Sayings no longer heard.

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

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

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)

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

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

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".

"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!

If we had cream we could have strawberries and cream if we had strawberries.

From my dear late Fil.

My aunt always smashed her finished boiled egg with her spoon "to save a sailor from drowning"

Black as hell's door knocker.
Queer (as in odd) as a Cleethorpes donkey.
Cutting ninepence to nowt (When a sewing project ends in disaster)

Time to hit the hay - bedtime

If you can't fight, wear a big hat...

Well, I'll go hopping away...

Tight as Dick's hat-band...

Hold very tight, please... (remember bus-conductors?)

All mouth and trousers...

Put wood in t'hole!

Driving home this evening, past a "road closed" sign, Mrs Pompa commented "that road's been closed for yonks".

So how long is a "yonk"

Stone the crows!

A bit longer than a tick pompa as in "just a tick"

Same difference.
Goose pimples.
Heat lightning.

The young 'uns look at me like I'm crazy when I say them.

Nowt queer as folk
Thinks he's the Bees Knees
You'll be right as rain

"Queer" now there's a word that has changed it's usage over the years, used to be :-

That's queer == a little odd
I'm feeling queer == I'm feeling ill

My Dad used it often in these contexts.

Now it's a derogatory term for a homosexual.

"Black as Egypt's night" - courtesy of Great Aunt Margaret
"Two bricks and a hat"- My Gran`s description of a small person
"Tell that to the marines" -My Granny expressing disbelief
"Its all my eye and Betty Martin"- Granny again
"Bob`s your uncle, Fanny`s your aunt and your Granny`s in the RAF" - goodness knows where that came from

Couldn't organise nookie in a knocking shop. (variation on booze-up in a brewery)

If we had any ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had any eggs. (when the cupoboard was bare)

Little pitchers have big ears. (when discussing grown-up things in front of children)

Fur coat and no knickers!

Reading the sayings so far listed took me back a few years when these sayings were everyday stuff on everybody's lips.
Here are few that may not be so well known, but were in common useage,
He's as full of trouble as maggots full of meat.
Same meat different gravy.
Put a Begger on horse back and he will ride to the devil, Old soldiers never look behind,
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
You can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink.
My view is that one we have changed so much that are now frightened to speak for fear of saying something that some twisted mind somewhere will claim is offensive, and social media has a lot to answer for. It has taken a lot of the colour and humour out of our lives.

About "You can lead a horse to the water but you can't make it drink" The comment of a friend on some unsuccessful matchmaking was "You can take a horse to the water, but a pencil must be lead"