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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.....!!!

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

My grandmother was also born in 1901, and she would say "well, I'll swan", never swore, but had several replacements; "fiddlesticks" "horsefeathers" and "poppycock"

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

You can only plan plans.

 

You can't plan results.

 

--my husband's saying.

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

@Trailrun23 

I used to work with a gal who often used, 'Ooh, balderdash' when she made a mistake in her accounting.

 

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

Nervous as a cat in a room filled with rocking chairs
Bless your heart was my grandmother’s favorite
My doctor from years ago used this expression & it stuck with me & I still use it:
“In the land of the blind, the one eyed Jack is king”.
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Let bygones be bygones.

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?

If it's not broken, don't fix it.

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Re: What old unique saying can you remember?


@teganslaw wrote:

"See ya, wouldn't want to be ya." 




@teganslaw   love that one  !! My dear friend and I when teenagers always said that !   I had forgotten about it .
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@dmeasy wrote:

Fish and company stink after 3 days!!!


@dmeasy   And they do lol