What’s your favourite saying- and what does it mean?

[140mower]

....... And no good deed goes unpunished.
Of course I am pretty sure we have all " gone a$$ over tea kettle" a time or two....

 

[little ol' e]

my best boss always said “nothing good will come of this”, usually when I was suggesting some wild-ass solution to a problem

When I was an apprentice tool maker, coming in on a Saturday mornin' hung over along with jet lag from the twin paper rockets we'd make. I was told on occasion, " if your not part of the solution then your part of the problem".
I was never good with Die tryouts on a Saturday morning in an 800T press.

 

[StevSmar]

“This has been a great opportunity for improvement”… normally said after something has gone wrong.

I would sometimes get stares of incomprehension when I used the expression “busier than a blue arsed fly”…
I was talking to a fellow from out east and he said that his expression is similar but adds further context “busier than a green arsed fly around a piece of shit” which is certainly easier to comprehend.
I get a chuckle that that the arses of the flies in Australia were blue, but in Canada they were green…

 

[YotaBota]

" and the coroner's report said....."

sometimes preceded by "hold my beer" or "watch this"

 

[140mower]

sometimes preceded by "hold my beer" or "watch this"

....and followed by " well, that didn't go as planned" and, " who woulda thunk?"

 

[Doggggboy]

A favourite from a holiday in Sicily.
The mother of stupid is always pregnant.

 

[Dabbler]

When someone tells me "it can't be done that way" I always say to myself (silently) "oh yeah? Is there a way?"

 

[eotrfish]

A few from my grandpa...

"spins like the button on a shithouse door"
"shaking like a cat shitting fish hooks"
"plugged up tighter than a bull's arse in fly time"

and my favourite from an old friend in the piney woods of east Texas

"it ain't braggin if you done it"

 

[curmudgeon]

"as straight as a dog's hind leg" - most frequently used by my dad to describe a line of fence posts I just finished driving in by hand

and one from your homeland, "mutton dressed as lamb" - used by a colleague at work to describe a particularly nasty client

"it's never easy" - a commiseration from our carpenter after an unexpected problem messes up the day

 

[historicalarms]

“This has been a great opportunity for improvement”… normally said after something has gone wrong.

I would sometimes get stares of incomprehension when I used the expression “busier than a blue arsed fly”…
I was talking to a fellow from out east and he said that his expression is similar but adds further context “busier than a green arsed fly around a piece of shit” which is certainly easier to comprehend.
I get a chuckle that that the arses of the flies in Australia were blue, but in Canada they were green…

"busier than a four peckered wild cat" was a common conversation starter around the farm at seeding or harvest time.