From keel to truck, meaning from top to bottom (albeit in reverse order) often referring to how well one had or hadn't washed Slower than a wet week = taking an inordinately long time Not as green as he's cabbage-looking = not as clueless as he's trying to pretend. As popular as a pork chop in a synagogue (often, these days, with mosque instead of synagogue) or as popular as a fart in a bottle or as a fart in church Shake a leg (or) Unwrap your rung = get a wriggle on = hurry up! Variations on some above "I see it all", said the blind man, when he really couldn't see at all. Bright as a new pin Queen Anne front and Mary Anne behind ; more or less equivalent to "Not as smart as it looks" but also to "All fur coat and nae knickers" More trouble than a barrel of monkeys Cheers, Rowan
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