Another local expression - do you have a variant?

[dsjturner]

"Born in a paddock with the sliprails down" (= Close the door!)

Where i'm from, the south east, we usually ask "were you born in a barn?" if someone leaves the door open!
My dad, a Londoner, always says' It's better than a kick in the teeth!"
We use the already mentioned sayings for being hungry but we still say quite a rude version for being thirsty! It's very rude I warn you but we say "oh i've got a mouth like a nun's....."

[lesleyhannah]

My Nan (from Hull) when asked what was for tea always replied 'S*** with sugar on'.

Another expression that used to puzzle me as a kid, was, when she didn't believe what we were saying was 'that's all my eye and Peggy Martin'.

And if I'd been naughty I'd be threatened with 'Icky the Firebobby' - whoever he was!

[mother25]

When someone knocked at the door and a person indoors would say 'Who's that' before opening the door. The reply would be Icky the Firebobby!!

We also heard All my eye and Betty Martin, meaning something wasn't quite true.

She's all fur coat and no knickers  meant someone was putting on a front...trying to be something they weren't.

No better than she ought to be meant a girl who had low morals 

Twopence short of a shilling...not quite sane 

He's got all his chairs at home meant he knew what was what

[mother25]

Something a family friend used to say was 'Old Timer's Disease'  she meant Alzheimer's disease of course 

I think that's called a Malapropism though rather than a family saying.

[nort]

here's a one
when going into a dark room "you can't see a bat's eye" !!!

[Paul]

here's a one
when going into a dark room "you can't see a bat's eye" !!!

Or it was as black as a coal heavers armpit

Paul.

[Cully1418]

A few years ago I took my place in the family line up for my grandad's birthday photo.  Grandad came out with "You wouldn't stop a pig in a passage" - a reference to the fact that I am somewhat bow legged! Bless him!

[Ozdot]

More from my husband - born in Sheffield -

"She's got Face On"  (usually when someone is in a bad mood or sulking etc)
"Nesh" this one has been on here I see (feels the cold and complains about it)
"Mardy" (someone who whines ALL the time about nothing)

My father-in-law said to our elder daughter when she was only a toddler (much to my mother-in-law's disgust) "Don't put your dannies in your mussie" .  Meaning, I think, keep your hands out of your mouth.

[mother25]

I think being nesh must be a northern thing, because I recall it from my childhood in Liverpool and my late hubby knew it from his childhood in Manchester, but when we moved South nobody seemed aware of it 

If we asked 'what's for dinner' my mum would often say 'A run round the table 'til you're fed up'  meaning there wasn't much available   

If there were black clouds in the distance, my gran would say 'It's stormy over Fred's mother's'   No idea who Fred was or his mother 

I wonder what our children/grandchildren will remember about us