Do you have any crazy sayings?

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

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

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'.

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!

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

I wonder who Blimey O'Reilly was?

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?

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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."

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

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!

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

As popular as a fart in a spacesuit...

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

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

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.

Like throwing a sausage up the mersey tunnel,

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

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.

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!

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

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