A pint of wallop! (Just for fun).

My father would say Up the wooden hill and down sheet lane, for bedtime. Also going to Ourgate for our holidays

"Sweet Fanny Adams," used by my Dad, when he was angry at something. I used to wonder who she was! ?

'Spend a penny' came from the penny in the slot public toilets.

OldHag

My Mum took the 'elegant sufficiency' one step further, her phrase when asked if she would like a second helping of something was 'no thank you, I've had elegant sufficiency of that nutritious element!' Always used to make us laugh.

A little dd once said, ‘I’m stuffed to the highest heaven’ which was an instant ‘hit’ and has long since entered family parlance.

Yes, I remember my parents, in East Yorkshire, saying, "a pint of wallop" for beer. (I have a feeling it was actually, at one time, a brand name.) Jollop was something like liquid paraffin for the constipated. (I don't mean actual paraffin!)
'Bread and pullet' is what we were told we were having for tea.

My Aunt Molly would say if asked where she was going 'up Aldgate pump to get a bike out'. Wonderful cockney lady loved her to bits.

My friend's son rendered an elegant sufficiency as an elephant Stephanie.

Up the wooden hill to blanket bay

My Aunt used to say.. Hame'lldayme ..is a lovely place you know when talking about holidays. It's a Scottish turn of phrase for staying home.

Let’s go through and let the cart hang .( Lets get up from the dinner table to sit in the front room .
That knife wouldn’t cut a turd from a dogs arse .
(Blunt knife)

Oh I've just remembered one more. Apologies to anyone who is visually impaired. When I couldn't find or see something right in front of me, my Dad would say - A blind man, on a foggy night, three streets away in a blackout could see that!!! I love my Dad. I'll stop now.

Oh there are so many from my childhood, mainly used by my Dad!

When someone burped - Shut tha gate the pigs are out.

Another pig one - He couldn't stop a pig in a passage. Usually referring to someone's incompetence. But I believe it was used originally to describe someone with bandy legs.

When describing weak tea - That's not weak its helpless!

Its looking black o'er Bills Mothers. Not sure what this meant, other than it looked like rain!

This was said to me often when I tried to 'glam' myself up as a young teen. You look like Nellie Wallace!! I'm off to google Nellie Wallace now as I have no idea who she was!!

My grandads take on weak tea “ gnats eye lotion “

My father, whenever we visited somewhere that was a bit of a drive away, always said "well, we're here and to prove it we've arrived".

He was also another one who had a bone in his leg...

Nice to see some Bedfordshire grans. We might be neighbours! My mum also used to say: well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs, when she heard surprising news.

What a wonderful selection of obscure sayings. Some nicer than others.

Leonora2
half past cheese and a breadknife
We used to say, two hairs past a spot, and it meant I'm not wearing a watch

GillT57
Thank you for A cloot, for the uninitiated, is the muslin cloth used to steam a pudding.
I always wondered why a clootie dumpling was called that!

And a BIG thank you to MargaretinNorthant for the one I want to start using myself, I've had an elephant and fish for tea. You really wouldn't need more to eat after that!

If I asked what was for dinner it was”bread & pullet, sit on the stairs and eat it”. ?‍♀️
Or if something was lost it was”up in Fanny’s room behind the clock”. Still don’t know who Fanny was.
If I asked what something was it was “a whim wham to wind the sun up”.

One granma would say in reply to same question "lamb fries and turkey trotters!" The lamb sounded delish, until we learned what they were when we got older!!!

We'd ask mama what's for tea? She'd say "Scheißreis und Kartoffels musch!" Well there rice and potato peelings in there and something else I couldn't repeat!

My M-in-L, who was from Newton-le-Willows, would often reply to the enquiry from her g'children "what you doing?" with the phrase "making layles (?) for meddlers".
No, we couldn't work it out either and somehow never got around to asking (!) so help regarding this odd phrase would be appreciated now.

Like my pants best out of sight was one of my mum's favourites.

An ample sample to describe enough food.
Fair rips my knitting —-when really annoyed by something or someone!

Were you born in a park?
(door was left open) or a hospital with swinging doors, was used regularly if someone left a door opened and let the heat out (before central heating)
When dad was going to the pub, he would say to us children when we asked where he was going that he was away to see a man about a dog!
As I child I would hear adults saying- If I don't see you through the week then I'll see you through the windae (window) lol

If something hadn't turned out too well, my Grandma used to say, "Oh well, a blind man would be glad to see it."

Where you going? There and back to see how far it is.
what's for dinner? air Pie and windy pudding.
an adequate sufficiency, when you had enough of something.