Sitting there like a bag of nutty slack...

Here are some Liverpool ones from my childhood:-

God bless you and your one eyelash (stuck up)

Same to you with knobs on

I could eat a child's bottom through a cane chair

I could eat a scabby donky

Standing there like one of Lewis's (the department store)

Their eyes were everywhere (nosy)

Sitting there like Venus on a rock bun was what was said in our house. If I pulled my belt in tight round my waist my Mum would say I looked light a sack of potatoes tied in the middle.

I'm sure he means the bird Crossstitchfan.

Kate1949

Someone I know says 'Don't just sit there like a tit in a trance'.

Now THAT really is good!

My last primary school teacher (who was also the HT) used to say: sitting there like cheese at fourpence.

Someone I know says 'Don't just sit there like a tit in a trance'.

My parents used nutty slack to “ bank up” the coal fire every night and then in the morning it would still be smouldering when it would be riddled, a few pieces of firewood, ( sold in wire wrapped bundles) added and then the coal.
A good fire burning well in minutes.
Happy memories.

ExDancer

That takes me back to childhood and the days of coal fires. We'd buy a bag of nutty slack (basically a bag of broken coal nuts the size of gravel and dust) to put on the fire to keep it burning gently for a few hours when you didn't want a blaze. It would sit in the coal shed ready to use when needed, doing nothing, just 'sitting' there waiting.

Yes I remember that too.

Sorry was replying to Clawdy and reference to piffy on a rock bun 🫣

Crossstitchfan

Love it!
My mum used to tell me off for ‘sitting there like lamb and salad’!!
Where she got that from, we never knew!

Yep I remember that one, I think is pithy on a rock bun referring to the pith/peel used.
But is pronounced piffy.
My old mum and aunts would also say ‘sat there like a sack of spuds’.
Also I remember my mum ordering nutty slack coal when we had real fires.

Is that what nutty slack was?

I'm embarrassed to say I thought it must be some kind of sweetie.

That takes me back to childhood and the days of coal fires. We'd buy a bag of nutty slack (basically a bag of broken coal nuts the size of gravel and dust) to put on the fire to keep it burning gently for a few hours when you didn't want a blaze. It would sit in the coal shed ready to use when needed, doing nothing, just 'sitting' there waiting.

I remember "sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun"!

Lamb and salad...
I've never heard that.

I wonder where it originated?

I'm watching Carry On Screaming, and it was said there.

How I missed it before, I don't know, considering how many times I've seen the film.

Love it!
My mum used to tell me off for ‘sitting there like lamb and salad’!!
Where she got that from, we never knew!

It sounds like something the fabulous Ken Dodd would say. I have to say that I loved him, such a clever, erudite & kind gentle man.