Funny Sayings Part 2

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Funny Sayings Part 2

Zora

Funny Sayings Part 2

Since I am guessing that most of us here were not born in elevators, tents or barns and we know sockets from pig�s snouts (or at least I hope, we do! lol) ! Wink

I am going to continue the very interesting thread about sayings that we each have in our own countries...

http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=25031&page=1

Linda

13 Dec 2010

aliciapc

Good idea, Linda ! I had to leave so I missed Stella �s post - btw Stella, never heard of hocico de chancho ... in this country! It �s new for me!

I remembered another one : "If you play with fire you may get burnt", about someone doing something risky, repeatedly ...

13 Dec 2010

gloriawpai

my dad used to say: you just don �t forget your head because it �s stuck on your neck.
my mom �s favorite was: are you a partner of the electricity "Edison" company? we used to leave all rooms with the light on..

13 Dec 2010

ueslteacher

Speaking of heads, there �s a saying which they usually mention at the weddings: the man is the head of the family and the woman is the neck, so the head will only turn when the neck allows it to turn. So true about some families.

Sophia

13 Dec 2010

edrodmedina

OMG @gloriawpai...My mom would say "Que pasa? Son hijos de Con Edison? What �s going on? Are you sons of Con Edison? (the electric company in New York) for the same reason.

13 Dec 2010

mariannina

My mother, too, used to say: Are you an employee of ENEL (the Italian electric company)!

13 Dec 2010

almaz

�Mony a mickle maks a muckle � was what my old granny used to say. She was a devil for putting ha �pennies (and farthings and other assorted bawbees, native and foreign, if she found them) into jars.

�Mickle � and �muckle � both refer to size. The bland standard English version of the expression is something along the lines of �every little helps �.

13 Dec 2010

moravc

"A good housewife would jump over the fence for a single feather."
"If one steps upon a crumb, the souls in purgatory weep."
"Whoever does not come out even with his bread will not come out even with people."

(this dates back to the time when the pillows and blankets were filled with feathers...)
It is the best known quotation from the book "The Grandmother" by a famous Czech writer Bo�ena Němcov�.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEena_N%C4%9Bmcov%C3%A1

...Whenever Grandmother baked bread, the children had a feast. For each one she baked a little loaf filled with plum or apple sauce; this had never been done before. They, however, had to learn to take care of the crumbs. "The crumbs belong to the fire," she used to say as she brushed them up and threw them into the stove. If one of the children dropped a bit of bread, she made him pick it up, saying "Don�t you know that if one steps upon a crumb, the souls in purgatory weep?" She did not like to see bread cut uneven, for she used to say: "Whoever does not come out even with his bread will not come out even with people."

13 Dec 2010

libertybelle