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The Mouse
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Hi Elaine,

Yes, it's funny how children misunderstand sayings, isn't it?

My husband says that he could never understand the saying 'between a rock and a hard place'. It turns out that is because in his mind, it was ' between a rock and a hard plaice'!!!
What a strange mind he must have had! :lol:
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Hi Mouse. I'm so glad I wasn't the only child to be puzzled by these sayings...they were rife in our house.

I was often "away with the fairies" in a world of my own and quite frequently got distracted and forgot to do something my Mam asked of me. When I would say, "....but I thought I had done it." the response from my exasperated Mam would be "Thought? Well you know what thought did, don't you!".........I didn't and still don't grasp the meaning of that one!
I think....
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Hi Elaine, I think your mother didn't finnish it. ....." You know what thought did.....Followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding".
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Hi Gerry. :lol: :lol: :lol: Well, that would have really confused me! Not heard that bit but I like it!

I was always a gullible child and my parents were fond of telling me;"You'd believe hoss tods were figs"
I don't think I was that gullible!!
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Elaine wrote:Hi Gerry. :lol: :lol: :lol: Well, that would have really confused me! Not heard that bit but I like it!

I was always a gullible child and my parents were fond of telling me;"You'd believe hoss tods were figs"
I don't think I was that gullible!!
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That reminds me on my aunty who, according to my mum, came back with a tub full of sheep droppings on one bilberry-picking expedition when they were girls! :lol:
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In my family, when I was a child, if you were seen with your finger up your nose, you were told:

Come out of there - it's not a chip shop! :?
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