A pint of wallop! (Just for fun).

you cant hold your own water meant you couldn't keep a secret where I was from

‘Has the tide gone out’ if Dads cup of tea wasn’t up to the top.
‘I’m off to spend a penny’ Mum going to the toilet.

My dear Dad, on seeing someone's skinny legs in very tight trousers, would say" Lor', you couldn't bend a pipe cleaner that shape!"

Up the cut in a coal boat was the answer to the question. 'Where have you been?'

If asked to describe something's colour my dad always said"Finnie Haddie pink with a sky blue border'.
We had Chinese wedding cake for pudding on Sundays quite a letdown rice pudding.
DH says when he asked too many questions his mum would reply heliphano hell if I know he thought it was an animal
The one I hated was if you were in a hurry and butting or pushing in you were told 'To hold your water'.
If you looked a bit thin you were told ,'If you stand sideways no one will see you'.

My father, never one to give compliments, if asked if someone looked OK would answer "whose going to stop a galloping horse to look at you"

My MiL told me someone was "just poorly" which I thought meant they had a bit of a cold but next time we saw her she said the person had died, when I said I didn't realise they were that ill the reply was "well I told you they were just poorly" she actually meant they were likely to die soon! She used it a lot more as she (and her freinds) got older but I have never heard anyone else say it.

When asking what we were having to eat for the next meal my mother would reply “two jumps at the cupboard door”.

I always heard the phrase as 'adequate sufficiency'

I only drink weak tea and my Mum calls it

'Water bewitched and tea begrudged !'

If you were a bit pale, a bit under the weather, you would have a face like a cloot

A cloot, for the uninitiated, is the muslin cloth used to steam a pudding.

Windmill pudding--If it goes round you all get a bit

"Look both ways crossing the street "as all the holiday makers walk round with their eyes shut and their mouths open

My mum used to say ' you look like you've been pulled through a hedge backwards' if we came home from school in an untidy state.

Another of my dad's - In answer to the question 'Whats for dinner? the answer was often 'Iffit', short for 'If it goes all round you can have some!' Also SOS - stretch or starve - usually to guests, basically help yourself as no-one else will!

Our phrase was 'ample sufficiency' to mean eaten enough - we clearly weren't elegant!
Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding - for someone considered weedy or a weakling.
Off swinging her handbag - was a phrase my dad used to describe a female neighbour dressed up and heading off to the bright lights of town (though clearly he suspected her motives for going....)
Like gnat's pee - to describe weak tea.

If we stood in the way , ie in front of the TV, my dad would say ‘you make a better door than a window ‘ meaning I can’t see through you .

"Born in a field with the gate left open" was said in the Glasgow area of those who left doors open.

Wud ye look at that? said in a disaproving tone of voice by a grown-up seeing a child doing something naughty, or another grown-up (usually female) "All dressed up like a dog's dinner"

'Hang the expense - give the cat another canary' when in doubt about whether to buy things or not.

When Mum was unsure what she could rustle up for tea during rationing, she would tell me I had "a buttered brick and a worm" coming to my plate. It never did, she always found something!

As soon as we set off for our holiday my dad would say 'I think I can smell the sea'
if you asked him the time he'd look at his watch and say 'half past cheese and a bread knife' no idea what that meant.
mum would say when shopping 'what we haven't got now we'll do wi'out'
if she wanted a treat to eat, 'I fancy something nice and not common'
ahh I do miss my mum and dad

Did you know this was a saying from miners who put the wood in the hole to block the seam of coal they were working on
I believe

When my Grandma was asked what was for dinner it was always 'chairlegs and mangle handles'
Dad, when spotting anyone he thought looked like 'mutton dressed like lamb' would say 'the sights you see when you haven't got your gun!'
Elegant sufficiency was always 'elephant sufficiency' after my childish interpretation.
'You can boil a kettle on that' - when found pouting or, 'if the wind blows your face will stay like that' when frowning or making a miserable face.

Off to the office
When my dad was putting a bet on at the local betting office
Were you born in a barn - if you left the door open

If I asked my grandmother where she was going she would say ‘there and back to see how far it is, if it's too far then I’m not going.’

My Mum took the 'elegant sufficiency' one step further, her phrase when asked if she would like a second helping of something was 'no thank you, I've had elegant sufficiency of that nutritious element!' Always used to make us laugh.

An elegant sufficiency was a phrase used by a maiden aunt of mine. I repeated it one day at the dinner table and the following day my young daughter, when asked if she had had enough of something informed me she had "had elephants and fish for tea". Its a standard joke in the family now.