My mother was a great one for sayings that very nearly made sense. ‘You’ve always been a dreamer, Rosemary,’ she said. ‘If your head wasn’t screwed on, it’d probably fall off.’
She was also a great one for sayings that didn’t seem to make any sense at all.
‘Close enough is as good as a halfpenny’. That one was particularly baffling.
Another one was, ‘It’s the early worm that laughs longest.’ That was so obviously mixed-up that we began to think she was making them up