Outdated sayings Do you know any?

As sick as a Blackpool donkey.

"It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's!"

Similar to rubysong's post - Black as Newgate's knocker (Referring to Newgate Prison I believe)

Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire

Black as hell's doorknocker. Usually used to describe my hands when I was little.

I'll go to the foot of our stairs

Fanny's your granny!

And Charley's your aunt!

Bobs your uncle!

"Cor! Love a duck!" Would you? Could you?

'Big girl's blouse' always puzzled me
'I've half a mind to...' is another
My FIL would say 'Suck my bob' which not only drove MIL into an apoplexy it also was never translated as to what or who 'Bob' was!

Its all my eye and Betty Martin (?)
Tell that to the Marines
Right you are
etc etc

Mrs Eggy my Dad was born and brought up on a small farm and they had cows which had to brought in for milking twice a day. He had a very clever Border collie and he trained the dog to bring the cows in on its own.
All Dad had to do was open the field gate and the doors to the cowshed and the dog brought them right in there!

Dad took the milk round their customers in a horse drawn dray with the milk in a churn and measured it out into the customers' own jugs.

She's / He's pots for rags!

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, when amazed by something.

'She's no better than she ought to be' delivered in a scathing tone is never heard any more. I never quiet understood exactly what the bench mark was but it's certainly not applied to anyone these days! Anything goes! I suppose it might have been in the realm of 'all fur coat and no knickers'... lol!

"You'll be waiting till the cows come home."
I suppose the cows had to be fetched? Does anyone know?

Or 'you daft ha'porth' which for many years I thought was spelled apeth.
My grandma was prone to saying she would get vexed with me if I didn't refrain from doing something she considered unacceptable.

The young wouldn't understand 'spend a penny' either.

I think it's been there since the house was built, circa 1910!

Very 'retro' of you Ana they are the in thing just now ( along with roll top baths.)

Well, you still have to 'pull the chain' to flush my upstairs loo, so that saying's not outdated here!