Old fashioned expressions you still use.

Courting

One that dds and I nicked from the BBC Pride and Prejudice (Lady Catherine) was, This is all extremely vexing!’
We still say it.

Gordon Bennett?

Is it Gordon Bennet NanKate? We say that. Also I'm always 'Going to the foot of our stairs'.
We use loads of old expressions. We also go to 'the pictures' to see a film, not the cinema to watch a movie.

Snap Kim

Thanks Kim and Kate of course it is Gordon Bennett. ??When I hear my half Italian niece say it with an accent it really amuses me.

Wireless not radio. Spuds not potatoes.

NanKate it should be ‘best bib and tucker’ which meant one’s best clothes - not a ‘bib’ as we know it nowadays to protect clothes from spills.

I was just reading yesterday this list of 50 phrases that are at risk of being lost to the British Language:

www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/the-50-saying-at-risk-of-being-lost-from-our-language-and-what-they-mean?fbclid=IwAR0fNcMNYzvJ1gFJWOWT7QI81oCV0r1PX4vnKQNWYIkZbo85ADp_dCAJw2Q

I certainly still use several of them (but then I'm old!)

Thanks Urm I realise now you are right. I’ll let DH continue saying it. ?

Do you remember in the 1970s or thereabouts we used to say ‘swinging’ and ‘groovy’.

Black as Newgate’s knocker.

going to hell in a handcart ,one of my grannies sayings that I find reasons to use almost every day just now

'As black as Egypt's night'.

A bit dark over the back of Bill's mother's

As nesh as a gas mantle ( fragile, feels the cold etc)
You look like you come off the Lunt ( dirty)
Your hair looks like you’ve been to bed in it.

Snazzy.
All the rage.

When we were stuffy and had untidy hair my Mum would tell us " you look like you' ve been dragged through a hedge backwards " and 'put on your best bub and tucker ' meant wear your best clothes - be smart.

GrandmaKT

I was just reading yesterday this list of 50 phrases that are at risk of being lost to the British Language:

www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/the-50-saying-at-risk-of-being-lost-from-our-language-and-what-they-mean?fbclid=IwAR0fNcMNYzvJ1gFJWOWT7QI81oCV0r1PX4vnKQNWYIkZbo85ADp_dCAJw2Q

I certainly still use several of them (but then I'm old!)

Oh l read all that list and l still use most of them in just normal conversation. Soon no one will know what l'm talking about!!

If I look a mess.. “ I look like the wreck of the Hesperus”.

Through a hedge backwards , untidy

I say “as black as the ace of spades”! Probably get in the ear from the pc/woke brigade.

Oh yes Kate1949 I use that one but a slightly different version - bit dark over Will’s mum’s

GrandmaKT

I was just reading yesterday this list of 50 phrases that are at risk of being lost to the British Language:

www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/the-50-saying-at-risk-of-being-lost-from-our-language-and-what-they-mean?fbclid=IwAR0fNcMNYzvJ1gFJWOWT7QI81oCV0r1PX4vnKQNWYIkZbo85ADp_dCAJw2Q

I certainly still use several of them (but then I'm old!)

Thanks for that site, made me chuckle and still use a couple, one comes to mind “couldn’t organise a p—- up in a brewery”. Suits the present situation. A shame these are in danger of being lost, what a shame, much more descriptive than what is used today.
“Sick”, what is that all about???