She's some kinda lady. Delivered derisively to mean quite the opposite after Mom had witnessed something very unlady-like indeed. :-)

If a light was left on... "It's like Blackpool illuminations in here!" I don't think she ever visited Blackpool.

She's all kippers and curtains. My mother on somebody with social pretensions.

I seem to remember my dad referring to large whiskers (aka "Mutton Chop") as "Bugger's Grips". It was only when I used the phrase out loud, in my thirties, that it dawned on me what it meant.

Not mine, but has anyone seen Russell Howard on his parent's metaphors for someone's sexual proclivities? He likes to keep a skipping rope in the glovebox!