Favourite expressions you use a lot (lighthearted)

My mother's variation of your grandmother's saying was 'it's better than a slap round the face with a wet kipper.'

"A poke in the eye with a sharp stick" is the variant I inherited.

This is the first time I've really thought about it!

Let me and my heart take counsel for war is not of life the sum.

“Well this won’t get the bairn a new coat” when you need to stop idling and get on with something.

One of my favourites:-
Not my circus, not my monkeys!

JMcB

One of my favourites:-
Not my circus, not my monkeys!

This is one I'm trying to use more and more these days!

This won’t get the baby a new bonnet ⬆️
It is what it is

My Nanna used to say "On dear, six o'clock and no baby washed!" , meaning that it was getting late.

My DGD, whose first language isn't English, pointed out that I say "Fair enough" a lot.

Ey up.

It’s like Paddy’s market in here.

Nowt as queer as folk.

Two from my parents.

It will all come out in the wash

Worse things happen at sea

Onwards and upwards.

C'est la vie

Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.

It’s a bit of a curate’s egg.
One volunteer is better than ten pressed men (one of my late mum’s sayings which I like).
It never rains but it pours.
“Does it matter?”
Where there’s a Will there’s a relative (another of mum’s).

'To think own self be true' currently as the grandchildren all seem to having to choose 'options' of one sort or another.

It's 'marra te bonny. ' This was a favourite saying of my mother. It means six of one and half a dozen of the other, or, 'it doesn't really matter.'

Also, 'it's like Piccadilly Circus' when complaining about the amount of traffic.

You're a long time dead.

Use a bit of elbow grease.

Should proof read and my phone should stop getting above itself.

'To thine own self be true' obviously.

Another one I grew up with. ‘I love lumpy custard!’ Derivation unknown but said of anyone who was being a doomsayer. Somehow it’s stuck.

How long is a piece of string
We’re a long time dead
You don’t get owt for nowt
What a bundle of bothers

And not forgetting my mum’s favourite ‘it’s like Fred Karno’s circus’

'Put the big light off, it's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!'

No pockets in a shroud! Used to justify any expenditure which might be deemed unnecessary.

My mother used to say we were like 'Casey's Court.'

"Actions speak louder than words"

Each to their own
Back in the day
You’re a long time dead

And a couple I cannot possibly put on here as I’d be banned for life!