Can you share your pithy, old-fashioned sayings?

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DS is 7 and has a very folkloric imagination. He is always coming out with sayings that he has invented but that sound for a sec like they might be real.

I am going to make him a list of real proverbs and sayings as I think he'd get a kick out of it.

I'm starting with "many a mickle makes a muckle".... can you help me by adding your favourites???

Don’t dilly dally

Stuck like a shag on a rock.

saw this on digital spy years ago.

Blood and sand and stomach pills (a bit like bloody hell)
The sights you see when you haven’t got your gun (my mum would always say when she saw someone ‘poorly dressed’ etc)
Smells like a tart’s boudoir

She’s all fur coat and no knickers

Fine words butter no parsnips.

I love the ship one. I’m really tempted to find somewhere to use that and see if anyone questions it.

Face like a cobbler’s thumb

If you've bought a pig in a poke, later on you can let the cat out of the bag

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

Don't count your chickens until they've hatched

You can't teach grandma to suck eggs

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight, fed sky in the morning, shepherd's warning

A stitch in time saves nine

Hells bells and buckets of blood!

Uttered by my granny whenever she dropped or burnt something, or stubbed her toe or was generally exasperated.

An ex boyfriend once said to me “the cloth I’m cut from has a you-shaped hole in it”, which I found odd but sweet.

Many hands make light work

A bad workman blames his tools

It's six of one and half a dozen of the other

@SmugglersHaunt my Scottish nan always said fur coat nae drawers 🤣🤣

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Pride goes before a fall

He’s as tight as two coats of paint

Short arms, deep pockets

Can’t teach an old dog new tricks

"Not my circus not my monkeys"

They’re not the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer

play stupid games, win stupid prizes (means don’t be surprised if doing something terrible has a terrible consequence)

shut the DOOR

It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in.

"put wood in hole"

Like a tart's boudoir in our family! Normally after going to the duty free at the airport or on the ferry.

There's enough blue sky to make a pair of sailors trousers. (to be said when waiting for the rain to stop and the sun to come out and the clouds clear to show blue sky)

I can't see for looking. (couldn't see something right in front of you).

You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. (don't be fussy about food).

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they be.

Hunger is a good sauce.

Away and boil yer heid.

Fuck my old boots (exclamation - one of my favourites!)

When asking my Mum what was for dinner, she would say 'a run around the table and a kick at the cat.'