Old fashioned expressions you still use.

"Spit and polish"
"Ship shape and Bristol fashion"
"You'd better pull your socks up"
"Shanksies pony"
"Longshanks"

Oh, and does anyone still say passed with flying colours?

When I asked what was for dinner I was told 'bread and poulet'.
But as a child I thought mum was saying 'pull it' which I always found odd because we weren't allowed to play with our food ?
Gordon Bennett is still said by me.... along with
Were you born in a barn?
What do you think this is, Blackpool illuminations?
And for my fellow Scots
Haud yer wheesht ?
(I'm not directing that at my fellow Scots!!)
Im very happy to lose some phrases that are offensive now. My father had quite a few.

Asking whats for dinner in my house got the answer
"sh*t with sugar on."

Enough blue in the sky to make a pair of sailors trousers

Maggs My dad said “ Pigs feet and custard”.

Giddy old wilk (All got up fancy dressed) .. Up to Dick and down to Harry .. done properly..

Gordon Bennett. When you are shocked, surprised, my mum used to say it often, I do now,

In and out like a fiddler's elbow.

Okey dokey

Clod hopper

I’ve heard an old male family member reply, “ going to point Percy at the porcelain.” When asked where he was going to.

MaggsMcG

Asking whats for dinner in my house got the answer
"sh*t with sugar on."

My mother used to say ' A slice of a cat and a rosy rat' when asked what was for dinner .

Fur coat and nae knickers
Were you born in a barn
Well, I'll go t'foot of our stairs
Gordon Bennett
Blood and sand

My Irish mum when asked what's for dinner would say "bees knees, pig's trawheens and doolamauns"....roughly translated as pig's trotters and cow pats I think I still say it to my grandchildren!

She also used to say "it's black over by Bill's mother's " which I thought meant up near my grandma's as my dad's name was Bill!!

Referring to how mean his cousin was, my Dad used to say "she'd skin a flea for its hide". My Mum used to say "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking". In a similar vein, when I lived in Glasgow in the 1970s/80s I heard people say "I didnae come up the Clyde in a wheelbarrow".
Mum was full of sayings (many of them definitely not PC nowadays) - "as black as the ace of spades", "a few sandwiches short of a picnic". When she was astounded by something she'd heard she used to say "well I go to the foot of our stairs". If the rain eased off and there was a bit of blue in the sky she'd say that if there was enough blue to make a pair of Dutchman's trousers it would stay dry. On the other hand, if it was " bit black over Bill's mother's" then rain was on its way. As well as her colourful ayings Mum had a large lexicon of superstitions, many of which haunt me to this day.

"Do you think I've just fell off a flittin'?" /Do you think I'm stupid
Gob on a stick/won't shut up!
"Couldn't run a bath"/useless bosses!
Going to hell in a hand cart.
Has a face only a mother could love/ahem!
"No better than she ought to be"/ search meimnot sure how this one works think it's an insult!

Yes MaggsMcG that's what my mother got told as a child when asking what was for dinner. My MIL used to say hair pie and windy pudding.

Nannagarra

Snazzy.
All the rage.

I still use snazzy!

I say Gordon Bennett instead of colourful language

Are ya mackin gam. Meaning are you having a laugh/you're joking . Got the first penny his mother ģave him meaning someone was a skinflint. Here's me head me arse is following. That means someone needs to straighten there back

Where you born in a barn. Not shutting the door to keep the heat in

What’s for dinner. Bread and butter and a run round the table.

Charlie’s dead, your underskirt was showing.

She could talk the hind leg off a donkey.

Dresses to the nines

Fur coat and no knickers

Casting pearls before swine

Blow that for a game of soldiers.

My DF used to say "smack and hammer thst" when surprised about something.

Kerbstone fairy
Ladies of the night
My nans sayings to describe ladies who sold there bodies for money. She mainly used it to describe women not wearing a lot of clothes & too much makeup for a night out. She also used “the sights you see when you haven’t got a gun’.

Going to see a man about a dog. My Dad usd

If someone is cross they are in 'high dudgeon'.

Witzend my son, daughter and I love quoting from that BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. One of my son's favourites is "You must do what you think is right!" (Mr Darcy to Mr Bingley) This is my son's response to anything I say that suggests I intend to do something, whether significant or totally trivial. We've watched that brilliant series over and over again. I think I'll have it on again tonight! ?