Old fashioned expressions you still use.

Like a craw lookin oot a whinbush - when you look a total mess, esp your hair.
Lazy as a Mahone sodjer - someone who is very idle. Have no idea who Mahone was or why his soldiers were so lazy.
Would wrestle a bear for a shilling - someone very tight fisted.
Bully for you and your short shirt - good for you (when someone is being a bit boastful).

Spuds, butties, barm cakes, orange juice (before orange concentrate this was orange squash).
As thick as pig tish (to do with intelligence not cinsistency)
Tish.
Daft as a brush
Mardy (whiny)
Nesh (sensitive to cold)
A proper little madam.
Why (Y) is a crooked letter and you can’t straighten it.
For crying out loud (in frequent every day use especially at this time)
As much use as a chocolate tea pot
Couldn’t organise a pi## up in a brewery
A sandwich short of a picnic
Not the brightest button in the box
Bent as a nine bob note
As ugly as sin
It’s like the Marie Celeste in here
Born in a barn
Make a better door than you would a window.
Wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole
Wouldn’t trust him/her to the end of the road( or as far as I could throw him/her)
Clodhoppers
Scaredy cat
It’ll never get well if you pick it
Went off like a rocket
Take a hike
I’ve been there and back again to see how far it is
Like it or lump it
Etc etc etc!

I always say ‘pull the chain’ instead of flush the toilet

What does that mean?

I used to Godfrey Knighten

Godfrey knighten

Remembered another
Let the dog see the rabbit
Means stop crowding round, let everyone have a look I think!

Germanshepherdsmum

Yes I’d forgotten that! We were horrid little kids weren’t we?!

It's lucky we grew up into such lovely people, really.

Actually I don’t use it - wouldn’t dare nowadays! - but ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ just came to mind.

And ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ came to mind yesterday, re a neighbour who’s giving us trouble at the moment.

Yes I’d forgotten that! We were horrid little kids weren’t we?!

A slap and a kick for being so quick!
That was mean people's response.

Bridgeit

Pinch punch
The first of the month
No return
White rabbits….
?

Oh yes! School days and real pinches!

I always say ‘pull the chain’ instead of flush the toilet

happycatholicwife I wouldn’t be saying ‘Fanny over teacup’ if you come to the UK. Fanny has a very different meaning here. ??

Pinch punch
The first of the month
No return
White rabbits….
?

Anyone else brought up with saying ‘Rabbits’ first thing on the 1st of the month? Found myself doing it again this morning.

My husband says "smart as a carrot" but he's from oop north!
In Leicester, we say: "rare as rocking horse sh!t" or "give us a croggy?"

Love British expressions. I say drug through a knothole backwards, fanny over teacup, what in Sam Hill, drunk as a lord (USA).

I use so many of these, and so many on that list!
Grandmother used to say “Make sh*t of one and sugar of the other” for favouritism
DF said “Take your finger out” for get a move on (there’s another). Had no idea it was rude till DH pointed it out.
“Spit and sawdust” for an old-fashioned rather rough pub.
“Raining stair rods”
DM “I Esgob Dafydd!” (Welsh for “To Bishop David”) if she was really riled. No idea who Bishop David was.
“Not quite 16 ounces to the pound” for somebody not quite right in the head. Later heard “Not quite the full shilling” when I worked in Scotland

Speaking of flies down, 'you've left the barn door open'.

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick... i.e. could be worse

My Gran used to write,
'Many happy returns of the day' in birthday cards.
I find I write that sometimes too, as a wee nod to her

Looks like a bombs hit it! Or as my children thought all one word bombsitit and wondered what it was.
Paddle your own canoe
Husband says five and twenty past or five and twenty to the hour

Put your slippers on or you'll catch your death. (grandma)
Woe betide you. From the Nuns at my primary school.

My nanna used to say "she's she's got all her cough drop" meaning a person had their wits about them. It's a long road that has no turning. Meaning things can suddenly happen in your life. You're as much in the muck as your are in the mire.