Old fashioned expressions you still use.

I’ll save it for the big film.
After being given a sweet during the B film.

Would you be as quick in my grave?
If I sat in my father’s chair.

I still say.

As black as the pot.

Somethings not quite tickety boo here.

Loads of others as well.

I still stay “Going to powder my nose” when out for a meal and leaving the table.

Saw this and thought of this thread.

Didn’t see ‘spanner in the works’ on that list. It’s probably been added here somewhere but too many to check through now.

I'm not sure if it's just an Irish saying but if someone's running behind on a task:
Look at the time and not a child in the house washed.

I remember Terry Wogan saying that Beswitched!

My mother used to look in the mirror and say she looked like the wild wild woman of Borneo.
Dad used to say steady past your granny's. Gone to see a man about a dog. There and back to see how far it is. A wim wam for a mustard mill and that he had a bone in his leg!

My mother used to look in the mirror and say she looked like the wild wild woman of Borneo.

My mother used that expression too! I'm not sure it would be acceptable nowadays. ?

My mother used to look in the mirror and say she looked like the wild wild woman of Borneo

Golly, my mother did too! You've just reminded me.
I wonder why Borneo in particular? Was there anything topical at the time, maybe?

My mum said it, too.

I found this:

What is the origin of the expression: "The Wild Woman of Borneo"? I know it was around as early as the 1940s because I remember it as a child back then, but where did it come from?

I believe this comes from the Victorian circus habit of calling their black show people 'wild' and often attributing their origin to 'Borneo'. They were often displayed wearing only a loin cloth, or similar tropical coverings, wielding a spear, or similar. The crowds were attracted with the call. 'Roll up, roll up, see the wild man of Borneo' The 'wild man of Borneo' was well established as a concept in the UK before WW2, and possibly earlier. The 'woman' version is merely an extension.^

and this image :

Oh dear.
Better make sure that one is put firmly out of use.

Oh, goodness, I must stop saying that

I shall say that I look as if I've been pulled through a hedge backwards instead.

Beswitched

I'm not sure if it's just an Irish saying but if someone's running behind on a task:
Look at the time and not a child in the house washed.

My Nanna used to say "Six o'clock and no baby bathed!".

Today's parents don't even do the daily bath routine as it destroys the natural oils on the skin. I see their point, but it was nice to have a routine and a cuddle of a warm clean baby in a nice fluffy towel.

Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet.

(My Nanna wasn't Irish but my grandfather was.)

"I'll have your guts for garters."
Awful, when you stop to think what it means.

Marydoll

I found this:

What is the origin of the expression: "The Wild Woman of Borneo"? I know it was around as early as the 1940s because I remember it as a child back then, but where did it come from?

I believe this comes from the Victorian circus habit of calling their black show people 'wild' and often attributing their origin to 'Borneo'. They were often displayed wearing only a loin cloth, or similar tropical coverings, wielding a spear, or similar. The crowds were attracted with the call. 'Roll up, roll up, see the wild man of Borneo' The 'wild man of Borneo' was well established as a concept in the UK before WW2, and possibly earlier. The 'woman' version is merely an extension.^

and this image :

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To dad on getting ready to go out---hurry up, you'd be late for your own funeral, as mum would say.

On describing a small person ( size )---he's/she's only twopenn'orth of copper.

A 'uman pullthrough' my nan's description of a slightly built person.

Another similar one. 'Ten o'clock and not a child in the house washed'.

Mogsmaw

I’d be told I looked like “the wreck of the Hesperus” or “I was away to one side like Gourock” by my mother. I always knew what she meant, but I didn’t under the reference.

Am I wrong in thinking that Gourock is all to one side, because the other side of the town is the River Clyde?

"Straight as a dog's hind leg" said by my mother, usually when I had done the parting in my hair myself. Or indeed of anything else that was " all skew-wiff".

"the Hesperus was the ship in a lengthy poem learned by school-children that began with the words "The boy stood on the burning deck" I haven't a clue who wrote it, but remember it being in our school poetry book.