Do you have any crazy sayings?

Roy Hudd's autobiography is called A Fart in a Collander - my mother used that as well as in and out '...like a fiddler's elbow' and '...like a dog at a fair'.

Thank you Jane for your fulsome research on Gordon Bennett . I shall say it even more forcefully now I know who he was!

My GD always giggles when she tells me some news and I say 'well I'll go to the foot of our stairs'

My grandma also used to reply "bread and pull it" when asked what was for tea. I was interested to see "piffy on a stick" (some way back in this discussion) as I was at uni in the 60s with a girl from Cheshire who used to say "standing there like piffy on a rock bun". Never come across it again.

When I first starting working for the Police, I first came across "shed collapse" meaning " a bit of a mental breakdown" and , of course I asked someone about his shed ........

My favourite saying is 'about as much use as a fart in a colander' but only among friends!

"as useful as piffy on a rockbun! and I would be delighted if anyone can tell me where that comes from, or what on earth Piffy may be!! I use it, picked it up from my grandmother .... but have no idea of the origin

"in and out like a fart in a colander"
"don't cry, eat your cake"
"all mouth and no trousers"

oh, I forgot a real favourite: " as much use as a chocolate teapot"

grandimars :-)) we cross posted with the exact same phrase and I have never heard it from anyone else before!! how weird is that !!

"Rocky horse shit" is a favourite here.

Hi Glassortwo it was Rocking horse shit in our house!

I think Piffy on a rock is a ¿Lancashire? version of Patience on a Monument (smiling at grief). Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

In my last year at primary school the HT was our class teacher and if he told someone to do something and they didn't get on with it smartish, he'd say: Don't sit there like cheese at fourpence! Get a move on!

inthefields and Bags, I have just googled the phrase and Patience on a monument seems likely, but nobody seems to know who or what Piffy was.

My Geography teacher (you know him, the guy with the tweed jacket and patches on his elbows) used to bellow;

sit down, shut up, get started,or move before every lesson .

Just thought of a rude one;

He just stood there like a spare pr**k at a wedding.

Must wash mouth out with soap and water. No offence intended.

That's funny my son sent a text yesterday with the line 'as rare as rocking horse pooh' hadn't heard that till then'!

I wonder where "ups-a-daisy" came from?

* In the night garden* I think inthefields

standing there like a bell half struck

when asked where she was going for her holidays my mother would say "windowview at ourgate"

Gillybob - this did make me laugh as I tried to picture my grandmother watching 'In The Night Garden'
She might have said "oopsadaisy" (and I have even heard "oopsie-idee" as a variation) ....but the expression has been around since well before Logie Baird, I think.

inthefields

My mother used to say " don't stand there like 1 o'clock half struck " I was a bit of a daydreamer.
Father, when asked what he was making in his workshop, " a gu-gar for a wigwam "

My grandma always said (and still does)

Oh I can't get up, I've got a bone in my leg

Gillybob "Oops a daisy" from In the night garden? I remember that being said for as long as I can remember, at least the early 1950s. Its what you say to a little child that has tripped over.