Do you have any crazy sayings?

My grandad used to say someone with a rotten voice sounded

like a cow farting through a small tooth comb

I know that Nelliemoser it was just meant to be a joke.

We tend to say Whoops-a-daisy or even just whoops.

"Skin a rabbit for ninepence" When pulling clothes off a small child.

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.

My grandma always said (and still does)

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

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 "

inthefields

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.

standing there like a bell half struck

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

* In the night garden* I think inthefields

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

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

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.

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 .

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.

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!

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

Hi Glassortwo it was Rocking horse shit in our house!

"Rocky horse shit" is a favourite here.

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

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

"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"

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

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 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.