, both holding out swords, pointed at his back and abdomen, to prevent him from running away. All the other sailors were given knotted ropes. As the sailor was ‘run through the gauntlet’, each of the other sailors would flog him with his given piece of rope, until the man had reached the end of the line. True colours- In naval warfare of the 18th century, your ‘colours’ were your flags, specifically, your naval jack (the naval flag of the country which your ship was a part of). Under the Articles of War (the Royal Navy’s code of conduct for nearly 400 years; discontinued in 2006!), when going into battle, you were obliged to run up your colours (your naval flag), to identify the nationality of your ship. If you wished to decieve your enemy, you might run up a different flag than that which belonged to your country, perhaps to make the other ship think that you were an ally. Once you were nice and close, within firing-range, you’d literally ‘show your true colours’ as say, a British Man-o’-War instead of a French one, and open fire on a French warship, catching its crews off-guard and gaining an advantage in battle. Show/Learn the ropes- When you start on something new, you’re generally put under the instruction of a more experienced person who will ‘show you the ropes’, that is, teach you the basics of the job which you are to perform. Onboard a sailing ship, the ‘ropes’ was the rigging. The stays, ratlines, lashings and other cordage, which operated the ship’s sails. Learning the ropes meant being able to know instantly, which ropes did what, so that you could power the ship effectively through the waves. Loose Cannnon.- A ‘loose cannon’ is something or someone that is totally out of control, which is going around everywhere, wrecking everything and laying waste to whatever it touches. This phrase came from the gun-decks of 18th century warships, where a cannon and its gun-carriage (which weighed several hundred pounds) might literally break loose from its shackles and ropes, and rock and roll and pitch and swing all over the gun-deck, causing catastrophic damage, like a battering-ram from hell. god knows where half the other lot come from
over_head_cam Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 I know that 'chock-a-block' refers to a block and tackle that you put a wedge in to stop the rope pulling through. I am also aware that apparently you can't have your cold beans hot lol
Admin Vista Posted June 10, 2012 Admin Report Posted June 10, 2012 A lot of 'em are naval sayings god knows where half the other lot come from All of the ones I quoted are naval sayings Sweet Fanny Adams / Sweet FA: Nothing at all. Fanny Adams, aged about nine, was murdered in Alton, Hampshire in 1867. Her murderer, Frederick Baker, cut her up and left the pieces of her body in Deptford Victualling Yard. Tinned mutton was added to the diet of sailors at about this time, and became known as ‘Fanny Adams’, whilst ‘fanny’ became slang for a cooking pot. It ain't over till the fat lady sings: It isn't finished till it's finished. (There's debate on this one. Popular belief is that it's about Opera but don't believe Wikipedia's BS answer about Soprano's on this one). The fat lady was the boiler in the early days of steam propulsion (naval and rail). Old engineers would steam the boiler until the safety whistles lifted. Ergo, It ain't over till the fat lady sings All sewn up: Completed; concluded. The bodies of sailors who died or were killed at sea were sewn into bits of sail canvas. Stitching would begin at the feet and end at the head, with the last stitch passing through the sailor’s nose. The bodies went overboard, with cannonballs attached to the canvas ensuring that they sank. At a loose end: Unoccupied. The original saying was ‘at loose ends’, and described the task of splicing and repairing broken and frayed ropes on board ship, which sailors did when they had no other duties To the bitter end: To the last, no matter the struggle. The posts on the decks to which anchor cables were attached were known as ‘bitts’. The end of an anchor cable secured to the bitts was the bitter end (as opposed to the anchor end). In bad weather when the anchor dragged, cable was fed out, until the bitter end. Pull your finger out: Hurry; get a move on. Cannons were primed with a small amount of gunpowder poured into an ignition hole. A sailor kept this powder in place with a finger, and was ordered to pull his finger out just before ignition. Chock-a-block: Full up. Describes two blocks of hauling tackle pulled as tightly together as they could be. Rack and ruin: Destroyed; severely damaged; wrecked. Rack is a variant of ‘wreck’, and then ‘wrack’, and describes the complete destruction of a ship. Copper bottomed: Solid; trustworthy. Wood-boring molluscs damaged ships' hulls. To overcome this, ship builders first experimented with lead sheathing, and from the mid-eighteenth century attached the more reliable copper sheathing to provide protection. Cut and run: Hurry away. This saying may have two origins, both to do with ships at anchor needing to sail in a hurry, the most widely thought being that a captain would order the anchor cable to be cut. Alternatively, it describes the action of cutting ropes that held furled sails enabling the sails to fall and the ship to move off quickly. Dutch courage: False courage induced by alcohol; alcoholic drink. During the Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth century, a descriptive phrase that included the word ‘dutch’, such as ‘go dutch’, ‘dutch uncle’ and ‘double dutch’, was used as an insult. English propaganda at the time claimed that Dutch sailors and other troops were cowards and would only fight when drunk on schnapps. First rate: The very best. British warships were classed (rated) according to the number of guns on board. Those ships with 100 guns or more were classified as 'first', the top of six rates. Hand over fist (no this isn't about either): Rapidly (especially when making money). Originally 'hand over hand'; the quickest method used by sailors to pull in ropes or move up and down the rigging. Let the cat out of the bag: Reveal a secret. The cat (cat o’ nine tails), the whip used to flog sailors, was usually kept in a cloth bag. No room to swing a cat: In a confined space. Floggings using a cat (cat o’ nine tails) were carried out on deck because of the restricted space and headroom below decks, where there wasn’t the room to ‘swing the cat’.
YOUNGY Posted June 10, 2012 Author Report Posted June 10, 2012 when the missus catches me looking at other birds, i say to her you don't join a library to read one book
popeye Posted June 11, 2012 Report Posted June 11, 2012 "Peeping tom" ...... oh yes...... funny that you have this one neil...
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