Old fashioned expressions you still use.

Guess what my son will say? ? ? ?

Wireless (for the radio)
Queen Anne front, Mary-Anne behind.
Going to the pictures (cinema)
The baths (swimming pool)
Getting one's knickers in a twist
Don't get eggy (ie agitated. I think that may be a scouse/wirralism)

I still say to my GC (after their visit to the toilet) did you pull the chain? Of course we don't have a chain any more.

When you only had water to drink it was called Coporation Pop.

Mutton dressed as lamb.
Never in a month of Sunday’s.
You aren’t the first and you certainly won’t be the last.

What colour is it? Sky blue pink.

I use nearly all of these and shall now make a point of doing that even more so my grandson learns them!

My aunt used to finish 'There's nowt so queer as folk' with 'except me & thee
And thee's a bit queer....'

Gordon Bennett.

lovebeigecardigans1955

In and out like a fiddler's elbow.

And up and down like a tart’s drawers.

'black as the ace of spades'...........nothing racist about that ! Unless, of course one is referring to people from Africa, India, etc. in a derogatively manner and even many of those races use the same descriptive words. It seems that 'coloured' is not used any more.

When people explain too much detailed information
my Mum used to say - they told me all the ins and outs of a donkeys gallop !
As a child if we couldn't find what was under our noses my Mum used to say we were looking with out elbows.

BBbevan

What colour is it? Sky blue pink.

... with a finny haddy border?

My great aunt used to say ' Black as Egypt's night'. My Gran used to describe small people or children as, 'Two bricks and a hat'.

Bloody Norah!

"Heavens to Murgatroyd!" was used on Call the Midwife last night.

'Flaming Norah'

Rather appropriate at the moment a favourite of my Mum and I still say it occasionally.
“You know where you are with a thief but you can never trust a a liar”.

Sarah Cox on radio 2 has pinched this, and freely admits she got the idea off social media

Pot calling the kettle black.
He'd/she'd sell his/her grandmother for sixpence

Were you born in a barn? when somebody leaves a door open
'Bread and pull it' when asked what's for dinner
'Black as Newgate's Knocker' when it very dark

I deliberately use the word "pinny" with my grandchildren instead of "apron". It's what I grew up with and I think it's nice to keep it going just that little bit longer

Oldnproud ‘pinny ’ is short for pinafore. A full length coverall. An apron goes around the waist. No top bit .

I was amazed a friend of mine had never heard 'up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire'. My own favourites are ' I can't spit sixpence' when thirsty - 'looks like nothing earth with the door shut' which describes untidy or just plain shocking.

My giddy Aunt.

What’s for tea ? Tantaddle tart (this could be a family expression).

Holy Moses