Old fashioned expressions you still use.

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

all around the wrekin

''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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

I haven't heard anyone say, 'By Jove' for many years now. My Grandfather and Great Aunts would say it eg 'By Jove that's a big cabbage' or 'By Jove you suit that colour.'

I use lots of expressions I heard as a child- she/ he would raise mutiny in he'll for someone inclined to cause arguments. A face like a Lugan spade - this one's from N.ireland and means cross or unattractive face. Hard as the hobs of hell for something hard to bite into. Will that pass muster? Meaning is that a good enough job. Is the sun over the yard arm? Is it late enough to have a wee snifter. Too many more to mention.

Some posters have mentioned "spending a penny". When I was pregnant with my first child in the 70s I visited a doctor who had an American trainee with her. My doctor asked how I was feeling and I told her I had a little bit of pain when I spent a penny. The American, with a very puzzled expression, asked the doctor, "When she spends a WHAT?" The doctor explained and we all laughed.

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

The boy stood on the burning deck
Having a game of cricket
The ball bounced up his trouser leg
and knocked off his middle wicket

(sorry to lower the tone)

That should be not doing as you're told obviously!

Also, a most ridiculous question when to doing as you were told. Do you want a slap? Erm... obviously not.

Rushing around like a blue arse fly.
I shall meet myself coming back in a minute.

EllanVannin

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

Ha Ha that's what I say to my lot when they're dithering about before going out anywhere.

Heavens to Murgatroid! Bit like Gordon Bennett.

Also, with apologies The boy stood on the burning deck picking his nose with glee, he rolled it into little balls and flicked it in the sea!

Dead as a door nail = quiet, no atmosphere.
Poor as a church mouse = self explanatory
Happy as Larry = extremely pleased. (Was this after a music hall comic?)
Pot calling kettle black = hypocrisy.

Cack handed = clumsy
Tin pot = poor quality
Fanny Adam's = acting up

My dad's version:

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled
And when his feet were burned off
He stood upon his head.

Sorry!