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If ifs and ans where pots and pans where would be the tinker? |
This means that if things could be improved by wishful thinking we would all have our hearts desire.But in reality we have to put up with what the real world has in store for us. Sent in By George Jarrold |
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If
wishes were horses,then beggers would ride.
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This means that if things could be improved by wishful thinking we would all have our hearts desire.But in reality we have to put up with what the real world has in store for us. Sent in By George Jarrold |
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If
you want peace prepare for war.
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This means that if you show that you are able and willing to defend yourself you will not be attacked or bullied and peace will therefore follow. Sent in By George Jarrold |
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Is
my eye Green?
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Do you think I'm naive...Green or Ignorant? Sent in by Roanne Wodtli. |
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Its raining Cats and Dogs.
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When houses used to have thatched roofs piled high with no wood underneath, the only place that the animals could get warm was of course, in the nice thick straw of the roof. So all the cats, dogs and other small animals(mice & bugs) lived in the roof. Then when it rained the straw would become slippery and the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying 'Its raining Cats and Dogs'. |
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Keep
a stiff upper lip.
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Before
the Napoleonic wars there was a bizarre fashion among officers to have
tarred moustaches. Their moustaches would be smeared with hot pitch
and then moulded into shape before it solidifed. This meant these brave
officers could 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
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Keep
your shirt on.
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Shirts
in the earlier days were rather expensive, so when a person was thinking
of fighting someone they would take off their shirt. So if you had a
greivence with a person and he said to you "Keep
your shirt on", what he meant was 'I
don't want to fight with you'.
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It's
a wise man who knows his own father
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"In other words no one really knows who his father is; he has to take his mother's word for it. This is extended to mean that there are things we cannot prove beyond doubt but just have to take it at face value. Science has moved on since but the general idea still applies. Sent in By George Jarrold |
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