Those wise old sayings! (and the not so wise and not so old)

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I still use the following vernacular and my kids cringe at how old and embarrassing I am.

I call a ten dollar note a Blue Swimmer, a twenty is a Lobbie (Lobster) and fifty is a McGarratt (Hawaii five-O). The hundred was referred to as a Grey Nurse.

I call my children Tin Lids (kids), admire Mr Clipped in his Bag of Fruit (suit) and reign supreme as the Trouble & Strife (wife).

Who gives a flying duck if I speak weird? Last time I looked this is Stralya.
Well when I was growing up the currency was a trey,zac,a bob,2 bob,10bob,quid,fiver and a brick.
 
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Today I’m reminded of one of my favourites:

“They wouldn’t know cough from clay”
 
I still use the following vernacular and my kids cringe at how old and embarrassing I am.

I call a ten dollar note a Blue Swimmer, a twenty is a Lobbie (Lobster) and fifty is a McGarratt (Hawaii five-O). The hundred was referred to as a Grey Nurse.

I call my children Tin Lids (kids), admire Mr Clipped in his Bag of Fruit (suit) and reign supreme as the Trouble & Strife (wife).

Who gives a flying duck if I speak weird? Last time I looked this is Stralya.

I love your currency descriptions.
I can understand Blue Swimmer, Lobbie (Lobster) and Grey Nurse. These all relate to the colours. The paper 50 was a mixture of yellow and greens. Having watched Hawaii Five O I should get the reference but I'm only guessing. Yellow for the sand on the beach maybe, or did the person on the note look like McGarratt.
 
I was explaining something that happened earlier in the day to my husband about a problem caused by one of my daughters. She had done something wrong but and the expression I used to tell my husband about what I did was, "I didn't rouse at her" I haven't spelt this before so take rouse to rhyme with house. My first reaction was that I hadn't used that expression in ages, but I wondered whether I had been using it over the years with the girls. Rouse in this context is a word we used in my family as a way of saying, "telling off, criticised, got angry with". I have no idea where it came from and I'm sure I've only heard it used, never read it. I'm wondering where it came from. It's often used in past tense like, "Roused at her." I'm wondering whether there is a Welsh background to it. If it's not Welsh it's probably Irish. I think I've heard the word used to tell off a dog.
 
I think that you may find that it’s ‘raus’ - German for ‘out’.
 
I love your currency descriptions.
I can understand Blue Swimmer, Lobbie (Lobster) and Grey Nurse. These all relate to the colours. The paper 50 was a mixture of yellow and greens. Having watched Hawaii Five O I should get the reference but I'm only guessing. Yellow for the sand on the beach maybe, or did the person on the note look like McGarratt.

Simply due to the relationship between numbers and people. Colour isn’t relevant.
Hawaii Five O relates to the fact Hawaii was the 50th state to join the union.
The Hawaii PD are called Hawaii Five O
McGarratt is the senior figure in the show.
So Five O - $50.00 McGarratt = slang for $50.00
 
Thank your mother for the rabbits.

Tiggety boo

Lickety split

Lay down with dogs you will get up with fleas (Probably still used)

Spend some for fun but save some too - that's what all good SSBs do (Thanks Zig and Zag)

A stitch in time saves nine

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

Wouldn't be dead for quids

Penny for your thoughts

He'd cut a farthing in half
 
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I've posted this quote here before but haven't previously seen it used in real life.

American leaders aren’t always so contrite. As captured by the tapes he made of his presidency, Richard Nixon in 1971 called Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin’s father, a “pompous egghead,” accompanied by other, much saltier language. When the elder Trudeau found out he had been called one particular insult by Nixon, he responded: “I’ve been called worse things by better people.”

 
My mother often used to say.... he's a few shillings short of a quid (aka: assumed to be intellectually challenged)
 
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Before we leave currency, how about "In for a penny, in for a pound."

An elderly lady i used to visit described a social worker looking too smart for visiting a poor neighbourhood:
"She was all dressed up like a tuppenny rabbit."
 
I'll start with the phrase:
"Telling a furphy" - is, I believe a tall story or white lie. An old guy told me it originated from WW1 where the Victorian made Furphy water tank was hauled around the battlefields by mule and become a focal point to regale with tales of battle, with quite a few of those tales embellished somewhat.

What pearlers do you hold dear?

STILL in production....
 

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This one is a wise saying... but is used in a mistaken and not-so-wise way by many.... ;)

"The exception proves the rule" People say that in the sense that the exception confirms the rule... which is of course ridiculous...

"Proves" in that saying is the other, older meaning of proof... that is... to TEST. Which DOES make sense... The only place it is still routinely used in my experience is in the "proofing" of firearms.... but I bet "proof tests" exist elsewhere too...
 
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