10-03-2012, 10:35 AM
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Cold hands warm heartRe Fish or Cut bait Annie
There is some uncertainty about the precise meaning of this phrase. Some use it to mean 'make a choice about what you intend to do'; others have it that it means 'either get to work in a productive manner or do something else and let someone else work'. The second meaning, which I favour, and which is more common, is similar in meaning to 'put up or shut up', or the 20th century US vulgarism 'shit or get off the pot'.
11-03-2012, 01:37 AM
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Re: Interesting sayings
Originally Posted by Cookiecate
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Cold hands warm heartRe Fish or Cut bait Annie
Some use it to mean 'make a choice about what you intend to do'
Dropping like flies
Drinks like a fish
11-03-2012, 01:36 PM
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Mum was always ready with a 'wise old saying' such as if your left hand itches it means you will be paying out but if your right hand itches it means you will be receiving money.
Same if your ears were ringing say the alphabet and when the ringing stopped a person with the name beginning with the letter you had arrived at was talking about you. So there.
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