The usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "the body and physical appearances."  For fuller information about each usage, see the main list, which is also alphabetized in twenty-six files. Just click on to the appropriate letter.

angel mask, a: caul over a newborn babe

bald as a melon: completely bald

banner socket: navel

Barnet Fair: hair

Basil Belly: fat man

beef to the heels: hefty legs

bell bottom legs: thick legs

bellers to mend: short of breath

bewdle: nose

bike on the nose: eyeglasses

blowing for tugs:  short of breath

boats: shoes

bonce: head

bottle: arse

bristlers: woman's breasts

bugle: nose

bum-drops: short legs

cack `anded: left handed

cakehole: mouth

Charlie's footrot:  athlete's foot

chesty, to be:  having chest congestion

chopped-up eyebrows

clever: in good health

clock, de: face

coat and vest: chest

County Kildaire: hair

Cowdenbeath: teeth

cracker, a: a beautiful individual

crater face: acne

crown jewels: head injuries

Cunard feet: big splay feet

custy: beautiful

dial: face

diddyman: of small stature

dock, to be in: to be hospitalized

dollypegs: legs

drack: protruding teeth

duck's disease:  short legs

Eden, dressed for: naked

egg-shell blond: bald

eyes like pee holes in snow:

fangs:  teeth

flappers:  ears

forks:  hands

four-eyed sod: bespectacled

frilly lips

gairm:  illness, disease

gammy-(h)anded:  left handed

gazumped; extremely weary

GBH: grievous bodily harm

gnashers:  teeth

gob:  mouth

gob-ache: toothache

Gregory Peck:  neck

Hempstead Heath: teeth

hooter: nose

I suppose: nose

jaxie:  arse

kay-fisted:  left-handed

King Kong:  a runt

kipper:  face

kithogue: left-handed

loaf of bread: head

lugole: ear

Mae Wests: breasts

Manchester Cities: breasts

Mary: a pot belly

messy gob:  unattractive mouth

milkshakes:  breasts

mince pies: eyes, ties

mobile dandruff: lice

moey: mouth

moosh: mouth

naughty pins: unshapely legs

not too foul:  attractive

nut:  head

nut-pox: ringworm

on the club, to be: pregnant

on the panel, to be:  hospitalized

one eye and a whelk:  an eye injury

pegs:  legs

pins:  legs

piss-prophet: physician

piss track:  male uro-genital system

plates of meat:  feet

railings:  teeth

ream: beautiful

seatworms:  pin worms

segs: callouses

shelf kit: breasts

shingle: short haircut for women

shortarsed: of small stature

skinny mm'links:  teasing label for a thin person

snot candles:  camphor candles

soul case:  body

tatty hur: hair in need of washing

ticker quack:  cardiologist

under the arm, to be:  feeling poorly

urgent note, to be on:  on the critical list

Vanity Fair:  hair

Vera Lynn:  chin

webs:  feet

wingy:  one armed person

Zimmer, a:  orthopedic walker
 

To a child about a bump on the forehead: "That will be a pig's foot in the morning"
Or: "That'll be a Duck Egg in the morning"

In defense after just having farted: "It's a poor arse that doesn't rejoice."

On thinness: "She was so skinny, if she stood sideways and stuck her tongue out, she'd look like a zip fastener"

About someone with "big sticky out ears like Prince Charles"--" He looks like a taxi with the doors open."

Or: looks like an elephant with the wind behind it

"Iz mudder cuddint breast feed'im. Ee was dahr'ugly eed curdil deh milk."

"Eez feet are dat big, da'iff he threw a shoe in deh river,.it'id be a hazard to shipping."

Sheez dahr'ugly, she's frighten a monkey out of a banana tree."

"Iz tarts(girlfriend) dahr'ugly, sheed frighten a sailor off a raft."

"Ders more fat onna chip dan imm"

(h)e spewed (h)is ring up: vomited heavily

(h)ere's (h)is(h) ed,(h)is arse is cummin'
(said of a hump-backed or hunched forward physique)

(hair) like a mop hanging over the bannisters

gob(mouth) like the bottom of a birdcage, a(halitosis)

sawdust's cummin outa me knees, the(I'm exhausted)

once around Maggie, twice around the gasworks(Margaret is quite stout)

looks like the unchback of Knotty Ash(An ugly specimen from an ugly part of town)

can eat an apple through a tennis racket(protruding teeth)

can sing a duet on her own(obese)

nose running like a glassblower's ass

face like a ruptured custard, a

has a back on him like a warehouse rat(a powerfully built man)

looks like a bleeding horse(Hanoverian good looks)

legs like knotty pine

sweat's hoppin' outa me armholes

spittin like a Flemish Comeedjin

seen more meat in a priest's house on Good Friday(a thin person)

There's more meat on a butcher's pencil

There's more fat on a chip than on (h)im.(The man's thin)

There's more meat on a milk bottle

Or: he couldn't win a race; the tape would cut his neck

Or: (a thin person in the pool): who threw those braces in the water?

teeth queuing up to get to the front

teeth like the ten commandments: all broken

teeth like a row of  bombed houses

when she sucks a lemon, the lemon pulls a face

gorra chin like a docker's kneecap

looks as if he's lost a tanner and found a ha'penny

face like a burnt (or busted) wellie(boot)

a face like a blind cobbler's thumb

a face like a wet whit weekend

a face like a dollop of mortal sins

a face like a forty shilling piss pot

an ugly looking preacher: with a face like a bagful of hammers, his nose was going north and his ears were going south

about someone's big nose:  if it were upside down, it 'd be a shithouse for two

a woman with hair permanenly in curlers: she had a head like a bucket of chips

over-mascara'd eyes:  eyelashes like Shell Park railings

a neck like a mad giraffe

shoulders like a Hungarian grave digger

Her legs were like corned beef from the gas fire

Me mum did say if I didn't pluck the fluff outa me bellybutton, it'd turn into a black pearl

fat as mud

She's got an arse like two dinner cobs in a docker hankie

He's/She's so bandy, they couldn't stop a pig in an entry

He walks like a Scotland Road trimmer(cargo loader, balancer, with a sea roll in his stride)

Of an item of clothing which looks too large: it would fit Ned Spread Eagle

Of a woman in her best Sunday dress:  she was walking around like a pigeon in a frock

Very well dressed: got up like a dog's dinner

All dressed up like a tuppence apenny toff

Of a man smoking Abdullah cigarettes: smells like an Arab shit house

Her legs look like yer could run a flag up without it dragging in the sand: a long-legged lass

You know our____has got nice legs, but it's like putting diamonds in a brass setting

a chin like a bag of hammers

a bum like two eggs in a navvy's hankie

a face like a robber's dog

enough make up on to sink a ship

gob the color of boiled shit: exasperated

Dressed like a dummy out of Burton's window