From Christine Bate’s document titled Sadie’s Sayings.doc
Sadie’s Sayings
She’s like a hen with one chick.
A large sewing needle “like a dyke stour”.
Eat your (burnt) toast, it’ll make your hair curl.
In two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
It’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning.
Draught like a stepmother’s breath
Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
Looking like Biddle’s ghost.
Only fools starve in the midst of plenty.
I feel sick, I could eat a pie.
He’s a bobby dazzler.
Better in health than temper.
Blarin’ like a cow that’s lost its calf.
A wink’s as good as a nod to a blind horse.
Going like an old horse with its nose set for home.
Needs must when the Devil drives.
All hands on deck.
You look as if you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.
A cuddy bustard ( a large crane fly)
A cuddy means a donkey.
When we’re not fishing we’re mending the nets.
A person “clocking”, refers to a broody hen and has derogatory implications.
All clarted up – messy.
There’s nowt as queer as folks (fooaks)
Someone’s nose being out of joint.
Cupboard love
Little birds in their nests should agree or else they’ll fall out
Looking like the cat that got at the cream
You need a chase around a field with a wet stocking
Set a sprat to catch a mackerel
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
Jump up and bite a brick
Go and boil your head
Thirsty – “fish needs to swim”
You make a better door than a window
As black as your ‘at
Donkey’s years
Lily white hen (that never laid away)
Like Barney’s hat band – goes twice round but won’t tie
Worse disasters at sea
Where’s there’s no sense there’s no feeling
These things are sent to try us
I wouldn’t give tuppence for …..
The better the day the better the deed (used about work on Sunday)
“Something is coming” answered by “So is Christmas”
Home James and don’t spare the horses
Pink to make the boys wink
One (hanky) for show and one for blow
He could charm a duck off a pond.
As easy as falling off a dyke backwards
They’re all out of step but our Willy
Go through you like a dose of salts
Lovely weather for ducks
Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
Water bewitched and tea be-dammed
I could pee stronger (Granda Steel about weak tea)
It’s the willing horse that pulls the load
Cut your coat to suit your cloth
You’ll be as warm as toast
They’re all out of step but our Willie.
Cold hands warm heart.
You’ve lost your appetie and found a donkey’s
Look like the cat that got at the cream
Better the day, better the deed.
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
A good soldier never looks behind (when attention is drawn to something not seen)
You look like the wreck of the Hesperus
Mutton dressed up as lamb (someone trying to look young)
You eat a peck (of dirt) before you die
We lack for nothing we’ve got.
Donkey’s years – a long time.
No point in spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar.
Pride’s painful
Getting off Scot free
You look as if you’d lost a shilling and found sixpence.
It wasn’t the cough that carried her off, ‘twas the coffin they carried her off in.
A creaking gate hangs a long time.
Ratch around – search for something small
Clarty messy
Lost his appetite and found a donkey’s
He deserves a leather medal (for an achievement)
They’re all out of step but our Willie.
Have you lost your appetite and found a donkey’s?
He bled like a stuck pig.
We haven’t seen hide nor hair of him.
There are worse disasters at sea.
Mother’s verse for Sundays in Lent
Tid
Mid
Misere
Carlin
Palm
Pace egg day
Tid – Te Deum Laudamus sung
Mid – Mi Deus (hymn)
Misere – Miserere sung
Carlin – a kind of bean usually cooked for that Sunday
Palm – Palm Sunday
Pace egg day – pace egg, name for Easter egg