Old fashioned expressions you still use.

That list in the link given by GrandmaT is totally arbitrary. Some expressions are Biblical, some are from the war, some are even more recent. Some are probably Shakespearean. Some will go out of date - that's how language works. I suppose it's up to us to keep the more interesting ones alive, and teach them to the next generation.

Should be “show” not “cart”

Swimming baths must date me.

Reminds me of
after the Lord Mayor’s cart … Oopsadaisy

If you left the door open , ‘were you born in a field’?
Who is ‘she’ the cats mother?
The wind will change and you’ll keep that face.
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.
When asked what there was to eat ‘if it’ , which meant if we had it we could eat it. ( usually bread and jam)
Do you think Money grows on trees?

My life can be replayed in well known phrases or sayings, my mum had one for every occasion. Sometimes when I speak my Mother comes out!

u and non-u
Vacation

I call DH old fashioned when he uses these phrases.

Lady muck of dung hill
Fur coat no knickers
If you can’t fight wear a big hat
Age before beauty, to which we would reply, shit before the shovel ( we were very common)
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear

'Spend a penny'.

*niece’s

Much to my fashionable nieces’s amusement I say trendy!

It’s raining cats and dogs !

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???

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

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

Through a hedge backwards , untidy

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

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!!

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.

Snazzy.
All the rage.

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.

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

'As black as Egypt's night'.

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

Black as Newgate’s knocker.

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