Sayings no longer heard.

"We're short of nothing we've got" ... a much older lady I worked with used to say it when looking in the stationery cupboard! Used to amuse me but find myself saying it now!

I still say lots of these and I am only 57!
I make the little ones laugh at school with " one dog, one bone"
One I remember my grandma saying is " eeh, we do see life dont we".

'Ten-to-two' feet and, the opposite, 'pigeon-toed'.

A 'tummy-went' bridge.
Because all the humpty-back bridges seem to have disappeared.

Lies like a cheap rug

or from my granny :

Black as the earl of hells waistcoat
kiss my arse Kilmarnock, tomorrows market day ( i still don't understand that one !1 )

A lot of these sayings are still heard in our house!

One of DH's: He (or she) couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery
(Or a feast for pigeons in a cornfield).

There's enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers
(The weather is going to clear up)

Ears like a barn door. My mother's description of me when she as she asked someone to keep their voice down

Sure a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice - a favourite of my mother's.

'One volunteer is worth ten pressed men' said often by my father when there were chores to be done.

I used it at work recently to an audience rather younger than I am. I then had to explain what a 'pressed man' was....they looked at me like this

as good as gold

mutton dressed as lamb

you and who's army?

get back in the knife drawer!

of course kids have translated into the modern version '1 can short of a 6-pack'

A sandwich short of a picnic
Sharp enough to cut yourself.

I still use a lot of the other sayings mentioned in the thread. I don't swear but use other words instead - such as 'fudge' and 'sugar'. You can probably guess what swear words they replace

Come to think of it,(now that I am thinking of it);we, as the older generation, and not using very much swear words, as they seem to do , especially on telly; ought to encourage the use of all such old fashioned phrases. If the young heard them much more often, maybe the use of foul expletives would diminish,eh?

My Mum used to say "I,le eat hay wi a donkey (if such and such a thing happens); and; Shine a light!(this phrase was used to display her exasperation) more acceptable than swearing.

My giddy aunt.

Bobs your uncle, Fannys your aunt.

let the dog see the rabbit.

nice little thing if it doesn't get any bigger (about any item) another of MiLs

Sunday go to meeting clothes (MiL again)

nutty as a fruit cake

You'll be right as ninepence.

queer as a nine bob note

as right as rain

your eyes are bigger than your tummy [said to me a lot when being greedy.]

going to see a man about a dog

Enough blue sky to make an old man a pair of trousers.

It would do a blind man good to see it. [On seeing a small blemish, mark or stain.]

With acknowledgements to departed MIL.

A nose like a blind cobbler's thumb...

Well, I'll go to sea...

Bobbing about like a fourpenny ham-bone..

Love the mangle one Flower.

Do you remember in the 60s when we called friends 'Petal' ?

Let the dog see the rabbit I can still hear my grandfather saying it.