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Always better spoken in the vernacular:- "Don't pick thi nose er thi yed'll cave in!" :?
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al_yrpal wrote: 17 Feb 2022, 8:29am The Yank version...

" All hat, no cattle"

And...to a companion on a long walk... "Is your waggon draggin" :lol:

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Of a very skinny person:

'I've seen more meat on a kippers top lip!'
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If you're not fast, you're last...

(a favourite truism in our school lunchtimes)
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Someone once described me thus:

"He's strong in arm and thick in head."

Probably true, but not so much of the first these days.
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jimlews wrote: 25 Feb 2022, 9:09am Someone once described me thus:

"He's strong in arm and thick in head."
With any particular geographical connection... ?

: - )

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Usually
Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
Whatever I am, wherever I am, this is me. This is my life

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Your bum is out the window!

Usually in reference to someone caught telling lies.
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Or, your @r#e in parsley!

A particular favourite
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jimlews wrote: 3 Feb 2022, 7:33pm It's about as useful as a chocolate tea pot.
.......... ashtray on a motorbike?
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Away and bile (boil) your heid!

My granny used to say that, she did her 94 years without a word of complaint, or a visit to a hospital. The kids all birthed at home, and didn't stop working till she was 80.
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As mad as a box of frogs.
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Sweating like Donald Trump before a lie detector test
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Who's Donald Trump?
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Mick F wrote: 28 Feb 2022, 8:25pm Who's Donald Trump?
Likely the next president of the United States :roll:
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