Has anybody else heard this saying?.

My gran used it! Westbromwich.

I think that is used quite a bit, possibly mainly by older (much older!) people. I have heard it said with the second part phrased as "You're a longtime dead"

Its used in the North East using the same ending as phoenix

Yes i think it's used quite a lot as well. It makes me sad. When my mum was dying I said to her 'try to sleep', to which she replied 'I'll be asleep a long time'.

Yes, common in Manchester, too.

Hi Galen

My mother in law was born spent the first year of her life in Wednesbury but then moved to Sutton Coldfield.

She also used to say some useless thing was ''as useful as an ash tray on a motorbike''.
or '' as useful as a chocolate fireguard''.
or '' as useful as a chocolate teapot''.

I have heard about the fireguards and the teapots elsewhere mut not the motorbike ashtray.

Frank

As a staunch wenesburyite! Neither have I.
Where did she,live in Wednesbury?

She lived in Woden Road.
I better not say any more as the house is still there or it was when I last passed it about a year ago.

Frank

I remember Woden road. I had patients there. I remember one lived to 104 they're a long lived lot in Wednesbury!
Our surgery was at the top of Hydex road.

Hydes!

104 was not my Mother in Law's house.
I have only been through Wednesbury and my mother in law pointed out the house.
I tend to go through Wednesbury about once a year so I will look out for Hydex Road the next time.

Frank

OK Hydes

Thanks

There's a surgery , or was on the corner of wood green rd and Hydes rd that was us. It was called oakswell surgery!

The lady lived to be 104 not the house number. There were Woden rds N S E and W .

I have heard the phrase relating to ashtrays on motor bikes!

There was a college in Woden Road South.
I think it was built in the 70's and it has now been demolished.

Frank

Another expression I have heard about a useless worker is '' He would be good at packing glider engines''.

Frank

I've heard all those.

Anyone heard or use:

"As rare as rocking horse poo"

Like looking for hen's teeth.

I've heard all the above but the version of Nina's that I heard was not quite so polite!

Same as Phoenix

Yes nina I've heard that one.

Galen I've heard that one as 'as rare as hen's teeth'

One I heard recently: "It was as much use as an inflatable dart board"!!

I certainly grew up with this saying, plus another favourite of my Grandmother's was 'Full of the ills that nobody dies of'. A response to anybody over-egging a minor ailment.

Two of my DHs sayings were "madder than a wet hen" to describe an angry person,

to tease someone who was being mean he would say "there are no pockets in a shroud".

If he was trying to descibe a remote place to anyone it was "about three miles past where Jesus lost his sandals"