What phrases do you love?

[Beaverdam100]

Mine are

Off you pop cunty chops
Get ya rat out

I've never used them but I laugh whenever i read them.

You can't polish a turd

This is not my first rodeo,you know. Said mostly to mansplaning men

“Do you think I button up at the back?”

My favourite Glaswegian phrase.

Opinions are like bum holes. Every one has them. Never used it, but love it!

Shite in a poke.

Very rarely say it out loud but I do enjoy muttering it under my breath.

@freckles83

You can't polish a turd

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

Is what we say 🤣 xxx

Tipping someone bollocks. I used it with a northern friend a couple of weeks ago about a junior colleague, 'was he tipping me bollocks?!' and then remembered it means nothing to anyone outside of a smallish area of the South east/East London.

Also you can't put lipstick on a pig

Cwtch, its the Welsh for hug/cuddle and by far my favorite expression in my adopted country especially when its 'do you need a cwtch' its pronounced 'kutch', to rhyme with 'butch

Flat out like a lizard drinking - being busy

A face like a slapped arse.

My Grandad always used to say “how you can stand there riding that bike” if you were telling fibs/exaggerating. I never understood it but it’s such a strong memory of him. He was bloody lovely

Not my circus, not my monkeys

They don't know their arse from their elbow

"I didn't know if I was coming or going or been and gone"...my lovely Nan.

F#ck a duck!

The Earth revolves around the sun, not your child.
Fur coat and no knickers.
Don't stand with one foot in the past and one foot in the future, pissing all over today.

Also:
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
For the millionth time, will you stop exaggerating.

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Do you think I sailed up the Clyde in a banana boat?

Another Glaswegian one!

Do you think my head buttons up the back? I didn't come down in the last shower

I don't give a rat's danglies (from a book)
I'm so hungry I could eat a shabby horse between two rusty bread vans.

Ffs autocucumber. SCABBY horse

Jesus sufferin Christ ( an old Glasgow one)

Or my personal favourite, no shit sherlock 😂

Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble yesterday?

Wind your neck in

She's not a bit behind the door

You wouldn't want to be late giving your wages to her

He's gonna get the rounds of the kitchen when she gets him home

He must have had a hard paper round

Tilting at windmills.

A Japanese phrase, "neko no te mo karitai”, meaning "I'm so busy that I'll even borrow the cat's paws".