Old fashioned expressions you still use.

If anyone looks miserable, we say He/she has a face like fourpence.

I still 'pull the chain' (although the toilet's had a lever for around 40 years)

I still see what's on the box. (TV)

I don't know if this was peculiar to my family, but when my mum found something or someone funny, she would say, 'It would make a cat laugh'. I still say that to my family.

I remember that too, anno, as “it’s enough to make a cat laugh”, when somebody did something particularly daft.

If you were a bit grumpy my grandad would say - ah diddums did they give you cold cabbage and no gravy.

‘I’m worn out like a dish rag’. Well I certainly am after the brilliant win by Rafa Nadal ???

I used to say “ one dog, one bone” a lot when I was teaching infants and they all wanted me to do something at the same time. It did me chuckle when I heard them say it to each other in the role play corner!

''Never had a wash since the midwife last bathed him''-my grandfather used to say this about a scruffy looking person.

''He or she looks like they have had a bad paper round''-about a person who has a run of bad luck.

all around the wrekin

Kate1949

We still say, if someone has done something in a long winded way, 'They went all around the Wrekin'. Whatever that might mean!

you must have been up to Wales from Birmingham Kate

The Wrekin is an inactive volcano by Shrewsbury. You used to be abe to see it apparently from Staffordshire and the West Midlands (who knows? but there was a very old house in the village I grew up in called Wrekin view) and we were bloody miles away

Gordon Bennet

I could see the Wrekin from my aunt's house, JaneJudge, from right across the plain. 35 miles?

If you can't see The Wrekin it's raining.
If you can see the Wrekin it's going to rain.

well there you go, yoau'll av to gew all around the wrekin

Get off up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
My Nanna used to say ‘there’s no pockets in a shroud if people were being tight.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be (my other gran)

Counterpane.

I call a top bed cover a counterpane. My son said "counterpane" to his partner a lot younger than he, and she was very amused. "Who on Earth talks about counterpanes!"

My granny used to have some good ones:

He'd skin a flea then sell it a vest. (a meanie)
He'll say anything but his prayers. (a liar)
They don't spoil two houses. (a couple who are both annoying)
He's like dot and carry one. (someone with a limp)
I've got a bone in my leg. (an excuse not to do something)

'I'm going to check on the goldfish' (going to the loo)
Turns out that the public lavatories in Rothesay had see-through cisterns, and folks put real goldfish inside. Kids would pester their parents for a penny to see them rise and fall when they pulled the chainn.

When going for lunch: 'going to strap on the feed bag'.
I still use tickety-boo when something is completed tidily.
When someone is weak, 'they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag'.

Nelly's room behind the wallpaper, in answer to. Mum/Nan were are you . It's not as if I live in a big house .

“I was just reading yesterday this list of 50 phrases that are at risk of being lost to the British Language:

www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/the-50-saying-at-risk-of-being-lost-from-our-language-and-what-they-mean?fbclid=IwAR0fNcMNYzvJ1gFJWOWT7QI81oCV0r1PX4vnKQNWYIkZbo85ADp_dCAJw2Q

I certainly still use several of them (but then I'm old!)”

I use an awful lot of these regularly! ?

"Going round Aunt Fanny's garden" - taking the long way round for anything!
Another non PC was one of my dad's "Black as old Harry's mother" for when the sky is dark and stormy
"You look like you've slept in it " which could cover anything - hair, clothing etc , meaning you look scruffy
"With a lick and a promise" usually when either having a quick wash or giving a child a quick wash - think of the time when you were asked to spit or lick your mum's hanky and she used to use it to wipe chocolate or dirt etc off your face !

Spend a penny! My grandson asked where the penny was.

I can remember my lovely Gran saying, "don't burn that light". Meaning turn the light off, even though by that time electricity was in her house, she still referred to it as "burning". xx

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking.
You make a better door than a window.
It's raining cats and dogs