Dear Yvonne and Interested Others
-You have two chances, Buckley's and none (when you have buckley's
chance of
something you have no chance whatsoever.)
I understood a different reason for this one. Yes, the 2 chances are
Buckley's and None. However, the Buckley part refers to William Buckley the
convict who escaped in 1803, walked around the entire perimeter or Port
Phillip Bay (well over 100 miles) and then lived successfully with
Aborigines, who had never seen a white man, for 32 years, supporting a wife
and siring a couple of children.
So the saying really means that you have one very good chance or conversely
none at all.
-to talk the leg off a table (to talk a lot) another one is to yabber on.
And for that one I'd more often say "to talk the leg off an iron horse", or
even just to "rattle on".
Others I recall include:-
- "you can wait till the cows come home" - that is a very long while.
- "I'll skin you alive" - Mum was always saying that to us when we were
"little tackers" or "ankle bighters".
I'm sure there are hundreds of others, but you've made a great start :)
David in Ballarat
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