At the very beginning of WC (in July of 2002!), I wrote about a phrase expressing irritation: "That dusts my doilies!" Last night at dinner someone said something expressing irritation that was even funnier: "That chaps my rear!"

Have you ever heard that? I had not. Any others that you can think of?

... gets right up my nose (may be UK only)

And of course the coarser cousin to the above

...get on my tits.

Oddly an expression that I have only ever heard used by men.

Speaking of tits, but addressing the cold and not irritation, I had a friend who used to say it was "colder than a witch's tit."

/7quote]colder than a witch's tit."[/quote]
My uncle's favorite (and it made no sense to me, although I was of an age where I would laugh uproariously when he said it)"colder than a frozen monkey's balls."

"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is, or used to be, pretty common. I suspect it's fallen out of use due to the declining brass monkey population.

I am rereading "Exodus," which is good, but about 3 books in one. It also is not very complimentary of either "the Arabs" or "the British." At any rate, there was another "colder than" phrase that I hadn't heard, but I like: "It's colder than a well digger's ass out there."