Some popular ones from here in West Clare Clare and, from memory, Liverpool.
When somebody does you a great favour the thanks is:
"You're blood's worth bottling"
If somebody shows talent that he/she has inherited from the family;
"He didn't lick it off the ground".
A diminutive individual is described as;
"Having to stand on tuppence to look over threepence"
or
"I bet he has to have turn-ups on his underpants"
Our local undertaker also ran a bar; if you thanked him when he served you a pint he'd say "thank yourself".
A dishonest person;
"He'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes"
Somebody who pontificates:
"He's all wind and pee, like the barber's cat".
When somebody is 'past it'
"It's all gone up"
We had a coffee with Joe Heaney in a scruffy cafe near Euston Station after one of his last performances in Britain and he said he believed he was getting "too old".
He told us "it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night".
A whole range of similar responses when you ask "what's for breakfast"; my mother's was "cow's cock and hairy bacon".
A comment on a bad singer;
"If he was singing for sh** he wouldn't get the smell of it".
Somebody the worse for wear following a night of heavy drinking
"He's got eyes like a s***house rat"
Haven't thought of these for years - thanks for the opportunity.
Jim Carroll