Don’t come the raw prawn with me
You make a better door than a window (to someone standing in the way)
Irish; to delay doing something… ‘putting it on the long finger’
“You weren’t made at Pilkington’s”
See also, “ye make a better door than a windae”
Exact same meaning
@johnnymarone
Flatter than a witches tit. Only way I’ve heard it used anyway.
"Colder than / as cold as" here.
Let's face it, it's nonsensical so it vaguely works as whatever simile you hand on it. Hot, cold, flat, pointy, white, black, wet, dry...
It's like how pretty much any verbed noun works as a hyperbolic metaphor for being drunk. "Oh man, I was totally plant-potted last night. Absolutely coat-racked."
"we're not here to f@#& spiders"
Mrs Lawman regularly comes up with one when you get someone on TV interviewing an elderly person who's unexpectedly lucid for their age... "Still got all the cups in his cupboard"
You're like friggin horse shit. Always int road
Never mind the quality…feel the width😜
put th'wood int hole - close the door
he's as wet as a can of p--s
as far fetched as a bucket of s--t from china
all from my dear old nana
"Been here since God were a lad" in reference to colleagues who've worked for the organisation a while. Like 40+ years, and there's chuffing loads of em,!
Ram it!
‘Appen as maybe - Yorkshire for perhaps
Aye up - As a greeting, see above. My standard way of saying hello.
Get outa road or I’ll poise thi - Shouted by my stepfather on a regular basis at kids playing in the road. I now shout it at cats and jackdaws in my garden.
Of no use to man or fish
Even when you have a $h1t, you're not finished until you've done the paperwork
An absolute clusterfu#@.
An Arabic? proverb: 'May you never spiral headlong into a bouquet of donkeys' penises.'
Picked up in Australia, meaning when something fits perfectly:
"Like a finger in a bum"
Grist t’mill.
Trouble at mill.
You know, old what’s-his-face.
From the US of A cop shows: ‘sitting around with our goddamn thumbs up our asses’.
"If you should so desire..."
I used to use this ar work in response to spurious complaints " I'll speak to them and make sure they are fully aware of their duties" sounds like you are going to tell them off but actually meaningless
like catching fog in a net / like herding cats in a thunderstorm
for stuff that's difficult / pointless / futile
And recently on this very site, to decribe owning a new pet
'I've realised I'm a dog entertainment manager'
"It's payday"
From my time in education:
'I'd be most grateful if....' is a much better way of getting someone to do something, it makes it a win-win.
'Please may I be excused.'
'Are you making good progress?'
Courtesy of the Sirius Cybernetics Co: ‘glad to be of service’.
Getting ones ‘knickers in a twist’.
SSDD.
Like a tortoise towing a caravan.
Hope your bollocks turn square and fester at every corner.
Hope your arse falls off.
Measure twice, cut once
Taking some details from a woman of mature years
"Is that Mrs or Miss?"
"Miss, I've been on the shelf all my life.......
Mind you I have been taken down and dusted once or twice"
I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
Get in the sea/bin.
There are no stupid questions only stupid people.
'Do you want a drink'.
(I realize theres been a previous 15 references to being bought a drink, but it seems legit to me.)
Everything fits with the right size hammer.
Just ****in ****t it.
Theyre nothing special , theyve got 2lb of shite stuffed up their guts ,same as the rest of us. Usually when talking about snobby folk.
Full as an egg.
ie I have just enough room for a pudding!
“With gap, scarcely wide enough to slip fag pape betwixt (tyre) and (seat tube)”
'I'd be most grateful if...' it's a win-win rather than bossing someone around.
'Are you making good progress?'
As much use as a ****ful of cold water.
sweating like a (insert area of country here, eg Geordie) in a maths exam.
sweating like a badger (in a sack)
As rough as a well-digger's arse.
He's got expanding wrists (tight fisted)
So tight (fisted) he squeaks when he walks
Not my circus, not my clowns.
Beg forgiveness rather than ask permission.
That's the badger.
Full arsed or not at all!
About as much use as fairy wings on a cement truck.
As good ideas go, that one's right up there with having my gums extracted.
As sure as a cat's a hairy beastie!
sweating like a (insert area of country here, eg Geordie) in a maths exam.
sweating like a badger (in a sack)
Sweating like a small nun at a penguin shoot.
“Short arms and deep pockets” for the tight fisted of this world
“As welcome as a fart in a space suit”
“Smooth as snake shit”
Nesh. Purloined from another thread.
(especially of a person) weak and delicate; feeble. Unusually susceptible to cold weather.
Nesh. Purloined from another thread.
(especially of a person) weak and delicate; feeble. Unusually susceptible to cold weather.
Not a phrase I'd heard till we moved to tbe East Midlands
a bit of Dylan Thomas...
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
