As a kid I remember.
I’ll make you laugh on the other side of your face.
A load of old squit.
And
Hold you hard.
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A kick in his gallop
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Auntie Mary
Keeps a canary
Up the leg of her drawers !!
Kiss my arse. !!
Eat your carrots, you can see in the dark !!
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many a mickle makes a muckle
it’s Scottish and means many a mickle makes a muckle ,I think.
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Problem is I still use a good many of these and would consider them still fairly current.
This one is perhaps a bit older a daffy down dilly can refer to a daffodils or it can mean a lawyer that is acting for both parties in a case for their own advantage.
I always liked this one thou cream faced loon from Macbeth it is an insult a pun and a description all in 4 words.
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I’ve got a bone to pick with you.
One of my grandmothers.Meant you were in trouble
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" Gawd stone the crows"
Another of my grandad’s…usually in good humour.
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Up the wooden hill
My mum when she sent us to bed .
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…a Gypsy’s??
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I don’t know . However the term is exclamation of surprise or shock,…a old fashioned OMG
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LOL!!! A Gypsy’s is short for a Gypsy’s Kiss or a pee …tis rhyming slang
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Cludgie