Some Northern ones here:
Like a dog with two dicks
as funny as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest.
The brown laser.
I mentioned this thread to 'er indoors and gave her some examples but was met with a blank (and mildly disdainful) expression. I then said: "I suppose that this sort of humour appeals less to women" and she replied "Probably, to men too."
"Too lazy to hang together".
"Here's my head, my arse is coming". - of a tardy person.
useless as a screen door on a submarine
we're off like a prom dress.
I couldn't be happier if I were twins.
we're off like dirty shirts
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Friday evening and this is what I am doing. Ok. You need to think of a Scottish accent and you need to see a guy throwing a docking rope and missing several times and then I hear this:
"Ye couldn't hit a cewe in the arse with a banjo."
I laughed for days at that one. A nice variant on the previously mentioned barn door.
My all time favorite: "Even if you feel good, if ten people tell you that you are dead, maybe you should lay down for a while."
Oh and I forgot - "I am as horny as a three dicked dog."
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if I'm in a dull meeting
"How about we all hold hands and try and contact the living"
"Built like a brick S***house" = stocky fellow.
"With a chest like a fourpenny rabbit" = little runt.
"Two bricks short of a wall" = a variation on a theme above in the thread, as is
"The lift/elevator doesn't go all the way to the top".
This is all much more fun than not discussing frock coats.
On walking into a crowded lift
"I suppose you are all wondering why I've called you all here together today"
'...like a fart in a bottle...' - Agitated.
'...like sh*t through a goose...' - Something done at great speed.
"Like a fart in a collander" is another one - the added point here being that the fart cannot decide out of which collander hole to go.
I felt about as welcome as a fart in a spaceship
did anyone mention "fucking the dog" yet?
= doing nothing, idling
hen's elbows (skinny arms)
"Chicken legs" skinny legs and on the same theme "Like a tom tit with leggings on".
Almost forgot to post my favorite literary "colorful expression" of all time, from Mark Twain complaining about a mutual acquaintance:
"...quadrilateral, astronomical, incandescent son-of-a-bitch."
- from a letter to William Dean Howells, 13 February 1903.