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Old fashioned expressions you still use.

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NanKate Fri 28-Jan-22 21:29:34

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 ?

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 19:15:52

I'll knock you into kindom come. (Or next week)

Bridgeit Sat 29-Jan-22 19:13:40

- You will be laughing the other side of your face in a minute -

Grandmafrench Sat 29-Jan-22 19:09:49

Well, I'm clearly daft. That should have read "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking" ?

Grandmafrench Sat 29-Jan-22 19:08:23

My Mum:

'Champagne taste - beer money' about someone with airs and graces

'Couldn't stop a pig in a passage' someone bow legged

'I'm not as daft as I'm cabbage looking' - to someone who tried to fool her

'A face that only his mother could love' - about someone in love with their own appearance

'All mouth and trousers' - a man too full of his own importance!

Nannytopsy Sat 29-Jan-22 19:00:25

My mum said that too Kate. I always think its a Black Country expression.
A very distant relative - their cat walked up our entry.

Kate1949 Sat 29-Jan-22 18:42:12

Some of these bring back memories. My husband still says this. If someone is bow legged, he says 'He couldn't stop a pig in an entry'.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 18:33:46

My mum used to say she'd swing for us.

mokryna Sat 29-Jan-22 18:30:11

I remember nearly all of the above, another my mother said, ‘you’re not worth swinging for’. Must have push her nearly to the edge.

Jezra Sat 29-Jan-22 18:24:37

I used to say,”Woops a daisy!” if I did something wrong at work to the amusement of younger colleagues.

Aveline Sat 29-Jan-22 18:12:14

HKLP!

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 17:57:42

Flibbertygibbit

EllanVannin Sat 29-Jan-22 17:56:17

Spiffing.

Kali2 Sat 29-Jan-22 17:55:31

Toodle Pip

Hopikins Sat 29-Jan-22 17:51:20

If it was raining, my mother always said "don't forget your gamp. Never umbrella.

Hiraeth Sat 29-Jan-22 17:51:20

Daylight robbery ! My mother always used that expression when something was too expensive .

Esspee Sat 29-Jan-22 17:48:08

The only ones I have never used are pip pip and the one about witches.
I shall try them out on my children. My guess is they will never have used a lot of them but will understand a good many.
Yammy. In Scotland it is “haud yer wheesht” meaning stop speaking or be quiet.

EllanVannin Sat 29-Jan-22 17:36:30

What's for dinner ? Bread and slap or bread'n'erring.
I couldn't eat a stuffed raisin---mum after a big dinner.

Next door neighbour telling mum he'd just put manure on his rhubarb----we have custard on ours Mr S.

EllanVannin Sat 29-Jan-22 17:28:25

Another mean relative----I bet he can peel an orange in his pocket.
You're the biggest mug on the pot stall---if dad had been diddled after a purchase.
She's got a face like bad fat-----a miserable neighbour.
If I was sulking mum would tell me I'd stick like it.

I couldn't spit sixpence---mum when she was thirsty.

BridgetPark yes I've heard the " beans " one except dad used to ask how many blue beans make 5----believe it or not I paused when he first asked that grin

Judy54 Sat 29-Jan-22 17:14:28

Tickety boo
A man on a galloping horse would not notice (meaning your being to fussy)
You will laugh on the other side of your face
Their are good things in small packages

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 17:12:24

What's for dinner?
Air pie and kick of the cat.

Gin Sat 29-Jan-22 17:08:59

Wasn’t it mercury they used in hat making?

One my Mum used ( usually about me) ‘you could jaw the hind leg off a donkey’ meaning I never stopped talking.

When things did not go right ‘well it was the best butter’!

BridgetPark Sat 29-Jan-22 16:57:44

My dearest departed father had this one, I Know how many beans make five... in case anyone thought him not quick enough to catch on. I believe it may have been from the military. Anyone else heard it? The reply is..two beans, a bean, a bean and a half, and half a bean...

SandraF Sat 29-Jan-22 16:44:55

My mother, a Brummie wench, used to say of someone being over helpful, ` Proffered services sometimes stink'. Never heard anyone else say it or seen it in print.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 16:35:38

Charlie's dead was said here, for a slip showing.
It sounds ridiculous, now.

Septimia Sat 29-Jan-22 16:24:36

How about "It's snowing down under" if someone's petticoat/slip is showing beneath the hem of their skirt? Probably no-one wears them these days.

DH said that one of the saying reportedly going out of use is "Mad as a hatter" because hats are no longer made using lead, which poisoned the hat-makers.