Saying a saying

LOL I got it as a postcard years ago I am Pisces, so it is perfect , between you and me and the lamp-post.

Brahumbug

My gran would say of a blunt knife "you could ride bare arsed to London on that"

This has to be my favourite Brahumbug. She must have been a great character!

An Irish girl I worked with described her cup of tea as " strong enough to trot a mouse over".

….Or like a bulldog chewin a thistle!

Granmarderby10

She (could be he though) looks like she’s been chewing on broken glass and sucking on 🍋

My brother-in-law used to say an aunt looked like she'd been sucking on a wasp 🐝

If I was untidy - usually just home from school - “oh, you’re like Lipton’s orphan” or “you look like you’ve nobody belonging to you”. But if I was tidy “you’re like pins in paper”. My mother was quite a tidy person, did you guess?!

i knew someone whose parents objected to the saying,
to kill two birds with one stone,
as they said it encouraged violence.
instead, they would say,
to feed two birds with one hand.
i think it was something to do with
the peace pledge union.

AussieGran59

welbeck

one which i rather like, never heard when young:
<well i'll go to the foot of my stairs.>
i think it's a northern saying ?
i find it quite charming. must try to use it.

Fascinated by this one but I don’t understand it, welbeck. Please enlighten me?

I've heard it too
Not sure what it means exactly but anyone who knows it knows what it means iyswim 😂
It means you're astonished about something.

On a stairs theme - I was sent up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire.

Were you born in a barn?
You look as if you've been pulled through a hedge backwards
You're like a bull in a china shop

Obviously exasperated my mother no end!

His/her lift doesn't go to the top floor.....
( stupidity)

Cough it up if might be a gold watch.
(When someone is coughing )

He's going all around the Wrekin
(A long-winded explanation or a long journey)

Gordon Bennett if you are shocked or surprised.

Donkey's years [meaning a long time] My Scottish husband at the time refused to believe this was a saying.

Flogging a dead horse. I wouldn't say that now, would change as the 2 birds have done.

Cat got your tongue.

Frog in your throat

Blimey

Barking mad

Knickers in a twist.

nuttier than a squirrel's poo.

Are you having a laugh? (meaning) Are you taking the piss?

Thanks all of you,very funny and my last one is.... horses sweat,men perspire and ladies only glow.