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No, I haven't. It should have said MANY a mickle makes a muckle - whatever mickles and muckles are??

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From the Scottish : Mickle = small amount Muckle = large amount.

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Fur coat and no knickers ........................all show on the top

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"A face like a Lurgan spade."
This is an expression I heard in N.Ireland. A Lurgan spade is a spade with a long narrow blade, hence having a long face / being gloomy.

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It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
(An action or happening has to be really bad if nobody gains anything good from it).

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Being "On the pig's back". = Having good luck / being contented.

"Shooting the moon" = leaving a house overnight to avoid paying rent.

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We call that "a moonlight flit" .... or .... "doing a moonlight"

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"A blind man on a galloping horse could see it!"

My grandmother always used that one and it used to confuse me as a child (I couldn't work out what a blind man would be doing riding a horse in the first place!). Of course it makes sense now, but it's still a rather strange saying!

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One my old gran used to tell us when kids having a meal.

"Let your meat stop your mouth"

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Strange sayings that express surprise/shock:

"Get to' foot of our stairs!"

"Well spank my ass and call me Charlie!"

"well slap a my thigh!"