Old fashioned expressions you still use.

“I’m going to spend a penny”, no-one knows where the saying comes from these days!

Oh yes, I remember "By Jove". Father and brothers used to say it a lot. Nice memory.

Fine words butter no parsnips here.

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.

I still "spend a penny" !

'Nothings bad that could be worse' my Irish mother in laws favourite quote. & another relative from Yorkshire ' I wish I was in bed without the bother'
'Born in a barn ' - 'Behind the door when looks were given out' - 'What you gawping about' from my London born Mum

This was a lovely trip down memory lane! My parents used to say a lot of these. My mother would say "I can't spit sixpence" when she was dying for a cup of tea. I still use quite a lot of them.

But my parents would also say, "It's cold enough for a pair of reins," which is completely mystifying.

Hark at pan calling kettle black.

Since Line if Duty we all say ‘mother of God’now!

My tech savvy 27 year old dd still uses a lovely phrase, ‘Oki Doki’.

Oh my toe bone! (when you stub your toe)

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking.
You make a better door than a window.
It's raining cats and dogs

I can remember my lovely Gran saying, "don't burn that light". Meaning turn the light off, even though by that time electricity was in her house, she still referred to it as "burning". xx

Spend a penny! My grandson asked where the penny was.

"Going round Aunt Fanny's garden" - taking the long way round for anything!
Another non PC was one of my dad's "Black as old Harry's mother" for when the sky is dark and stormy
"You look like you've slept in it " which could cover anything - hair, clothing etc , meaning you look scruffy
"With a lick and a promise" usually when either having a quick wash or giving a child a quick wash - think of the time when you were asked to spit or lick your mum's hanky and she used to use it to wipe chocolate or dirt etc off your face !

“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!)”

I use an awful lot of these regularly! ?

Nelly's room behind the wallpaper, in answer to. Mum/Nan were are you . It's not as if I live in a big house .

When going for lunch: 'going to strap on the feed bag'.
I still use tickety-boo when something is completed tidily.
When someone is weak, 'they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag'.

'I'm going to check on the goldfish' (going to the loo)
Turns out that the public lavatories in Rothesay had see-through cisterns, and folks put real goldfish inside. Kids would pester their parents for a penny to see them rise and fall when they pulled the chainn.

My granny used to have some good ones:

He'd skin a flea then sell it a vest. (a meanie)
He'll say anything but his prayers. (a liar)
They don't spoil two houses. (a couple who are both annoying)
He's like dot and carry one. (someone with a limp)
I've got a bone in my leg. (an excuse not to do something)

Counterpane.

I call a top bed cover a counterpane. My son said "counterpane" to his partner a lot younger than he, and she was very amused. "Who on Earth talks about counterpanes!"

Get off up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
My Nanna used to say ‘there’s no pockets in a shroud if people were being tight.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be (my other gran)

well there you go, yoau'll av to gew all around the wrekin

I could see the Wrekin from my aunt's house, JaneJudge, from right across the plain. 35 miles?

If you can't see The Wrekin it's raining.
If you can see the Wrekin it's going to rain.

Gordon Bennet