All fur coat and no knickers

[TitaniaQueenOfTheFairies]

And

Thought this was going to be a thread about people from Edinburgh

More brass than a door knob. (Pushy)
More front than Woolies.

No better than she ought to be/should be - I've seen this in lots of books from the 30s and have no idea where it comes from. Anyone know?

My favourite is a translation of a French saying, very useful to describe certain restaurants which are pretending to be more upmarket than the food quality warrants -

"Farting higher than their own arsehole"

Champagne taste & lemonade pockets

She has a face on her like she's chewin wasps.

She/he was in the back row when looks were given out.

He/she has a face that only a mother could love.

Big house - little dinners

Wanting the moon on a stick
A sandwich short of a picnic
The lift doesn’t go all the way to the top

No better than she ought to be I've always heard in a longer sentence: "You can't talk- you're no better than you ought to be!"
IE- no better than anybody else.

All kippers and curtains. (Kippers were very cheap so saying was about all outward show but no money).
Red shoes no drawers - no idea about this one!

face that;d fear the tinkers oot their tent

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

They fell out the ugly tree - and hit every branch on the way down.

Ouch @Messy that’s brutal.

Funny thought

All gong and no dinner

Up and down like a stripper's knickers

Dragged through a hedge backward (to describe a person's unkempt appearance)

She thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips - my favourite one.

I love these! Some are so awful.

My granny used to say ‘grandpa will have your guts for garters’ when we had done something wrong.

We used to say 'he's aa double bagger' to describe an ugly bloke - you'd want to put a brown paper bag on his head to cover his face with a second one in case the first one split. We were awful 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have no idea what this thread is about 😂but the earlier quotes reminded me of one of my favourite lines in Gosford Park
“You have the taste of a marquis but the income of a vicar” sums up my DH completely ..,

Looks the type to wipe his cock on your curtains......

I thought "red hat no draws (drawers?) "Meant the same tol I discovered I'd been calling people prostitutes

Wetter than an otters pocket

Can't polish a turd

Mutton dressed as lamb

'Here's me head, me arse is coming'

My gran would say

'Lies like a hairy egg' (if someone fibbed a lit) I never understood it

And

'Laughs like a cobweb' again no idea what that meant 😄

Lol @MarianaMoatedGrange, i haven't heard that one before. It's positively rank!