Sitting there like a bag of nutty slack...

Eyes like chapel hat pegs!

If brains were gunpowder, he'd not have enough to blow his hat off.

Baggs

My last primary school teacher (who was also the HT) used to say: sitting there like cheese at fourpence.

Oh my mum used to say that to me too! (She was from Lancashire)

Like a fart on a gimlet.

I remember my parents buying nutty slack. I think it was cheap and pushed by the government as satisfactory coal.

HA HA HA! I'll remember that, it's hilarious!

HA HA HA!

If someone was bow legged, people here would say 'He couldn't stop a pig in an entry'.

She could eat an apple through railings.

Fanny in a fit. Another of mams sayings.

A pig in a poke.

I am from Lancashire and my mother and MIL had the following saying:

I was standing there like Emma Lemon or Don't just stand there like Emma Lemon - meaning feeling like/being a spare part

or

Replace Emma Lemon with 'one of Burton's' - as in Burton's dummies from the clothes shop

I was sweating on't top line - meaning I was worried or panicking . I think this comes from the cotton mills

She had a face like a frozen mop - I think my mother made this one up herself. She could be very witty.

I heard many a time if someone was cross eyed, one eye going to the shop and the other coming back with the change lol

My gran would often say if you were lazing about on the couch, you're lying there like a store dug! She also used to say, if we were being a bit lazy, I've seen more life in a tramp's vest. she was hilarious.

A face like a bucket of smashed crabs.

I read that in a novel, once.

A mouth like a crack in a pie.

Babs, I defend the use of the phrase "neither use nor ornament ". I have worked with him and her occasionally.

Or, sitting there like cheese at fourpence

Like 1o'clock half struck😅

We always had a bucket of nutty slack in the coal house!!! I can see my mum now, sweeping up the coal dust and all the little pieces off the coal house floor and shovelling it into the bucket! A shovel full of it would be thrown into the back of the fire to dampen it down and keep it burning without ferocious flames, thereby extending the life of the burning coals!

What was coke, then?
Was that nutty slack?

He is so mean he wouldn't give you the drippings of his nose

If you didn’t get stuck in, mixing with others a Midlands saying was “don’t sit there like a Fairy on a Rock cake”.

MissAdventure

What was coke, then?
Was that nutty slack?

my memory is that coke was an industrially processed fuel, kind of rendered coal, with the gas taken out, or was it oil, something that flared and flamed bright in the grate.
coke was produced for enclosed boilers or back boilers as the ignition point was higher.
sometimes a gas poker was used to get it going.
that was quite posh, and i think it occurred to people that if you had a gas supply near the grate, you might as well fit a gas fire, if you could afford it and were not in rented accomm.
a gas fire was so much easier; not sure of the running costs though, by comparison with an open fire.
nutty slack was low-grade, sweepings-up, bits and coal dust.
useful for backing up a fire, as described above.
i never heard of anyone starting a fire with it, wouldn't seem adequate.
but my knowledge is partial.
nice to remember though.

coke was to coal what pringles are to crisps.
processed and pressed out into an imitation of the original, in regular size and shape.