Funny Old Sayings By Allana Worthington Balboa Press Copyright © 2017 Allana Worthington All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5043-0570-9 CHAPTER 1 It's nice to be important but more important to be nice. No good throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Grizzling about it won't get you anywhere. Life's a joke, and then you croak. The tables will turn on him. Less hurry, more haste. Neat as a pin. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. No need to get shirty. A wigwam for a goose's bridle. Sling your hook. Wouldn't be dead for quid's. Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe. A few too many under the belt. Up in old Annie's room behind the clock. Top of the morning to you. A tidy little sum. Great minds think alike. Just a little snippet. Crooked as a dog's hind leg. Time heals all wounds and wounds all heels. Life's a bitch, and then you die. On the last lap. Done and dusted. Taken for a ride. A problem shared is a problem halved. A nine-day wonder. Off your own bat. That takes the biscuit. Couldn't lay straight in bed. She'll steal the show. Top of the heap. Build a bridge, and get over it. A few skeletons in the closet. You're getting up my nose. To run with the fox and chase with the hounds. Drop a size before the mince pies. The pennies just dropped. In the running. Having a brainwave. Make a beeline for the door. It's all gone up in smoke. I must crack on. 2y'sur, 2y'sub, icur 2y's4 me. Make hay while the sun shines. Quick off the mark. Not a bad pair of pins. You rat fink. Not much of a track record. As mad as a hatter. While the cat's away, the mice will play. Curiosity killed the cat. Too good to be true. Holy terror. Got his pound of flesh. Mind your own beeswax. She's a fly in the ointment. That's got him stumped. Waste not; want not. Nothing but a boil on the arse of society. Over the moon. He's hell-bent on it. He's off his bloody trolley. A few kangaroos short in the top paddock. They are posh. As funny as a play. Hat trick. Three sheets to the wind. Pot calling the kettle black. He's under the thumb. She's over the hill. He's as bent as. Just going to spend a penny. Sailing close to the wind. One fell swoop. Bit of a loose cannon. To gild the lily. Bugger you, Jack. I'm all right. Off your dial. Like a pimple on a pumpkin. That's a bit over the top. A face as long, as a fiddle. On your bike. Telling porky pies. A real snake in the grass. That'll throw him off the scent. Eat shit, and die. Running out of juice. I could have crawled under a threepenny bit. Not much chop. Couldn't shit in the ocean without getting caught. It'll be a walk in the park. Takes one to know one. Fading away to a shadow. Cat on hot bricks. Pipped at the post. I can't take a trick. You have painted yourself into a corner. It's curtains for him. Keep me in the loop. Top billing. On top of the world. Getting on my nerves. Shit a brick. Once bitten, twice shy. Pay through the nose. Pigs might fly. Out on a limb. Show a leg. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. To the manner born. Wake up and smell the roses. It was like lying on a bed of nails. Wardrobe drinker. Going like a bat out of hell. You're driving me crazy. Do you think that's fair play? Bit of a dark horse. Sitting on your derrière. Spare the rod; spoil the child. That's bull dust. That's not cricket. Digging your own grave. Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Built like a brick shithouse. Blood's thicker than water. Better the devil you know than the one you don't. Like a bull at a gate. By and large. Swallow the bait. Ten-ton Tessie. If it were raining sausages, I'd grab a turd. Wouldn't give him the steam off my shit. The quiet mouse gets the cheese. Leave well enough alone. Keep your trap shut. I could eat the crotch out of a low-flying duck. She's a head-turner. Being led up the garden path. It was no walk in the park. Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth. Just about petered out. The old ball and chain. It means squat to me. I certainly had him pegged. There is going to be the devil to pay when they find out. Don't try buttering me up. Didn't sleep a wink. Wet my whistle. That was out of left field. Bottoms up. There's no fool like an old fool. That took the wind out of his sails. Tit for tat. A watched pot never boils. That was a close shave. Better to be safe than sorry. She is worth her weight in gold. By jingoes. I'm bushed. Old fancy pants. Tender loving care. That was out of the blue. Old bossy boots. To start from scratch. Like lambs to the slaughter. Stick it up your clacker. Sugar and spice and all things nice. In for a penny, in for a pound. That'll warm the cockles of your heart. I'm gobsmacked. Winning by a nose. Money burns a hole in your