Put Downs

Mad Angus McAskill, the Bosun on the NZ Star, in 1953, always said between each smash of a Big Iron Fist,
"Don't uk about with ukall you know ukall about."
I was a quick learner.
Later he stood on the tracks and tried to stop a Big Canadian Pacific Locomotive with his Big Iron Fist, The Train did not stop.
Brian

Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS

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Originally Posted by j.sabourn

Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS

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or
as much use as a pork pie at a jewish wedding
or
as much use as tits on a bull.
rgds
JA

As much use as a one armed paper hanger in a storm.

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Originally Posted by j.sabourn

Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS

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Use that one all the time.
Think it says it all!!

A Scottish one I like is "She has a face like a nippy [sour] sweetie" or her face is tripping her;)

Another, girl or woman of loose moral standing or Brazen attitude a "gallus besom"
Think the equivalent in England would refer to same type as "a cow" a humongous no no up here when I was growing up:rolleyes:

Used by one of the instructors at sea school, "trying to teach you lot is like trying to plait sawdust" kt