Old fashioned expressions you still use.

Clod hopper

Okey dokey

In and out like a fiddler's elbow.

Gordon Bennett. When you are shocked, surprised, my mum used to say it often, I do now,

Giddy old wilk (All got up fancy dressed) .. Up to Dick and down to Harry .. done properly..

Maggs My dad said “ Pigs feet and custard”.

Enough blue in the sky to make a pair of sailors trousers

Asking whats for dinner in my house got the answer
"sh*t with sugar on."

When I asked what was for dinner I was told 'bread and poulet'.
But as a child I thought mum was saying 'pull it' which I always found odd because we weren't allowed to play with our food ?
Gordon Bennett is still said by me.... along with
Were you born in a barn?
What do you think this is, Blackpool illuminations?
And for my fellow Scots
Haud yer wheesht ?
(I'm not directing that at my fellow Scots!!)
Im very happy to lose some phrases that are offensive now. My father had quite a few.

Oh, and does anyone still say passed with flying colours?

"Spit and polish"
"Ship shape and Bristol fashion"
"You'd better pull your socks up"
"Shanksies pony"
"Longshanks"

Alioop

The boy stood in the burning deck
His knees were all a quiver
Then his wooden leg fell off
And floated down the river

I'm afraid our version was:
The boy stood on the burning deck,
His feet were full of blisters,
The fire came up and burnt his pants,
So now he wears his sister's!

Lucca

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

My mum always used this one. I use several of the phrases on the list and one l say is "as rare as hen's teeth," which is similar to once in a blue moon. My grandmother, from Staffordshire, used to say "well, I'll go to Stoke" rather than the foot of our stairs and we still say "all around the Wrekin" when either a journey has gone a long way round or someone is droning on and not getting to the point of what they are saying.

We say fur coat and no knickers, and red and green, never seen, except upon a fool.

I am mocked by my children for always saying "television", "telephone" and "dustbins" instead of TV, phone and bins!

‘Darker than the black hole of Calcutta’. If it was very dark outside.
‘Water off a ducks back’ to mean it didn’t mean anything to the person you were saying it to.
‘Up the wooden hill’. Going upstairs

Some of my lovely mum’s sayings:
Someone sneaky could “get weer watter can’t”
When splashing out on something “go on, give t’cat a goldfish”
When I wanted something we couldn’t afford “you’re having nothing till I’ve had a fur coat”
If I had scruffy hair it was “sticking out like chapel hat pegs”
When busy she was “as throng as Throp’s wife”
When I couldn’t do something it would be “I’ve taught you all I know and you still know nowt”

Haha, yes the 'time' thing- if i say it like that my 2 youngest AC are mistified- especially the 18 year old, who only knows time in digital?

Yes old sayings are alive and well in both lancashire (where i now live) & yorkshire (where I'm from) ??

“Five and twenty to” the hour, my grandchildren are always pulling me up about it. Also “up and down like a barmaid’s apron”, and “knickers in a twist”.

Piffy on a rock cake means a person left out of something- i presume balm cake is a northwest substitute for rock cake?(balm cakes are the same as a yorkshire teacake!) A bit like wasting your time being there while others talk shop for example.

Libman

NanKate

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 ?

Something with ‘Charlie’ in it? Can’t quite remember…..

Actually I think that was the phrase ‘ Charlie’s dead’ when someone’s slip/petticoat was showing. ?

Many of the old sayings that we use today are a reminder of our past , who used them and said them, I use patience is a virtue to my grandson, and all that glitters is not gold, also wheres there's a will there's a relative. Love old sayings its part of us all .

Going on Shanks’s pony (walking) - a bitter disappointment to me when my gran first used it!

Breda

When I was a child my mother would refer to us children as needing a “cats lick” (a wash) before we went to bed each night. My own children hated the phrase!

Mine used a similar phrase - "a lick and a promise" for a quick wash (the promise being to be more thorough next time).