and some tasteful Ozzie ones....

dry as a dead dingo's donger!! (thirsty)
flat out like a lizard drinking!! (thirsty.. is anyone else seeing a pattern here?... *grin*)

and a Belfast one Seamus missed....

face like a Lurgan spade (sad - a Lurgan spade being very long to dig peat)

slainte

alison

slainte

alison