We used to say:

Looks like its time to start a new thread whither that one Bett!

never mind all these sayings,, what about common things that are no more.. I do miss toothpaste tubes that you could roll up and get the last splott out.

Had to add this one in, even though it's been a while since the thread was live. I told someone that I was 'bleeding like a stuck pig' yesterday. They looked horrified and I realised it's quite a nasty expression.

MY DH has been known to describe his cup of tea as 'fortnightly' (too weak/week).

My grandson apparently just had a collision with a radiator. It wasn't the radiators fault! Definitely tears before bedtime.

I remember wearing a dress with some gloves for some occasion - weird idea.

Someone who was morose had 'a face like a wet weekend' and a cheeky so-and-so had 'more front than Aberdeen'. If I was crying loudly my father would threaten to 'sell me to a lighthouse as a foghorn'.

Did you wear a petticoat under your frock for Sunday best?
And a straw boater with a ribbon down the back. Off to church for communion having missed breakfast of course.
You didn't wear Sunday best things during the Week.

If anyone was a bit slow, mum would say,
'oh, he's forty miles a fortnight.'
I never heard anyone else say that one.

Face like a slapped arse. There is a local expression saying "he pulled his face" which roughly means he did not like what was done or said.
"Tears before bedtime" also for over excited children. That is so true.

A face like a smacked bottom. (Nice!)
I remember the one about the wind changing direction too.

My granny always used to say, 'It'll end in tears,' still very useful that one when small kids are charging around getting over excited.

I used to go 'picking coal' with my dad when he was an out of work miner.We took an old pram to the slag heaps near the pithead and picked enough bits of coal to last us a week or more.
I was a clever kid but if I made a smart remark he would say 'don't get peas above sticks'.

Wassup with you? Youve got a face like fourpence!

*If the wind changes direction, your face will stay like that" - often said to me as a child if I was sulking/scowling.

Strange that I remember what was said to me much better than what I used to say myself!

Funny how slang comes back again, absent. I didn't realise cool was around that long ago. I think of words like spiffing for Jazz age.

'Mint' seems to have hung on for twenty years or so.

An elderly person's reply if asked their age by a child:
"I'm as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth!.

We used to say 'shut yer cake 'ole'

If something was lost my Dad would say 'it's up in Annie's room behind the clock' (who the heck was Annie?). WhenI asked where we were going he replied 'There and back to see how far it is' - but how long Dad? 'As long as a piece of string!'

broomsticks Whatever makes you think that cool is modern slang? It is used a fair amount nowadays, but nothing like so much as it was used in the "Jazz Age". Even then, it already had a long and venerable history dating back generations.

Lost a pound and found a penny.

Cheerio when someone left and Cheers was only for when someone had a drink not used as thanks.

You look as if you've lost a shilling and found sixpence.

To someone not looking very happy: "You look like you've tossed up for your dinner and lost."

The S.O. often says that someone's got 'a face like a box of frogs' and I've picked it up from him. Strangely enough my daughter used 'fab' quite a lot a couple of years back; I think it must have come back into fashion for a while.

My Dad used to say to a sullen face "The mule's in the garden"

My dad, if we were looking sullen, would say, 'Wha's stealt your scone?'

If we made a witty comment we were told "you are so sharp you will cut yourself one day"

A Liverpool insult " Who knitted your face and dropped a stitch?"