Idioms phrases and proverbs

Words can mean different things in different places. Working in Leeds there was going to be a bus strike on Friday and my class asked how would they get to school. I said that they would have 'leg it, do you no harm for once' and they looked astonished.
It was later that I discovered that what on my side of the Pennines meant 'walk' in Yorkshire meant 'truant', I'd sanctioned a day off.

In my part of Yorkshire (Huddersfield), to leg it means to run away from potential trouble, to scarper.

If I amused my grandma, she used to say, "Ee, you are a cough drop!"
If something surprised her, she said, "Ee , I'll go to our 'ouse", or "Ee , I'll go to 'bottom of our stairs!".

Ah MillieBear my late MIL was most definitely nesh! Mum always said that 'you stand need' for whatever had been asked of someone if she thought they had a bit of cheek. When my sister and I were in a giggly mood she say, 'you'd laugh to see a pudding crawl,' indeed I would.

"Go 'ome, yer rabbit's dead!" (North Yorkshire)
Apparently, OH's grandma used to say that to him often when he was a boy, when he had outstayed his welcome at her house. He sometimes says it now, jokingly, to our own dgc.

A saying in my family, if a child was caught picking their nose was
"Cum out, it's not a chip shop!"
I have had plenty of opportunity to pass this one one to my own dgc, as dgd is an avid nose-picker!

My favourite expression, from my grandad, was:
"Thes non reet but thee 'n me, 'n am non suh sure 'bart thee!
Translation: "No one is right (i.e. normal) but you and me, and I am not totally sure about you!"

When being told off:-

You’ll be laughing the other side of your face in a minute!

Or the Billy Connolly classic 'I'll take my hand off your face!'

“A lazy man’s load”
Carrying way too much at once to avoid a 2nd trip.

“Pretty is as pretty does”
You’re only as attractive on the outside as you are on the inside.

“Gravel Gertie”
A person in need of a good scrubbing.

“A few fries short of a Happy Meal”
Not very smart.

"Not the full shilling"
Scottish version of not very smart.

They say as the start of a piece of gossip, resulted in a quotation from a poem
"Some say the de'el 's deed and buried at Kirkcaldy"

The next line said " some say he's risen agen to daunce the Hielan' laddie"
Some say he has risen again to dance the Hielan' laddie - a folk dance.

Some say the devil is dead and buried at Kirkcaldy.

There used to be a headstone in the kirkyard in Kirkcaldy, said to be the devil's. I don't know whether it or even the old church yard still exists.