Old fashioned expressions you still use.

The boy stood in the burning deck
His knees were all a quiver
Then his wooden leg fell off
And floated down the river

Yes best bib & tucker is meaning dressing your best! Gawd, theres loads i still use that my late mam used all the time. I think its a Northern thing
mostly, or Eastenders still in the south, all the use of old 'sayings'.Long may they continue i say!?

All p* and wind like the barber’s cat.
And “a little Pearl Harbour today”
Of course everything is PC now so I can think of others we daren’t say now (only at home)!

hf59 - I always had to say "Please may I leave the table, thank you for a very nice meal". My children also said this.

Another vote here for " wreck of the Hesperus"- I still say this.

"Like one o'clock, half struck" - describing someone just standing about, or dithering, ie not getting on with it.

If I said " Well, I thought..." ( usually preceeding an argument), my dad would either say " Well you know what thought did - thought wrong!" Or " Well you know what thought did - followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding!"

My dad also said the "How many beans make 5", but his other one was:- 2 ducks in front of a duck, 2 ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks?

When Dad was going to to visit the loo he used to say he was going to see a man about a dog. We always wondered why.

Swimming baths for the fancy Leisure Centre

NanKate

When DH serves up his weekly stir fry he always says to me ‘Put on your bib and tucker’ knowing I can be a bit messy. ?

When I trip over or make a mistake I say a man’s name (which I can’t remember). I’ve used the name for years. Can you remember it please ?

Something with ‘Charlie’ in it? Can’t quite remember…..

Looked at the list GrandmaKT- not sure they've got right description on number 42- "off to see a man about a dog" was, and is, still used in the north, but can be said when someone is off to sort out something that they don't want to tell other folk about- not necessarily about the the toilet!! ?

Press the tit ?
Belly up!
Gone South?

Alioop

Sloegin I was going to say face like a Lurgan spade, but thought no one would know it ?
Houl your whist (wait)
Close that door, were you born in a field.

You must have Northern Ireland connections if you know face like a Lurgan spade! I grew up in Fermanagh, did my nurse training in Belfast,lived in Kent and Devon so picked up a lot over the years. I loved one I used to hear in Fermanagh, to describe someone with a big bottom-she has a backside on her like Curley Wilson's gig! I remember an old Cockney chap I nursed used to say,' Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt' when a procedure was completed. I was familiar with Bob's your uncle but Fanny's your aunt was new to me !

Breda

When I was a child my mother would refer to us children as needing a “cats lick” (a wash) before we went to bed each night. My own children hated the phrase!

Mine used a similar phrase - "a lick and a promise" for a quick wash (the promise being to be more thorough next time).

Going on Shanks’s pony (walking) - a bitter disappointment to me when my gran first used it!

Many of the old sayings that we use today are a reminder of our past , who used them and said them, I use patience is a virtue to my grandson, and all that glitters is not gold, also wheres there's a will there's a relative. Love old sayings its part of us all .

Libman

NanKate

When DH serves up his weekly stir fry he always says to me ‘Put on your bib and tucker’ knowing I can be a bit messy. ?

When I trip over or make a mistake I say a man’s name (which I can’t remember). I’ve used the name for years. Can you remember it please ?

Something with ‘Charlie’ in it? Can’t quite remember…..

Actually I think that was the phrase ‘ Charlie’s dead’ when someone’s slip/petticoat was showing. ?

Piffy on a rock cake means a person left out of something- i presume balm cake is a northwest substitute for rock cake?(balm cakes are the same as a yorkshire teacake!) A bit like wasting your time being there while others talk shop for example.

“Five and twenty to” the hour, my grandchildren are always pulling me up about it. Also “up and down like a barmaid’s apron”, and “knickers in a twist”.

Yes old sayings are alive and well in both lancashire (where i now live) & yorkshire (where I'm from) ??

Haha, yes the 'time' thing- if i say it like that my 2 youngest AC are mistified- especially the 18 year old, who only knows time in digital?

Some of my lovely mum’s sayings:
Someone sneaky could “get weer watter can’t”
When splashing out on something “go on, give t’cat a goldfish”
When I wanted something we couldn’t afford “you’re having nothing till I’ve had a fur coat”
If I had scruffy hair it was “sticking out like chapel hat pegs”
When busy she was “as throng as Throp’s wife”
When I couldn’t do something it would be “I’ve taught you all I know and you still know nowt”

‘Darker than the black hole of Calcutta’. If it was very dark outside.
‘Water off a ducks back’ to mean it didn’t mean anything to the person you were saying it to.
‘Up the wooden hill’. Going upstairs

I am mocked by my children for always saying "television", "telephone" and "dustbins" instead of TV, phone and bins!

We say fur coat and no knickers, and red and green, never seen, except upon a fool.

Lucca

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

My mum always used this one. I use several of the phrases on the list and one l say is "as rare as hen's teeth," which is similar to once in a blue moon. My grandmother, from Staffordshire, used to say "well, I'll go to Stoke" rather than the foot of our stairs and we still say "all around the Wrekin" when either a journey has gone a long way round or someone is droning on and not getting to the point of what they are saying.

Alioop

The boy stood in the burning deck
His knees were all a quiver
Then his wooden leg fell off
And floated down the river

I'm afraid our version was:
The boy stood on the burning deck,
His feet were full of blisters,
The fire came up and burnt his pants,
So now he wears his sister's!