Favourite expressions you use a lot (lighthearted)

I think I misread this and gave my late mother's expressions.
My own ?
Stone the crows
AmI right ?
We must press on and rise above it.

Wit not with. Grrrrrr!

My gran used to say ‘ A blind man would be pleased to see it’, when something one was doing didn’t go quite right. A favourite one of mine, as I am often in that position

DH has said 'It can't be beyond the with of man' twice already this morning.

I think it might be grounds for divorce.

Not an expression I use, but a bus conductor at the bus stop near my house years ago
“Anyone else for the boneyard?” (Stop near cemetery gates).

Daddima

*Scribbles*, my saying for a treat or indulgence is, ‘ To Hell wi’ poverty, put another pea in the soup’, or ‘ gie the cat the canary’.

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I once heard one of my favourite actors ,
Kevin Whately describe someone as not so green as cabbage looking .
I think that it was in Lewis .
I've loved that expression ever since .

“May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead” - instead of “cheers”!
“May you live long and die all shapes” ditto!
Like a lost f**t in a thunderstorm - to somebody who is useless.

Shel1951

Jaysus if he eats that he'll fart fire and drive cows....my irish mammy

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My dad used to say “ you’re captain of the all is lost brigade” when things weren’t going well.

Different strokes for different folks.
Same old, same old.

Scribbles, my saying for a treat or indulgence is, ‘ To Hell wi’ poverty, put another pea in the soup’, or ‘ gie the cat the canary’.

There’s a shower in the glen.

When the children were getting a bit boisterous meaning there will be tears soon!

Jaysus if he eats that he'll fart fire and drive cows....my irish mammy

We used to say “what goes around comes around “
“As much use as a chocolate fireguard”
I have always driven older cars . A neighbour once said to me “third class riding is better than first class walking “
I often repeated that one to my children

Sallywally1

I forgot, another favourite of mine is

What comes around, goes around. I have personal reasons to quote this!

Yes I say that too but can’t remember it being passed down by my parents.
Another saying that I can’t remember them saying but I say a lot is ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’.

Loving reading these i can hear my (late) parents saying most of them! However when I use any now I usually follow with "as my Mum would say" and also realised my children don't use any of them! Is it just me?

I forgot, another favourite of mine is

What comes around, goes around. I have personal reasons to quote this!

Bye, he was as fit as a lop! (Yorkshire accent) If someone had died unexpectedly.

If it’s for you,it won’t go by you ,

travelsafar

If the sky was dark with rain clouds my mum would say ' its as black as Newgate's knocker' I never did find out what it meant though.

This is an expression referring to a knocker on Newgate Prison’s door through which prisoners would enter this particularly grim London prison.

You are better as a door than a window ( you are standing in the way).
Were you born in a barn? ( shut the door- it’s draughty in here!)

If the sky was dark with rain clouds my mum would say ' its as black as Newgate's knocker' I never did find out what it meant though.

‘Xx has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’
‘Is the tide out?’ cuppa not full up.
‘It’ll all end in tears’

dalrymple23

Lots of those above but one which is used regularly here is "as much use as a f..t in a windsock"! Although for some reason, the parents of an friend transposed 'windsock' for 'curtain pole'!

...or in a colander...