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

My uncle used to say “Cor Blime My Souls” and I have never heard anyone else say it. I think Old Fashioned Look means a disapproving look, that’s how I have always used it.
Crikey is a word I still use but don’t hear many others using it.
Horrid is another.

Georgesgran

I now ask for 2 cod and chips, as asking for ‘twice’ just brings a puzzled look.

I said that once and the person behind the counter snapped back "I heard you the first time"

Said to someone standing between you and whatever you're looking at - "You'd make a better door than a window".

Fly zip undone - selling matches.

I, like some others, talk about the quilt on my bed, although occasionally call it a downie - think that was maybe a brand name in the early days?

My children and the GCs all tease me for my time notation; ‘five and twenty to’ for just after half past an hour.

cpndrake

Confused my grandchildren when I said that, the eldest said "nana you live in a bungalow"

Ha ha I missed the saying out it was " well I'll go to the foot of our stairs"

So many sayings that I had forgotten!
The first time I felt really old (at around 40 🙄) was when I had to explain what “bent as a nine bob note” meant. I suspect describing something to be black as coal won’t be useful anymore either (what’s coal mum?) as for putting coal on the fire 😱
My dad used to vanish into the shed for hours saying he had a whim wham for a wowzer so he could fix the cab man’s whip stand. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Granny used to swear with”Hell’s bells and buckets of blood “ if it was really bad she’d add “and all God’s little fishes”.

I meant putting coke on the fire! Or even being a coke dealer 😬

When asking my grandmother 'what's for dinner' - her answer always was 'chair legs and mangle handles'!

Triple…. when giving a phone number with 3 3’s in it, the times younger people have replied “ do you mean treble 3” they have never heard the word triple !!
Put your face straight……a favourite of my mothers.

‘Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs! Meaning ‘fancy that!’ Or ‘this won’t make the baby a new bonnet’ , meaning ‘I’d better get a move on!’ These our both expressions used by my mum, , born and bred in Cheshire.

annab275

‘Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs! Meaning ‘fancy that!’ Or ‘this won’t make the baby a new bonnet’ , meaning ‘I’d better get a move on!’ These our both expressions used by my mum, , born and bred in Cheshire.

As well as "Well, I'll go te't foot of our stairs", my Yorkshire grandma would sometimes say "Well, I'll go te ower 'ouse!" instead.

Doodledog

My husband talked about a continental quilt a while ago, and my (adult) children thought it was hilarious. They'd only heard them described as 'duvets'.

We still call it that

And my grandad used to say, "It's ossin ter slaaht", meaning "it's starting to rain.

I must remember to introduce that one to the DGC when we get rain again.

That mention of rain reminds me - they may not know the meaning of these old expressions, but the four year old has known the word 'petrichor' since he was two, when he noticed and asked about the smell that accompanied the rain on dry ground that summer. He's not as green as he is cabbage- looking, to quote another old expression. 😆

Sheba

Triple…. when giving a phone number with 3 3’s in it, the times younger people have replied “ do you mean treble 3” they have never heard the word triple !!
Put your face straight……a favourite of my mothers.

My mums says ‘why’s yer face tripping you’.

Years ago I asked the young woman at the desk in the gym for a ten bob bit, what’s that, she said.
Fifty pence piece for the locker I said.

The other day I said to my 20 year old granddaughter “she’s as brown as a berry”. She looked at me and asked me what I meant. She had never heard the expression.

It’s like paddy’s market in here!

When packing to go away for a few days I asked my 18 year old DGD to fetch the hold-all from the spare bedroom. She had absolutely no idea what it was 🤔

I've heard 'I beg your pardon?', sometimes used as a pompous rebuke. And I've heard the informal contraction 'Beg pardon?' 'I beg pardon' sounds more like a formal request for forgiveness.

Millie22

My granny used to say 'put the wood in the hole'.

I think she meant shut the door.

My husband still says that when I leave a door opened.

There’s more meat on a butchers pencil , meaning someone who is slim .
He’s as fit as a butchers dog meaning someone well fed .
You make a better door than a window , if you’re stood in front of something .
Put the big light on meaning the ceiling light in a room as opposed to a lamp .

Two of my Mum’s -“ Why are you wandering around like a linty ? “
What’s for tea? “airy pie and windy pudding”
Think linty is a kind of ghost.

Just looked linty up and it’s a small bird like a wren ( which is Geordie, like my mum)

Silly girl got none.
I was often called that.

Mu dad called bread "buppy" sometimes.

Like one o'clock half struck.
Means the same as silly girl got none, I think.