Sayings no longer heard.

Many a slip twixt cup and lip

You can wait till the cows come home -

Take the bull by the horns

If the cap fits, wear it.

My Mum's favourite; 'Never let the sun go down on your wrath.

Pull the other one ...

I still say this today. My son gives me an odd look every time I say it. As if he's never heard it before.

Listening to an Buddy Holly track the line "oops a daisy" registered as a saying rarely heard nowadays.

Do you remember baby last September
How you held me tight each and every night
Well, oops-a-daisy, how you drove me crazy
But I guess it doesn't matter any more

When people are being indecisive my brother-in-law says 'don't just stand there like a tit in a trance'

Even "it's the best thing since sliced bread" is "old hat now"

He's got more brass than brains! (More money than sense.

A fart in a collander

When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was very shy and introverted and didn't keep up with the latest fashions like the rest of us. Someone said to me one day 'why do you hang around with that wet lettuce'.

About "You can lead a horse to the water but you can't make it drink" The comment of a friend on some unsuccessful matchmaking was "You can take a horse to the water, but a pencil must be lead"

Reading the sayings so far listed took me back a few years when these sayings were everyday stuff on everybody's lips.
Here are few that may not be so well known, but were in common useage,
He's as full of trouble as maggots full of meat.
Same meat different gravy.
Put a Begger on horse back and he will ride to the devil, Old soldiers never look behind,
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
You can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink.
My view is that one we have changed so much that are now frightened to speak for fear of saying something that some twisted mind somewhere will claim is offensive, and social media has a lot to answer for. It has taken a lot of the colour and humour out of our lives.

Fur coat and no knickers!

Couldn't organise nookie in a knocking shop. (variation on booze-up in a brewery)

If we had any ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had any eggs. (when the cupoboard was bare)

Little pitchers have big ears. (when discussing grown-up things in front of children)

"Black as Egypt's night" - courtesy of Great Aunt Margaret
"Two bricks and a hat"- My Gran`s description of a small person
"Tell that to the marines" -My Granny expressing disbelief
"Its all my eye and Betty Martin"- Granny again
"Bob`s your uncle, Fanny`s your aunt and your Granny`s in the RAF" - goodness knows where that came from

"Queer" now there's a word that has changed it's usage over the years, used to be :-

That's queer == a little odd
I'm feeling queer == I'm feeling ill

My Dad used it often in these contexts.

Now it's a derogatory term for a homosexual.

Nowt queer as folk
Thinks he's the Bees Knees
You'll be right as rain

Same difference.
Goose pimples.
Heat lightning.

The young 'uns look at me like I'm crazy when I say them.

A bit longer than a tick pompa as in "just a tick"

Stone the crows!

Driving home this evening, past a "road closed" sign, Mrs Pompa commented "that road's been closed for yonks".

So how long is a "yonk"

Put wood in t'hole!

If you can't fight, wear a big hat...

Well, I'll go hopping away...

Tight as Dick's hat-band...

Hold very tight, please... (remember bus-conductors?)

All mouth and trousers...

Time to hit the hay - bedtime

Black as hell's door knocker.
Queer (as in odd) as a Cleethorpes donkey.
Cutting ninepence to nowt (When a sewing project ends in disaster)

My aunt always smashed her finished boiled egg with her spoon "to save a sailor from drowning"

If we had cream we could have strawberries and cream if we had strawberries.

From my dear late Fil.