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Out of all the words and sayings in the world, why do we choose to use the ones we do? Where did they come from? Saying that – the phrases that I hear: are they just the ones I am tuned into listening for, I wonder?

New Zealand
Look left, look right, look left again.
Aotearoa - Good morning everybody
Tekau, Iwa, Waru, Whitu, Ono, Rima, Wha, Toru, Rua, Tahi
(IT'S) CLEVER MARY The enemy of grease - Kind to dainty hands. |
         Aunt Daisy- Maud Basham - from 1930 extolled the virtues of such products from the airwaves of 1ZB.          http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3468/features/7350/with_pranks_plugs.html
TWO WINDOWS and A DOOR On the list of things to bring from the mother land - 1840 on.
         What about the kitchen sink?
That won't wash - damn right it won't by itself.
Keeping up with Mr and Mrs Jones.
I was so tired I slept like a flat battery
A cut lunch.
Maori Proverbs
     "Ko main kai atu ko maru kai mai ka ngehengohe": Give as well as take and all is well.
     "Kotahi te koura a wetaweta te hiku": Don't divide a small thing
     "Kaore te kumara e korero mo tona reta" The kumara does not say how sweet it is.
                (Self praise is no recommendation).
                This is my favourite - So sweet and simple - much like the kumara.

From everywhere else
Cliche niche
My Niche
Yours sincerely
Yours faithfully
Proof is in the pudding?
Quite divine
To see you to see you nice - Generation game.
Setting up shop
"Our distress look"
"Just Distressing - disdain for ourselves?
The mish mash of plates coming together, crashing - Fold in (baking term - to gently lay on top of each other - not mixing by hand.
Consolation price
First place
"What now - Stu" Andy Taylor?
Bull - at a gate
Subtle is as subtle does
With Just Cause - the Castle (Fav movie)
Beyond Reasonable doubt - legal terms (NZ - well known quote too)
Issues to Address - add dress - play on words
4 x 2 log cabin
Pick the bone clean old mother
Red, Cream Black.
I can make it on my own - Mary Tyler Moore
The Princess and the pea
Just let it go all right .
Survival of the fittest
Bread and jam will do
The height of fashion
With all due respect
Domestic Bliss.

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