What daft sayings can you think of?

[Fiddlesticks1]

What daft sayings have you heard of?
My elderly neighbour: tight as a crab’s arse
My grandmother: do you think too daft to see over the top of a frying pan.

' a mouth like a bag of chisels' = somebody with crooked teeth.

Mickle is a little thing and muckle is a big thing.
Lots of little things together result in a big one!

Yes I've heard of this, no idea what it means!

Or 'he's got teeth like a row of bombed houses'

“Another clean shirt will do you” another that my mum would say if we were coughing or feeling unwell - as in the next shirt you wear will be in your coffin - she usually was laughing at us as we were drama queens when sick as kids and saying that we were dying!

"Take a walk till yer 'at floats" was another of my dad's pearls.

"He could eat an apple through a tennis racquet" said of someone with big or protruding teeth. 🤭

I like the old sayings...

Worse things happen at sea

A storm in a teacup

It'll all come out in the wash

I find them all comforting, there's no point worrying about something and it'll all work out in the end!

😂

My DM used to say I was as awkward as Dick’s hatband!

Well known phrase where I come from in NE Scotland.

”Mony a mickle maks a muckle”

It usually meant save up your small change, as your money will soon grow.

Mine would be:
one eye and a petmint

and they

look a right cockabird

Not so green as cabbage looking threw me when a colleague in the 80s used it as fancy dress? Still don't have a clue 🤣

I heard “eat corn on the cob through a picket fence” the other day and it made me properly chuckle

Another I heard in America that made me laugh
“ who licked all the red off her sucker?” About a miserable person….😁

My mum too. Marple Bridge

He'd skin a fart for a ha'penny.

As bent as a nine-bob note.

Mad as a box of frogs
It’s black over Will’s mothers

Love “trunky want a bun?”

I also enjoy ‘a face like a melted welly’.

"would you ever in all your life see a monkey without a wife" - to describe anything a bit baffling (dgm).

What’s for tea? Bread and pullet from parents.
Where are we going? There and back to see how far it is from parents.

A blind man would love to see it, Brings back memories, got this all the time.

I have loads.

Like a fart in a colander.

Like a bibble in a tin can.

What’s for tea? A cup of cold sick and a rock bun.

I’ll go t’foot of our stairs.

If I was picking at a spot: ‘You’ll have a pig’s foot grow’.

Enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers.

Can talk the legs off an iron pot.

If I asked where something was it was always behind the jug in granny’s room.

And Dad had forever gone to see a man about a dog.

Pigs arse and cabbage is what we got for tea 😂

If my Mum heard an unusual name "that's a name to go to bed with"

"If pigs could fly, you would be Wing Commander"