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

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ExDancer Mon 03-Aug-26 18:03:13

I was quite amused at the checkout in our local supermarket by the reaction of the young checkout cashier, when -not quite hearing what she said - I said "I beg pardon".
She truly didn't know what I meant.
Is this a local (Cumbrian) expression? It means 'what did you say' or 'pardon', or 'what', or 'eh?'.
Is it country-wide?
Do you use old fashioned speech? If so - what?

MT62 Thu 13-Aug-26 20:59:10

I’ll have your Guts for garters. Does anyone even wear garters now apart from a bride?

MissAdventure Thu 13-Aug-26 21:22:55

I'll knock you intò kingdom come.
You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute!
I'll swing for you!

MissAdventure Thu 13-Aug-26 21:24:01

Not all the ticket.

HowVeryDareYou2 Fri 14-Aug-26 08:21:27

Not the full shilling

BoggledMind Fri 14-Aug-26 22:31:22

It's like Fred Karno's in here

A bit of how's your father

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 01:02:52

It's like Wookie Hole in here

HowVeryDareYou2 Sat 15-Aug-26 07:43:03

It'll have your eye out

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 10:51:02

grin
Oh yes, I'd forgotten how many times i nearly had my eye out!

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 10:51:55

If you break your leg, don't come running to me!

HowVeryDareYou2 Sat 15-Aug-26 13:25:50

Who's she - the cat's mother?
What did your last slave die of?
Shut the door - were you born in a barn?

MT62 Sat 15-Aug-26 13:36:26

MissAdventure

I'll knock you intò kingdom come.
You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute!
I'll swing for you!

😂😂😂 oh yes I remember those comments.
Or knock you into next week 😂

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 13:37:25

grin

I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it!

Oreo Sat 15-Aug-26 15:01:52

Keep yer ‘air on… a favourite of Nan’s 😄

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 15:26:05

It's like a whole different language, really. smile
Still, better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 15:29:24

A bit of slap and tickle.

AweSum72 Sat 15-Aug-26 15:33:07

I beg your pardon say it all the time as my hearing goes and what was that song ' I beg your pardon I never promised you a Rose garden' 😆

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 15:37:16

Aong with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes.
Speak up, I'm mutton Jeff. (Geoff?)
.

Oreo Sat 15-Aug-26 17:41:42

It’s Mutt and Jeff I think 🤔

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 17:43:02

Oh yes, that sounds more like it.
smile

Oreo Sat 15-Aug-26 17:43:42

Into every life a little rain must fall, said pompously by our headmaster many moons ago.I don’t think much rain fell on his life.

Casdon Sat 15-Aug-26 18:17:15

I’m all in a tizzy!

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 18:22:09

The heebie geebies...

HowVeryDareYou2 Sat 15-Aug-26 19:15:06

He/she's got the horrors (when someone is angry or miserable)

MissAdventure Sat 15-Aug-26 20:02:20

Now I haven't heard of that one.
The screaming abdabs, yes, but no horrors.

Oreo Sat 15-Aug-26 23:48:02

A bobbydazzler
A humdinger