Old fashioned expressions you still use.

All these made me remember one we were made to say as children when we had a bag of sweets we offered them to people and said"Paddy would you lick?'.my mum did have Irish roots. Though looking back expressions used by my parent's generation were very derogatory to other countries in the U.K.
One that was meant to refer to Bonnie Prince Charlie marching through Cumbria though I doubt it.
Some come with Tartan trousers,
Some come with nin at ah,
Some come with big bare ar....
Marching through the snow.
and we wonder why the Scots want independence.

My husband says ‘slacks’ for trousers and ‘wireless’ for radio. And as a child my mothers encouraged me to eat food - ‘otherwise your hair won’t curl’. She also said the word ‘smeechy’ when food was burnt or overlooked in the oven and fumes enveloped the kitchen.

My mother used to say to my brother's very tall friend 'Hand me down the moon' which I think is rather lovely. It always crosses my mind when I see someone very tall.

Our version was:

The boy stood on the burning deck.
Did he wash his dirty neck?
Did he heck!

My grandmother would describe a couple, or a pair of friends where one was tall and slim and the other small and round as "mop and bucket". And, for those seeking Mr/Ms Right - " every saucepan has a lid".

EllanVannin

I remember that little ditty Ixion

Amazing EllanVannin.
Delighted at that!

A boy stood on a burning deck, picking his nose like mad....

I remember that little ditty Ixion

hollysteers

I’ll save it for the big film.
After being given a sweet during the B film.

I was always told to keep my sweets for the big picture hollysteers, oh how those dreary B pictures seemed to drag on for ever.

"The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;"

My dear GF used to delight us, much to my mother's distress, by reciting his own version.

The boy stood on the burning deck
His body all a-quiver
He gave a cough
His leg fell off
And floated down the river.

Simple pleasures ...

grandtanteJE65

Mogsmaw

I’d be told I looked like “the wreck of the Hesperus” or “I was away to one side like Gourock” by my mother. I always knew what she meant, but I didn’t under the reference.

Am I wrong in thinking that Gourock is all to one side, because the other side of the town is the River Clyde?

"Straight as a dog's hind leg" said by my mother, usually when I had done the parting in my hair myself. Or indeed of anything else that was " all skew-wiff".

"the Hesperus was the ship in a lengthy poem learned by school-children that began with the words "The boy stood on the burning deck" I haven't a clue who wrote it, but remember it being in our school poetry book.

“The boy stood on the burning deck” was a different poem. The Wreck of the Hesperus started:

It was the schooner Hesperus
That sailed the wintry sea.
The skipper had brought his little daughter
To bear him company.

Approximately that, anyway.

Mogsmaw

I’d be told I looked like “the wreck of the Hesperus” or “I was away to one side like Gourock” by my mother. I always knew what she meant, but I didn’t under the reference.

Am I wrong in thinking that Gourock is all to one side, because the other side of the town is the River Clyde?

"Straight as a dog's hind leg" said by my mother, usually when I had done the parting in my hair myself. Or indeed of anything else that was " all skew-wiff".

"the Hesperus was the ship in a lengthy poem learned by school-children that began with the words "The boy stood on the burning deck" I haven't a clue who wrote it, but remember it being in our school poetry book.

Another similar one. 'Ten o'clock and not a child in the house washed'.

A 'uman pullthrough' my nan's description of a slightly built person.

On describing a small person ( size )---he's/she's only twopenn'orth of copper.

To dad on getting ready to go out---hurry up, you'd be late for your own funeral, as mum would say.

Marydoll

I found this:

What is the origin of the expression: "The Wild Woman of Borneo"? I know it was around as early as the 1940s because I remember it as a child back then, but where did it come from?

I believe this comes from the Victorian circus habit of calling their black show people 'wild' and often attributing their origin to 'Borneo'. They were often displayed wearing only a loin cloth, or similar tropical coverings, wielding a spear, or similar. The crowds were attracted with the call. 'Roll up, roll up, see the wild man of Borneo' The 'wild man of Borneo' was well established as a concept in the UK before WW2, and possibly earlier. The 'woman' version is merely an extension.^

and this image :

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"I'll have your guts for garters."
Awful, when you stop to think what it means.

(My Nanna wasn't Irish but my grandfather was.)

Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet.

Beswitched

I'm not sure if it's just an Irish saying but if someone's running behind on a task:
Look at the time and not a child in the house washed.

My Nanna used to say "Six o'clock and no baby bathed!".

Today's parents don't even do the daily bath routine as it destroys the natural oils on the skin. I see their point, but it was nice to have a routine and a cuddle of a warm clean baby in a nice fluffy towel.

Oh, goodness, I must stop saying that

I shall say that I look as if I've been pulled through a hedge backwards instead.

Oh dear.
Better make sure that one is put firmly out of use.

I found this:

What is the origin of the expression: "The Wild Woman of Borneo"? I know it was around as early as the 1940s because I remember it as a child back then, but where did it come from?

I believe this comes from the Victorian circus habit of calling their black show people 'wild' and often attributing their origin to 'Borneo'. They were often displayed wearing only a loin cloth, or similar tropical coverings, wielding a spear, or similar. The crowds were attracted with the call. 'Roll up, roll up, see the wild man of Borneo' The 'wild man of Borneo' was well established as a concept in the UK before WW2, and possibly earlier. The 'woman' version is merely an extension.^

and this image :

My mum said it, too.