Words hardly used now

Bob's your uncle,
Fanny's your aunt,
Your granny's in the RAF!

I've never heard all of that saying before.

Now we're cooking with gas

Do you think I came up in a banana boat?

Worth a bob or two.

How about boz-eyed

MissAdventure GOAT = Greatest Of All Time.

Having put my thinking cap on, I've come up with this hotch-potch of words and phrases that were familiar to me in my in 1950's/1960s childhood. I imagine a good number would be met with blank stares of incomprehension if slipped into conversation with anyone not of a similar vintage.

skedaddle - leave a place quickly
vamoose - leave a place hurriedly
moonlight flit, do a bunk - leave rented accomodation without paying
baksheesh - money given as a tip
buckshee - free, without a charge
smithereens - as in smash to smithereens (pieces)
shemozzle - noisy confusion, hullabaloo
schnozzle - nose
bonce - head
give someone a fourpenny one - hit with the fist, maybe with the aid of a knuckleduster
skewwhiff - not straight
spend a penny - euphemism for going to the toilet
dekko - a look, as in 'take a dekko'
yakking - talking excessively
battleaxe - a quarrelsome woman
cummerbund - mens broad waistband
muffler - scarf worn around the neck
cloth-ears/cloth-eared - hard of hearing
ragamuffin / urchin - a child in ragged, dirty clothes
jalopy - an old car
play hooky - to truant from school
willy-nilly - like it or not

Oh they're all excellent!

In that case, I don't mind being a goat, HowVeryDareYou

That is a wonderful selection of common expressions which I havnt heard in many a long year skippy. Thanks for the memories.

SkippyO some of those are brilliant. I often call my husband Cloth Ears

i hear junior aged children saying
oh my days !
which sounds quite antiquated to me.
i think it spread out from urban black speech.
(i never heard it when i was young).

Stop being mardy. 😏

Got the hump.
Getting on my wick.
Face like a wet weekend.

Jollop. My dad always says if something’s stuck ‘Just put a bit of jollop on it’

Casdon A friend of mine says she's had some jollop when she's had a drink

I heard a word today that I haven't heard for about 30 years: what a palarva! (meaning what a lot of upset and fuss).

Country bumpkin

Palaver is in common use round here

I say palaver, an rigmarole

illegitimate

Illegitimate ba....... a nasty phrase

Brassiere.

Unmentionables.
Smalls (knickers)

Crikey
Blimey
Bippy (“You can bet your bippy”)
Bogart

Just a few of my favourites!

Bippy... what does that mean, please?
I've only heard it a couple of times from a family where the mum breast fed until the children could talk, and a breast was a bippy.