old sayings

[Designer Jeans]

Tight with money - Every penny's a prisoner

If you didn't like what was for tea - Bread and lump it

Fair exchange is no robbery

Not long for this world - He won't make old bones

[Lisajj]

If you pulled a face someone would say "careful, if the wind blows you'll stick like it"

oh and I wondered if its just local to the Midlands, but a common phrase when retelling a conversation -
"and I turned round and said..."  Why do you turn round to say???  I have heard myself saying it!!  But why?

[Billyblue]

A whistling girl and a crowing hen always come to a bad end.

My mum used to tell me "A whistling girl and a crowing hen is good for neither God nor man"   

Hells bells and buckets of blood!

A favourite saying of my older brother    

Dawn M

[BevL]

My husband always says when something hasn't gone right
'Never mind, it will soon be christmas and we can all have some nuts'
and a variation of one before that my M-I-L used to say:
Be good - if you can't be good be careful - if you can't be careful, remember the date!
Bev

[Billyblue]

And Annui

"She/he's as fat as Fanny Watson".

This reminded me of a saying among the hospital orderlies when I was doing my nursing training.
When asked why they were rushing around (most uncharacteristically), we'd be told

'Well, I'm all behind like Binny Barnes'

Binny Barnes was the sister in charge of one of the wards, who was the proverbial
'three axe-handles across (the behind)'
        

Dawn M

[SwissGill]

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

There's method in his madness

It's like the blind leading the blind

He'd forget his head if it weren't screwed on

Seen above a toilet:

Our aim is to please, please make your aim straight!!

[SwissGill]

she had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

I can just picture that - thank goodness I've just finished my coffee

[Flattybasher9]

There's a few I remember, but won't post them on here 

Dagnabbitt

I'm ah in a fuddle

Behave or yell get a skelpit lug

Malky

[a-l]

Flattybasher, I'm intrigued now and I know I won't be alone , will you be pming them? lol