Do you have any crazy sayings?

Madder than a wet hen

I didn't come up the Avon on a push bike (I'm not stupid)

The thing in Annie's room was usually behind the clock, too.

I think sweet Fanny Adams was a real girl who was murdered and cut up.

Oooohhhh! Have just googled that and found an account in Wikipedia and another on Hantsweb

Faffing about like a fart in a colander that doesn't know which hole to go out of. A version of "a blue arsed fly.

The Scottish version of SS is:
I didn't come up the clyde in a wheelbarrow.

Standing there like a piffy up a stick

Thinks his body everyself cos his mother's got a mangle (one of my mils)

Black over Will's mothers (when it looks like rain)

Enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers

Nice little (car, house, dog) if it doesn't get any bigger. Last four my dear departed MiL's and the first was my father's

Looks like hes sucking a lemon

Looks like hes chewing a wasp

Better than a slap round the fact with a wet kipper

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

When someone passes wind my friend's husband (Scottish) says: Tear me off half a yard of that!

We say do you think I have just come up the Tyne on a banana boat!

Did anyone check out the link I posted at the end of page one?

Some of those sayings are very rude indeed.

If he fell in the Clyde, he'd come up with a salmon in his mouth.

Like throwing a sausage up the mersey tunnel,

Gillybob- I opened that and I knew a lot but there were also many that I had never heard of. I never realised how many there were.

Yes Charleygirl some of them were enough to make your eyes water too!

As popular as a fart in a spacesuit...

(sarcastically) As funny as woodworm in a cripple's crutch.

Like a fart in a collander

Bent as a nine bob note (very un- PC) but an old one.

Daft as a barrel load of monkeys

Mad as a box of frogs

If the wind changes you will stay like that

When I was teaching and at the end of my tether I used to exclaim "Gordon Bennett!" I found this packed as much punch as swearing, but made sure I didn't get the sack!

I often wondered where that came from vegasmags who was Gordon Bennett ? .

There was an orthodontist at Newcastle Dental Hospital called Gordon Bennett Gillybob but I don't think it was him
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gordon-bennett.html
It seems he was quite a character:
"It is reported that at the 1877 New Year's party held by his fiancee's father, he became so drunk that he mistook the fireplace for a toilet and urinated in it in front of his hosts and their guests. Whether or not that story is true is now difficult to verify. It is certainly the case that the marriage didn't go ahead and that the Mays weren't best pleased with Bennett - as this piece from The Perry Chief, January 1877, indicates:

"James Gordon Bennett was publicly horse-whipped this morning, by Frederick May, brother of the girl to whom Bennett was engaged to be married."

Crikey, just imagine achieving such long lasting fame through that.

My ex used to exclaim "Bloody Norah!" when something surprised or shocked him. I know it's quite a common utterance, but who on earth was that Norah?

My head's in a shed -( when in a muddle)

Up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire (going up stairs to bed)

Let the dog see the rabbit!(move out of the way)

Going around Swansea to get to Cardiff (taking the long way round)

Bread and pull it round the table (when I asked what was for tea, this was often the answer)

My mum used to say "She's got ha'penny on erself!" meaning the person is full of themselves/ think they're better than you/ vain.

Keep your hand on your h'penny (when girl going out with lad)

Don't get your knickers in a twist

All talk and trousers

(I feel that my world has just become a long long list of sayings) I bet there are more in the dark recesses of my mind.

I think we have found "our man" janeainsworth all reference to Gordon Bennett do seem to point in his direction! I wonder what he would be thinking to know that his name is used in this way today?

I wonder who Blimey O'Reilly was?

Gilly shouldn't you be getting ready to go to work

We were surprised when on holiday in Menton, in the south of France to find a Quai Gordon Bennett, so he got around a bit!