Daft as a brush, and other very British sayings

[GypsyRoseGarden]

Reading another thread, a poster mentioned “daft as a brush” which made me smile - it’s so very British - expressive but not vindictive

Another saying I like is “completely trollied” for so very drunk that they can’t walk straight

What are your favorite very British sayings ?

Handsome is as handsome does

Bread and pull it (when asking what's for dinner?)

Up Yonda.. a place a bit far away...

My Grandmother used to say "get up those Jimmy Dancers" for stairs.

Winter comes in on the tail of the last horse in the St. Leger

knee high to a grasshopper.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Face like a wet Wednesday ~ a bit of a misery.

The sun has got his hat on... always sung to the tune.

Let the dog see the rabbit ~ said when people were aimlessly milling around, then someone decisive took charge.

His/her bark is worse than the bite.

A variation of all mouth and no trousers I guess

in the vinager bottle behind the clock, when asked where something was.
2 hairs past a freckle, when asked what the time was, when no timepiece available.
Iffits, when asked whats for dinner.

Gawd I use half of those sayings in the everyday. They just make sense

@FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue

There are so many good ones for using the toilet:

I'm going to powder my nose
I'm going to spend a penny.

I need to avail myself of the conveniences (I love this one!)

or the slightly more vulgar:
I'm going for a Jimmy (Jimmy Riddle = piddle).

There's also "going to rain over China" and "going to shake the dew off a daffodil".

Bobs your uncle Fanny’s your aunt - not sure what that means

Well many children had ‘uncles’. Mums gentlemen friends.

Suggests it’s not true that’s Bob is actually your uncle.

Once in a blue moon
I’ll have your guts for garters
It’s raining in Paris (for your petticoat showing.) I haven’t worn a petticoat since the 1970s!
It’s all gone pear shaped
She’s got a bee in her bonnet
Grew like Topsy

Pissing into the wind

Having a monk on (being in a bad mood)

Have your trousers fallen out with your socks?
Thick as thrives
Change the record
Up the swanny
Up the creek without a paddle
Cool as a cucumber
Make hay while the sun shines
Happy as Larry
Done up like a dogs dinner
Packed like sardines
Pissed as a fart
Like a cat on a hot tin roof

Didn't know if I was coming or going!

They don't know their arse from their elbow.

What a bloody palava!

Oh, I like away with the fairies, or wool gathering for daydreaming (which I suspect doesn't directly translate either).

One sandwich short of a picnic
Or not the sharpest tool in the shed / knife in the drawer

Mountain out of a molehill

Up shit creek without a paddle
Sticky wicket

Shall i turn the big light out?

That's a different kettle of fish
Better than a slap round t'face with wet kipper

Love 'popped his/her clogs', in French you get 'il a cassé sa pipe' (broken his pipe), or that you leave the house with 'les pieds devant' (feet first)

'Fck off you stupid b*txh. ' mothers favourite. Heard a couple of others mentioned as a kid but not often. Unsure whether some of these are positive memories or not really 😶

As an untidy child my mother would describe me as
"Dragged through a hedge backwards" or "looking like you've fell off a flittin" but she was Scots.