Is this a generation thing ?

Born in a barn and Up the wooden hill commonly used here (Somerset/Dorset) but one that I never understood came from my Nan. When we asked her where someone was she would say "up in Annie's room behind the wallpaper" lol.
Another that a lot of people don't know is dumpsy dark, that time when it's just starting to get dark in the evening.
As black as your hat, when somethings really dark.

Born in a barn and you're a door not a window for someone blocking the tv( they were small in those days) (liverpool )

Well, I had hair which was 'straight as a yard of pump water' down here in the west, but I also went up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and put the wood in the hole. I also, too, went to the foot of our stairs in amazement sometimes ............

Phrases such as this would have probably originated from working class poor households as they couldn't afford to let heat escape out of the door! I'm from the Midlands originally and knew what it meant. We have some made up sayings in our house e.g. we have a 'ketchup fairy' i.e. the kids can get the ketchup out but never seem to be able to put it away so the ketchup fairy (mom) usually does it.

"I was stood there like a can of milk" anyone remember? (Meaning I was left there feeling stupid)

Had to stop and think about this before the meaning came back to me. Gosh how quickly we forget. Think I only ever hear my family do a straightforward 'shut the door!' Less colourful and imaginative indeed.......

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs (amazement). up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire,dragged through a hedge backwards. Put the wood in the hole, yes how draughty houses were.

Gosh luluaugust, I was often dragged through a hedge backwards, as a result if which I very often looked like the wreck of the 'Esperus!

My MIL used to say put the wood in the hole, she also used to say 'you are better as a door, than a window' not sure what that one meant

Oh grammargran I'd forgotten those. We also put the wood in the hole, went up the wooden hill, things happened 'once every Preston Guild', we'd 'go to our house' in amazement. Remember 'you'll be stuck with that if the wind changes direction' when you pulled a face, or 'you'll laugh on the other side of your face? I'm from Liverpool, we had lots of Scouse sayings, many of which have also gone now - although none of us would recognise some of the things fictional characters might say on TV programmes!

Well, my old Lancashire nan used to say 'Be doing, Lady Jane'....It meant get a move on and, no, I'm not called Jane.
My grand-daughters think it's hilarious when I use it with them, and ask me who is Lady Jane. I have no idea!

In surprise my West Midlands granny would say 'Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!'

Arry. Might that be if you were in front of the tv or standing in someone's light when they were reading or sewing?

I still say 'Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire to DGC' .

"Home, James, and don't spare the horses." meant get a move on."Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick" was another favourite. My hair was "as straight as a yard of pumpwater".

Black country here. I've always used 'Put the wood in the hole!' and my DC both had that 'Oh blimey I'm turning into my Mum' moment when they found themselves asking DGS /DGD if they were born in a barn so that's obviously one of mine too - along with 'It's black over Bill's Mother's' when storm clouds are gathering in the distance and 'Going all round the Wrekin' if the way to somewhere is particularly convoluted....

'Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick'. 'Were you born in a barn'. 'Like a pea on a drum'. 'Face like a football' 'One eye going for the shopping and the other one coming home with the change' was to describe someone unfortunate enough to have a squint, not PC but .

I know all of these from childhood. The one I didn't know when I moved to Derbyshire was, 'Do you come from Warsop?' pronounced 'd'ya cum from War(rhyming with car)sop.
Has anyone else heard or used this one? If no reply, I will tell you.

Stans gran - sorry, you already said about the tv.

Harrigran you said it too, I should read the thread before rushing to post, sorry.

When I was small I heard 'All around the Wrekin' for a long way round. This was in Shropshire where everyone knew the Wrekin as a local hill. I hear it in Birmingham now used by people who don't always know what or where the Wrekin is. I'm wondering how far the expression has spread.

My mum would say my hair was "a straight as a yard of pump water" (it still is ) she was born in Bristol andit would seem from reading here to be a west country saying. Born in Kent I've never heard anyone else say it.

"Clever as Dick's hat band" from my Yorkshire Mum.

Yes.....'door than window' was blocking someone's view of something or obstructing the light - usually daylight.

Essex born and bred and never heard of putting the wood in the hole until I lived in Sheffield. Mind you, there it came out as 'Put wood int oil'.

Lukewarm water,tea, coffee etc. was described as 'aired'. I'd never hear that before, either

Putting the wood in the hole was frequently used by my parents and they both came from Kent. I don't think my (grown up) children would have a clue what it meant now.