A pint of wallop! (Just for fun).

So many of these! One my husband used that he got from his father, was; "a rasher of wind and a fried snowball" to mean nothing at all. I've never heard anyone else use it.

As a pub landlady I was always amused when a local lady would head to the Ladies saying “ I’m just going to shake my lettuce”, I’d never heard it before or since.

Such a lot of these I still use today!!

"You're a good act but you're on too long" - my Dad when I was practising at home for a school play or concert.

I say “up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire “. Itt used to confuse my kids and now my Grandkids….. as they all …in their turn have shouted…..”but we live in Bedfordshire”. They’ve all spent ages when little ‘looking’ for a wooden hill when out in the cars!!!

When we enquired what was for tea my dad would pipe up, a scabie horse between two mouldy mattresses ? luckily he was always wrong

"If you had another brain it'd be lonely " was one we used to use for someone doing something silly. "As daft as a brush" is another one.

My Dad always used to say, "Just off to see a man about a dog..." as he went out the front door in the evening. When I was little, I lived in hope that he would return with a puppy in a box...

As I grew older, I realised that he always returned stinking of beer and fags....

If my Mum had had enough playing with my children she would say she had "a bone in her leg". It took them a good few years to realise that every one had bones in their legs.

Dad called clothes hangers 'shoulder sticks' and the loft or attic a 'cock loft'. Language eh?

When we were children, if we dropped something my gran would say 'you've got hands like feet'. I still say that to myself if I'm clumsy.

My aunty was.always "going to see a man about a dog".

We used to tease my lovely Dad mercilessly. He once saw an old school friend in our home town many many years ago and uttered the phrase, “by Jove, it’s Harry Bealey.” He never lived it down and was used routinely by the whole family to denote surprise. Lovely days ?

I had a friend, much older than me, who after breakfast would say I’m going to turn my bike round. At first this really discombobulated me because we were not going out on a bike ride and anyway I can’t ride a bike. I was then told, discreetly, that was his way of letting us know that he was going to spend some time in the loo!

GrannyGravy13

I can remember my maternal Gran saying up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire as she took me upstairs to bed.

We use this one too, much to the confusion of Gc's as we live in Bedfordshire!

Also 'going all round the houses and back down the lane' used by my Gma to describe a verbose neighbour.

My DMiL, faced with a blunt knife would always say, 'So blunt, you could ride bare-a**ed round the moon on it.

Waiting for the bus, my mother thought she was hilarious with 'Hereeeeeeeee it isn't.' ?

If a knife or scissors were blunt my mother would say they wouldn’t cut butter.

Said by Dad - 'Just goint to point Percy at porcelain'
Uugh!

My Mum used to say: Six of one and half a dozen of another ( when both sides were at fault). You look like you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards ( when we forgot to brush our hair!!)

I look like the wreck of the Hesperus……

Grannybags

'You make a better door than a window' said by my Mum if you were blocking her view!

I still say that a lot

My DMiL, faced with a blunt knife would always say, 'So blunt, you could ride bare-a**ed round the moon on it.'

Gongoozler that is exactly what she used to say about her DS - my DH - and I completely agree with her. He never, ever, shuts anything, doors, drawers, cupboards, or puts anything away.

'An elegant sufficiency' was part of my childhood, also 'empty vessels make the most noise' if we children were too noisy.

Were you born in a barn? When someone left a door open.

My dad called emulsion paint wallop. I think it came from the brand Walpamur.