Piffy on a rock bun

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Does anyone else use this idiom regularly, or just me?

usually shortened to ‘Like Piffy’ as in. “ I’m stood here like Piffy whilst you lot faff around”
I baffled a few colleagues at work the first time I used it and my DH had never heard it either.

DH uses the phrase ‘Like Wanna Lockharte’ in a similar context. (No idea if any of that is spelt correctly)
We were both born in Lancashire for context.

FIL from Blackburn would suggest “he had more … than soft Mick” when someone had plenty of something

I'm from east Lancs and I've never heard of piffy. I do love rock buns, though.
"Soft mick" I definitely know. Used when you think someone is playing you for a fool.

"Who do you think I am? Soft Mick?"

Actually I'm wrong (I've lived away for many years now!). The phrase would be

"She's got more shoes than soft Mick"

My Midlands gran used to use these.

so is it cultural appropriation for the rest of the UK to start using Piffy, I like it.

I assume they’re the same as rock cakes? My Dad (from London) used to make them when we were young. Lovely little rock looking cakes with currants in them, a bit like a scruffy scone.

I want to know what happened to soft Mick, he obviously did well for himself. I also wonder why he was soft? 🤔

My father (born Yorkshire 1932) used to come out with it. Not heard it from anybody since.
Also when asked What’s that? Would answer
“It’s a wigwam for t’ducks to piark (perch) on.”
In other words MYOB!

Never heard before but love it!

This is a great origin story for Soft Mick and makes sense! My step mother that says it had older relatives in Accrington.

Peak District here born and bred. I use it, as does my mum.

I'm in West Lancs and never heard of it.

Is it from patience on a monument as a PP said?

She sat like Patience on a monument
Smiling at Grief

(Twelfth Night)

Aye, appen. Or what you will.

Recognise a lot of these sayings😀.

I'm a Mancunian, DH was born in Bolton. We have very similar sayings, maybe with a slight word difference, but this one totally threw him the first time I used it.
My nickname at work is now Piffy 🤣🤣

My Mum (from North London) also used to say "don't just stand there like a tit in a trance".

Yes. My grandmother used it as do DM and I. Lancashire.

My uncle would say he was building a wigwam to wind up the sun when asked what he was doing

My West Yorks Mum who said Venus on a rock bun, standing here like cheese at fourpence, and 'What do you think that is? Scotch mist?!' say if you were looking for something that was staring you in the face,
had a dad who was born in Preston.