Unusual sayings

A mouth like the Mersey Tunnel. Used in the Liverpool and Chester area.
I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking. Yorkshire and Lancashire. Used by my mother.
Fine words butter no parsnips. Also used by my mother.

I have also heard 'all around Will's mother's / or Robin Hood's barn' in the Midlands.
One of my favourites from a Scottish relative is 'pan loafy' for someone posh ie: could afford the more expensive 'pan' bread.

As a child I often heard 'san ferry ann' as being a bit careless or not worrying about something, and it was applied as if a girl's name (often I am sorry to say to me) as a 'san ferry Ann'.
When I was practicing my French, my mum heard me and said 'oh you're talking about something that you're not bothered about', and I realised she had heard me say 'ca ne fait rien' translated as 'doesn't matter'.
We were both delighted, and thought it must have come over during WW1 as that was when my grandparents first remembered hearing it. However, I only use it occasionally now, and try to do so as a positive, not the critical way I heard it used!

As thick as two short planks in our house.

Also, along the same lines "You're like a cow with a pitchfork" (my mum watching me using tools, scissors, pens)
"Like a tit in a trance."

Oh yes, ‘thick as a plank’ I remember well, and my dad going to see a man about a dog. When we were young, we wondered why he never brought one home.
Did you ever look for a patch of blue sky ‘big enough to make a sailor’s trousers’ as a sign that the weather was clearing up?

My Dad, years ago on a family holiday, shouted across the road to my Mum as he headed to the gents toilets:
"I'm just going to hold my own!"
She was mortified ?

My Mil used to say when asked what is for tea 'hair pie and windy pudding' My Grandmother often said 'I can dance and boil cabbage' if someone was bragging about their talents.

'A run round the table and a duck under'. My mother would often say this when asked what was for tea.

Witsend we said it a bit different “it’s looking black over Wilfs wife’s mother’s “ I read years after that it’s a reference to William Shakespeare and should have been Will not Wolf
If my granddad was going to the pub he always told me he was “off to see a man about a dog”
And if anyone was having a moan about something he’d say
“It’s better than a smack across the belly with a wet fish”
Yes my Nan and grandad used to go the bottom of the stairs
(Leicestershire folk)
Someone a bit uneducated was “sixpence short of a shilling” or “thick as a plank”

If my grandparents were asked to explain what something was for and they didn’t know they’d say ‘It’s a wigwam for winding up the sun’. Goodness knows where that saying came from and I’ve never heard it used outside my own family.

My father used to say when asked where he was going “to Timbuktu and back again”.

‘He’s as green as he’s cabbage looking’
As said by my Nanna.

My Grandad used to say” well I’ll go to t foot of our stairs” when he heard about something new or surprising. He was Lancashire born and bred. Another favourite if we did something he didn’t approve of behaviour wise was”raise yer broughtings up “

MissAdventure is obviously making a reference known to rural folk with regard to chickens I think ?

MissAdventure

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

Oooh er missus!

'I don't care what they call me as long as they call me for my dinner.'
I used to hear this expression in the early 60's. It was used by a middle aged man from Burnley in Lancashire.

Infinity2. I’m sorry.
Up here in Glasgow this has been the sunniest year I remember for ages. It’s 33C on our patio! 23C in our front garden. We are inside preparing to go out. Hopefully it’s cooler on the east coast where we’re heading.

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)

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

Espee - it’s raining here ?

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 :-)

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

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

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.

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

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.