daft sayings

For any disappointment - "Well it's better than a slater up your nose!".....(a woodlouse, I think!)

Also unhelpful when you've lost something: it'll be in the last place you look.

All fur coat and no knickers , or as a colleague once shouted down the corridor at me: red shoes and no knickers. Not true, btw!

MiL used to say God pays debts with no money (Karma!)

When it is going to rain - "Its as black as night over our Bill's mothers"
Don't worry about the tomorrow because "Sufficient for the day are the evils thereof"

My mother (instead of ok or something like that) used to say Right said she so she wrote.

Sitting here won't buy the bairn a new pair of shoes.

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

A blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice.

You'll pass in the dark.

Get out the way and let the dog see the rabbit.

Mil...South Beds.........

'Thinks his body everyself cos his mother's got a mangle.'

'He's got his Sunday go to meeting shoes on.'

'Thats a nice little (car, house, garden) if it doesn't get ant bigger'
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Wisbech....'Looks like a puffy up a stick'

Shy bairns get nowt.

Nosy couldn't come so he sent gillybob

Correction...Piffy up a stick'

and if it doesn't get any bigger, not ant

Come from over by there to over by here, seems to be the thing in our Welsh family.

My friend in Yorkshire makes me laugh when she says “ I’m running round in so many circles I’m going to disappear up my own bum” !! She used to laugh at my southern accent, she said I’m the only person she knows who can call someone a “ b.....d” and it sounds like I’m paying them a compliment !

My Mother in law used to say Many a Mickle makes a Muckle which roughly translated means Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves!

To someone blocking your view: "You'd make a better door than a window!"

Birmingham. Daft as a brush.

the price of something - 'a mere bagatelle' or 'cheap at half the price'

My mums favourite was off to spend a penny, when she went to loo. Took me a time to realise that most public loos charged you a penny.
All fur coat and no knickers was an east end saying my nan often said that.
Yes I remember Charleydead KatyK another one I couldn’t understand. Also if you were screwing up your face was told you’ll stay like that.

You make a better door than a window - to anyone blocking a view or in the way.
Were you born in a barn? - said to anyone leaving the door open.

My aunt used to scratch her back on the doorpost and say, “God Bless the Duke of Argyll” ??? Also to someone blocking a view, “ Your father wasn’t a glazier”.

It's snowing in Paris - petticoat hanging down.

I'm a Scot living in Wales and have heard 'whose jumper is this cardi'. 'He'd no keep a pig in a poke' is one I grew up with.

Dark, cloudy sky referred to as "It's a bit black over Bill's mother's"

grannyticktock I like that toilet expression! My grandfather (Welsh) used to say "I'm going to point Percy at the porcelain".

"Wet behind the ears" for someone inexperienced.
"Shes no oil painting" for someone not considered pretty.
"Where's me tin linings" in a broad Devon accent by my Devonian aunt when my Dad drove too fast!

As another person on here has said, I'm now oftrn hearing my Mum speak when I open my mouth .....

It's as straight as a dog's hind leg. Said in the West of Scotland of anything that was squint or "skew-wiff".

"Their eyes were standing out like chapel hat-pegs" said of my grandmother who came from Edinburgh of people busy minding other peoples' business.

When the sky looks dark my friend, from Norfolk, says that it looks black over Wills mother's house. I have no idea who Will is or was !!