Unusual sayings

About as much use as a chocolate tea pot!

Hilarious Esspee! Mum used to say when sister and I were particularly giggly, "You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl!" How does a pudding crawl?

I must shoot the crow eg I must go now

He hasn't enough brains to blow his hat off!

When, as children, we asked my Nan where someone/something was she used to reply "up in Annie's room under the wallpaper". Never understood that one!
Evidently (according to Google) it came from wartime slang.

I love the Irish saying that a cup of tea is "strong enough to trot a mouse on".

If something is too loose a fit, courtesy of an ex.
"It's like a cock in a sock".

Whenever I asked my father what he was doing/making he would say " I'm making a gugar for a wigwam "

One I’d never heard until via a forum (maybe this one) is, ‘It’s looking black over Bill’s mother’s’ - meaning dark clouds in the distance.

I’ve heard that it originated not far from Stratford on Avon (the Bill referring to Wm. Shakespeare) but how true that is I have no idea. But I like it!

“I’ll be glad when I’ve had enough of this.” (Said when doing something necessary, tedious and enduring.)

Referring to our beloved golden retriever “if brains were chocolate, he wouldn’t have enough to fill a Smartie”
Or referring to someone you know vaguely “her cat ran in our passage”.

My Mum used to say she'd had a "clashy back end" of a day

I'm not sure what it meant but I'm sure I've had a few days like that!

When my ex partner was angry he always said "Pigs in fields".

My mum
He's as good as a one legged
man in an arse kicking contest

Nell8

I love the Irish saying that a cup of tea is "strong enough to trot a mouse on".

Love that! ? I might use it next time MrB makes my tea too strong.

You need a South Yorkshire accent for this one, which my grandad used to say: "Let's 'ave a looook at these 'ere 'herrins 'eads." Used when you are presented with a problem that needs to be studied before whatever it is can be sorted out.

Ahm bloody arrad, I’m bloody tired. Lincolnshire saying.

My Dad used to say he was going to see a man about a dog when he went out. For years I thought he was going to bring a dog home.

I was going to mention ‘it’s looking black over Bill’s mothers but Witzend already has. I first heard it from my husband’s family and they are from The Black Country, not that far from Shakespeare country.

My mum - 'she has a face like a frozen mop' i.e. bad tempered and grumpy looking

My friend - ' I was sweating on't top line' - which means 'I was panicking'. I am from Lancashire and I think it was something to do with the cotton mills

My MIL - 'Don't just stand there like Emma Lemon'. I think it should be 'like a lemon' but my MIL is like Hilda Baker when it comes to sayings

Someone not blessed in the looks department ( me for example )
They have a face like a robber’s dog !

A girl I knew used to say "get the sen felt" in South Yorkshire accent meaning don't be so self important or over sensitive.

I've had times when I've wanted to use it :-)

Espee - it’s raining here ?

My ex was very mean and someone once commented that he " could peel an orange in his pocket "

He charges like a wounded bull for being overcharged.
Buzzing around like a blue arsed fly for a hyperactive person
Fair suck of the sauce bottle
and there’s the very old one where a young randy male was described as a wombat (eats, roots and leaves)