Outdated sayings Do you know any?

That's the glory and wonder of getting on a bit Ana you can have the same conversation many many times.

If anything was lost my Dad would say 'It's up in Annie's room, behind the clock'

Stone the crows!

Ana it doesn't matter how often. Our language is fascinating especially sayings from different regions. Also new GNers are joining all the time.

Stop being such a mardy bum! If you're not from the North you won't get that but I'm sure you're smart enough to work it out!

My mum used to say "san fairy ann" (ca ne fait rien). I don't think people use this expression any more.

Gordon Bennett! (someone I worked for actually had a friend called Gordon Bennett)

I still get GC, the smaller ones, to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

Don't play in the horse road.

Love a duck is another

Such a sharp tongue, Granny2213! Mind you don't cut yourself...

My grandson learned a new saying the other day. Fuckity-doo-da.

That'll be old one day.

Go Granny2213! Not everyone is aware of previous similar threads!
I was told around 1950 by my lovely granny to 'Mind how you cross the horse road,' Mrs Eggy. I thought this odd although there were still a few horse drawn vehicles around. Manure was still collected for the roses, and horses bringing beer or coal often got stroked while they munched from their nosebags.

"Suck my bob"

Are you sure you can't work out what that means loopy? (or is it me?! )

No wonder your Granny had apoplexy.

MIL not Granny

'ows yer belly orf fer spots ..

If we stood in front of the TV, my granny used to say "Your father wasn't a glazier. "

[ kindle wanted to say glacier]

eloethan I think san fairy ann dated from WW1 when the soldiers picked up some French.
We still use 'disherbelly' as in 'I see you are still in your disherbelly' meaning 'I see you haven't got dressed yet', from the French deshabille. Obviously now the children have left home we use it far less often
There was an orthodontist at Newcastle Dental Hospital called Gordon Bennett

standing in front of the open coal fire skirt up "roasting yer chestnuts"
givin'yerself corned beef legs

u 'ad a good butchers...

sling yer 'ook

Ana I am cut to the quick!

I love all these old sayings. How strange that we had no idea what they meant but that we understood them anyway!

I love words. And phrases handed down. Even better, I love to see how they originated.

I still use most of these:

All fur coat and no knickers.
We all have our crosses to bear.
San fairy Anne.
All wind and no pee.
She'll talk a glass eye to sleep.
All mouth and no trousers.
Never a borrower or a lender be.
What did your last slave die of?

Not so much an old saying, but misheard words when I was little, ie,
" Mairsydotes and Dozeydotes and little lambsy divey" translates as " Lambs eat oats and Does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy" At least thats what I think it is.

He/she has got a face like a smacked a--e

And everyday language and meanings. Daughter is an early learning teacher. And has had to explain. To avoid confusion.

Put the kettle on.
Jump on the bus.
Put the fire out.
Don't walk on the carpet.
Get up.
Get dressed.
Skip that, for now.
Please leave the room.
Many more that we think are 'understood'.
She has been told on her Offstead course, that all these statements, used every day, must be clarified and the sentence completed so the children know exactly what is expected of them.