Sayings no longer heard.

A fine kettle of fish!

as nice as ninepence

as bold as brass

as dead as a door nail

as daft as a brush

That's my quota of old sayings for tonight, my brain needs to reboot.

Adam's ale (water)
Taking Shanks' pony (to go somewhere on foot)
All fur coat and no knickers
The rag 'n' bone man's coming
Pleased as Punch

Once had one but the wheels fell off.
Looks like a piffy up a stick.
Black over Will's mother's
Mad as a box of frogs.
Daft as lites.
Clumsy Clot.
Thinks his body every self cos his mother's got a mangle (my late MiL's favourite saying)
Up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire

Let the dog see the rabbit I can still hear my grandfather saying it.

Love the mangle one Flower.

Do you remember in the 60s when we called friends 'Petal' ?

A nose like a blind cobbler's thumb...

Well, I'll go to sea...

Bobbing about like a fourpenny ham-bone..

Enough blue sky to make an old man a pair of trousers.

It would do a blind man good to see it. [On seeing a small blemish, mark or stain.]

With acknowledgements to departed MIL.

queer as a nine bob note

as right as rain

your eyes are bigger than your tummy [said to me a lot when being greedy.]

going to see a man about a dog

You'll be right as ninepence.

let the dog see the rabbit.

nice little thing if it doesn't get any bigger (about any item) another of MiLs

Sunday go to meeting clothes (MiL again)

nutty as a fruit cake

My giddy aunt.

Bobs your uncle, Fannys your aunt.

My Mum used to say "I,le eat hay wi a donkey (if such and such a thing happens); and; Shine a light!(this phrase was used to display her exasperation) more acceptable than swearing.

Come to think of it,(now that I am thinking of it);we, as the older generation, and not using very much swear words, as they seem to do , especially on telly; ought to encourage the use of all such old fashioned phrases. If the young heard them much more often, maybe the use of foul expletives would diminish,eh?

A sandwich short of a picnic
Sharp enough to cut yourself.

I still use a lot of the other sayings mentioned in the thread. I don't swear but use other words instead - such as 'fudge' and 'sugar'. You can probably guess what swear words they replace

of course kids have translated into the modern version '1 can short of a 6-pack'

get back in the knife drawer!

you and who's army?

mutton dressed as lamb

as good as gold

'One volunteer is worth ten pressed men' said often by my father when there were chores to be done.

I used it at work recently to an audience rather younger than I am. I then had to explain what a 'pressed man' was....they looked at me like this