"Old fashioned" expressions that young people have never heard.

Got the painters in - having your period.

He looks like his trousers divorced his shoes.

He was as fit as a lop. Said by my Uncle if someone died unexpectedly.

I think a lop was a flea and the saying was As fit as a lop and twice as active!

I like that.
A lop...
I'll have to find some way to weave it into a conversation.

Until I was iny twenties, I'd never heard "Like a piffy on a barmcake", but I love that.
Northern, I'm sure.

Kissing girls and missing teeth is a really common phrase. Or so I thought

Up the wooden hill(stairs) to bed.

Buggy juice.

I’ve got eyes in the back of my head.

Cat got your tongue?

And my grandad’s favourite if I asked him where he was going; to get a wigwam for a horse’s bridle.

Greenfinch

Up the wooden hill(stairs) to bed.

…and down sheet lane!

Not heard that one Izzy.

I remember my mum saying this is as bad as 'Caseys Court' when me and my four siblings were making a lot of noise or rushing and tearing around.
Apparently the saying came from an old music hall group. Google for info if interested. 😊

And my grandad’s favourite if I asked him where he was going; to get a wigwam for a horse’s bridle.

Just spotted this. My mother's response to questions such as 'what is in that interesting looking parcel at the top of your wardrobe just before Christmas?' would be: 'a whim-wham for a mustard-mill.'
Never heard anyone use it before.

Irate mother to child - Stop doing that or I'll box your ears!
Same irate mother - You'll be smiling on the other side of your face if I get hold of you!
Irate father to child stood in his line of vision to the telly - Shift, tha's not made of glass!
And the old favourite - Put wood in'th 'ole!

Also my Nan used to threaten us with being "sent to the bad ship Calyoh" if we were naughty.
And I remember calling round for friends shouting "Now" before their name as we knocked on the door as in "Now, Margaret". No idea why, it was just the thing to do 😁

If i asked my dad where he was going he would say " round our bill's mothers house " so still didn't know where he was off too

Up the hill to Bedfordshire at bedtime. My Mum used to say, "Run round table" when we asked what was for tea.

We would say the budgie must be dead, your trousers are at half mast, if the trousers were short.

‘ Raining in Paris’ was for the ‘petticoat’ showing.
(In Paris, they would say, ‘ Vous cherchez une belle- mêre?’ ( Are you looking for a mother in law?)

* MissAdventure*, my Yorkshire friend had Piffy on a rock bun.

* Doodledog*, my wee auntie always talked about a ‘ European quilt’

And how many Scottish ( or maybe Glaswegian?) people would say a messy house or room was like ‘ Annaker’s midden’?
( Apparently Annaker was a Glasgow pork butcher, and it was said that the poor people would rummage in his midden ( rubbish tip) looking for scraps.

Ilovecheese

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

I remember that one, though my grandma's version usually began with 'Eeh', rather than 'Well' 😁

Daddima

NotSpaghetti

Or in full.. as in "I beg your pardon."

And with the emphasis on ‘BEG’, to indicate you can’t believe what you’re hearing!

Yes!

Realky

Do you remember the song?
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden?
youtu.be/OLo4j7QXxp4?is=NJLaqZj8vsu6Wx4-

That song keeps cropping up as an earworm of mine every so often!

Casdon

I’ll have a pint of jollop.
It’s all my eye and Betty Martin - my nanna used to say that, I never quite understood, I think it was when somebody was trying to flannel her (actually I doubt if my children would know what somebody flanneling you means either)

My Mum used to say "it's all my eye and Peggy Martin" maybe a regional thing.

Where are you going?
Round the corner and up Jack's arse.

What's for dinner?
Air pie, and kick of the cat.

My ex-boss, she absolutely hated her manager, professionally and personally, and would claim ''She's a bovine with a blocked-up nose, " which was her way of saying ''snotty cow''!

Another colleague, her husband, literally dropped dead on the golf course; she told me when she heard what had happened ''One felt quite nauseous" instead of ''I felt sick"!

When someone asks me ''How are you?'' I always reply ''Subnormal'' or ''Abnormal''. It gets them laughing!

I always say duvet instead of continental quilt.

MissAdventure

Whingey .....HA HA HA!

We would say the budgie must be dead, your trousers are at half mast, if the trousers were short.
It's 'your cat's died' round here!

My Mum had loads of sayings- one she used often was , when looking out of the window at rain clouds overhead, "Ooh its black over Bill's mother's"- meaning it lookes stormy out, but I never fathomed who Bill was, or his mother!
When referring to children who ran rings round their parents she'd say ' Tommy has got his mother on a butty'.
Growing up in NW England, near Manchester, a 'butty' was a sandwich, so the saying never made any sense to me. It was many years later when I watched a tv programme about narrowboats, some of which were towing a 'butty' that the 'penny dropped'- and that in itself is another saying!
'My eye and Peggy Martin' was a favourite of hers too, I wonder who Peggy was and how that saying originated?

Tell it to the Marines, a fave saying from Dad.