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Going to wade in with a few Scots ones here. If you can 'think' them in the accent, perfect, otherwise just laugh at yourself trying to say them:
One of mum's most used is "what's for ye'll no' go by ye" meaning what's meant to be will be.
The Glaswegian fixation with referring to anything good as "pure dead brilliant". Glaswegians also use "hen" as a term of endearment.
The Aberdonian fixation of referring to the temperature as "Baltic" if it's cold (which it usually is, frequently raining cats and dogs and hailing golfballs). Common Aberdonian greeting is "fit like, min" equating roughly to "how are you?"
Aberdeen and north refers to pretty girls as "bonny quines" (pronounced 'kwine'), children are "bairns" and very young children are "peedie bairns".
My own tendency (from mixed locations) to refer to another room as being "through the house", even when I'm not actually in a house.
"Scunnered" is another good one, meaning worn out or tired, similar to knackered. Often used as in "I'm fair scunnered the day" ('the day' is often used in place of 'today')
As regards the death-related ones, I'm most familiar with 'dead as a dodo'.
Anyone interested in drunk as a skunk?
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