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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 ?

GillT57 Sat 29-Jan-22 15:50:39

Oh, and;

He could light a cigarette in his pocket ( a mean uncle)

MrsEggy Sat 29-Jan-22 15:54:04

My Mom would say "a blind man would be glad to see it" to me complaining about some imperfection on my clothes, or a spot on my face.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 15:56:09

Enough blue to make a sailor a pair of trousers.
A tit in a trance.
A fart in a colander.
You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Jan-22 15:58:42

One eye and a whilk.

Yammy Sat 29-Jan-22 16:08:02

There's a Jock for every Ginny.everyones got a partner
Lockerbie Jocks ......Scotsmen
Eliphano said when someone did not know the answer DH thought it was an animal
Hod thee wished please be quiet
They didn't know if the were coming or gaan[going]
We also still knock our lights out instead of switching them off.
Pidgeon toed and splay footed
Biddie a hair louse

Urmstongran Sat 29-Jan-22 16:09:02

When off to do some ironing she’d tell us she was off to a board meeting.

Pittcity Sat 29-Jan-22 16:11:07

DH goes to the barber for a "fourpenny all-off". It costs him £8!!

"If you fall over and break your leg don't come running to me."

Luckygirl3 Sat 29-Jan-22 16:13:48

Right as a trivet - my DDs think this is hysterical for some reason.

Yammy Sat 29-Jan-22 16:14:29

and they've got enough lip to flag a duck hull[shed]
Going to see a man about a dog.

Kate1949 Sat 29-Jan-22 16:17:25

If I asked my mother, who was Irish, how I looked when I was going out, she would say 'No man will get down off his horse to look at you'.

lixy Sat 29-Jan-22 16:17:25

We go 'up the hill to Bedfordshire'.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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’!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Toodle Pip

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

Spiffing.