Old fashioned expressions you still use.

Alioop

Sloegin I was going to say face like a Lurgan spade, but thought no one would know it ?
Houl your whist (wait)
Close that door, were you born in a field.

You must have Northern Ireland connections if you know face like a Lurgan spade! I grew up in Fermanagh, did my nurse training in Belfast,lived in Kent and Devon so picked up a lot over the years. I loved one I used to hear in Fermanagh, to describe someone with a big bottom-she has a backside on her like Curley Wilson's gig! I remember an old Cockney chap I nursed used to say,' Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt' when a procedure was completed. I was familiar with Bob's your uncle but Fanny's your aunt was new to me !

Press the tit ?
Belly up!
Gone South?

Looked at the list GrandmaKT- not sure they've got right description on number 42- "off to see a man about a dog" was, and is, still used in the north, but can be said when someone is off to sort out something that they don't want to tell other folk about- not necessarily about the the toilet!! ?

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…..

Swimming baths for the fancy Leisure Centre

When Dad was going to to visit the loo he used to say he was going to see a man about a dog. We always wondered why.

My dad also said the "How many beans make 5", but his other one was:- 2 ducks in front of a duck, 2 ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks?

hf59 - I always had to say "Please may I leave the table, thank you for a very nice meal". My children also said this.

Another vote here for " wreck of the Hesperus"- I still say this.

"Like one o'clock, half struck" - describing someone just standing about, or dithering, ie not getting on with it.

If I said " Well, I thought..." ( usually preceeding an argument), my dad would either say " Well you know what thought did - thought wrong!" Or " Well you know what thought did - followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding!"

All p* and wind like the barber’s cat.
And “a little Pearl Harbour today”
Of course everything is PC now so I can think of others we daren’t say now (only at home)!

Yes best bib & tucker is meaning dressing your best! Gawd, theres loads i still use that my late mam used all the time. I think its a Northern thing
mostly, or Eastenders still in the south, all the use of old 'sayings'.Long may they continue i say!?

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

My mum used to say “ Up Wooden Hill and down Sheet Lane” when it was bedtime,

My mil used to say “ why’re you sitting there like Piffy on a balm cake?”

I knew what she meant but had no idea where the saying came from.

Any ideas?

I use:
Wreck of the Hesparus
Aike back of Arum, where they shoo pigs wi steam (pure East Yorkshire)
Crikey

The boy stood on the burning deck
Blistering in the heat
His eyes were full of tears
And his boots were full of feet

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!

She favvers she's dropped off a flitting - untidy woman

Put wood in t'hole -shut the door

Gordon Bennett

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. ??

At the end of a meal: “Please may I leave the table?”

You had to say it even tho you knew that what was coming next was:

“Well you can’t take it with you!”

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 ?

Gordon Bennett?

His self not his head!

My father 95, said in response to my sister saying she must get on after helping get him washed dressed and breakfasted, ' throats to be cut and wars to be won' !! Turns out his mother used to say it too, and is a quote from Henry 5th Act3 scene2 Shakespeare!

When my Grandson does something well I tell him he’s covered his head in glory!

if you protested as a child: “yes but” this would be countered with : “who’s yes but - the brother of ah but?”

‘Don’t care!” - Don’t care was made to care - put in a pot and boiled his hair!”

“If you don’t ask you don’t get”

“Those who ask don’t get”

Black as the Ace of spades
Dragged through a hedge backwards
We're you born in a barn
Fur hat and no knickers
Penny wise and pound foolish
No smoke without fire
A blonde moment
Lay down with dogs and get up with fleas
Storm in a teacup
Making a mountain out of a molehill
A person is down and out ie very poor