Your favourite sayings, idioms, or clichés

"When the seagulls follow the trawler........"

"It's not a hanging offence".
"The world keeps spinning". For me.

I'll never speak to you again as long as my hole is looking at the ground.

hey ho

Whit's fur Ye'll No Go By Ye.

‘Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?’

All Dressed Up Like A Pox Doctor's Clerk

or

Up $hit Creek On A Barbed Wire Canoe

Think I got both from Oz in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Righty tighty... Lefty loosey...  Really did Change my life.

A closed mouth catches no flies..........

I remember one I used many years ago when I was going through a very bad time
JUST BECAUSE THE RATS ARE LEAVING THE SHIP IT DOES NOT MEAN THE SHIP ALLWAYS SINKS.
have a good day
regards
Ronnie.

Righty tighty... Lefty loosey...  Really did Change my life. - very good, Emitdeb.



My current favourite "Didn't hear the train last night doesn't mean it didn't go."

"For the many, not the few"

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

My dad had one about some medicine.

For coughs and colds and scabby holes and pimples round your willy.

My mums saying was long and thin goes right in but short and thick does the trick.

Never be without a Beano.

There is an old French saying "Le Français a le coeur à gauche, mais le portefeuille à droite."
(A Frenchman has his heart to the left and his wallet to the right).

Charlie, a scientific fact is the best explanation we have for all observed data. It remains so until refuted by new data or by a better theory (or both).
See for example Phlogiston theory which was widely believed until the discovery of oxygen by the brilliant Joseph Priestley and the subsequent painstaking work by the methodical Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th century.

The sooner you get behind the longer you have to catch up

Foinavon
Yep, that's science. That's why it's true whether you believe it or not.

That's what's called spin Charlie.

John Wayne when he was playing a sheep farmer and Gabby Hayes came galloping over the hill shouting, "John, John the injuns are coming" and John Wayne looks up and says his famous drawl, "In that case we'd better get the flock outa here."

I’m not being funny but ...