Towards More Picturesque Speech

My late MiL sometimes described other women as "all fur coat and no knickers".
I never knew exactly what she meant, but it was definitely not a compliment!

My MiL used to describe arrogant men as all mouth and trousers.

Am old aunt of mine when observing someone whom she thought was trying to act the ‘big I am’ would say ‘put a monkey on a horse and it thinks it’s a bloody general.’

My mum would say "She sat there like Piffy on a rock bun".
Never found out who Piffy was!

Clawdy

My mum would say "She sat there like Piffy on a rock bun".
Never found out who Piffy was!

She sat like Patience on a monument?

On leaving the house and being asked where you were off to the sarky and evasive reply was often "I'm going there and back again to see how far it is"

I door left open, ‘you weren’t born in a barn’.

When I lived in Scotland during the 1970s I had a neighbour (with a husband and two sons) who, regarding the amount of laundry she had to deal with, would often say she had enough ironing to frighten the French.