Phrases once common you rarely hear today

When we had an outside toilet in the yard and when I needed the toilet my dad would say watch out for Ginny Greenteeth as I stepped in the yard. As a 5 or 6 year old it used to be to put the fear of god in me.
 
Let's go to "The Outdoor" for some beers
He's mustard that lad
He's daft as a brush
"Where we going dad"? 'There and back to see how far it is"
Off to the park for a sit down on "a form"
The rains coming down like stair rods
She's got a face like: A wet weekend, a joiners thumb, a bastard on father's day,
He's as thick as a brick, a short end, a vicars foreskin
 
My grandma…

Get to the rec
Get to the park
Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs…
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
A days rain in a fortnight now, will do more good than a week’s will in a month further on.
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Not a saying as such, a Welder where I worked as a teenager had to do some work outside on a huge boiler flange, the rain started to pour and he eventually said:

“I’m soaking, if it’s still raining at 5 o’clock I’m going home at dinner time”
 
Tuearts right boot said:
I thought it was bent as a nine bob note seeing as there was nothing out of the ordinary about a ten bob note as they were in circulation, a nine bob note however......
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Following the death of Pavarotti Elton John was offered his place in the three tenors , to be re titled two tenors and a nine bob note
 
Ho Chi Man City said:
Not a saying as such, a Welder where I worked as a teenager had to do some work outside on a huge boiler flange, the rain started to pour and he eventually said:

“I’m soaking, if it’s still raining at 5 o’clock I’m going home at dinner time”
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Mrs Vienna’s son, when explaining mealtimes to our then young granddaughter, told her that we have dinner at teatime!
 
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