We used to say:

Well, it is a nice quick way of saying 'Fish and Chip Shop', isn't it?

Yorkshireish was always succinct. According to a book I read 'Teach thissen Tyke' the world's fastest business transactions are carried out in Yorkshire. For instance, the sales rep sticks his head round the door of the buyers office and asks 'Owt?'. The buyer replies 'Nowt' and the rep departs, saying 'Tarrar'. Three words. In other places the same transaction would involve lots of dialogue and perhaps a business lunch.

We had a couple of Leicestershire ones

He's half sharp

That's ruptured the duck

My dad used to say if we said anything particularly bright, '' oh, have you been sleeping with the knives?''

"Think you're bodyeveryself just cos you used to was. Who do ya think you are I don't suppose?" As my Lancashire friend used to say as a child.

'Wotcher!' (Hi, hallo!)

Just remembered ''put that in your pipe and smoke it!''

Do Scots still say, 'Awa and boil yer heid'?

My Granny (County Durham) used to say ''Do as you would be done by'' and when we were arguing ''Be wished now'' or it could have been ''Bewitched now''. I never was sure ! Anyone know ?

Six pennyworth of chips and some scratchings please!

(i.e. Scraps of batter bits - they were free!

Tiggypiro It sounds like the Scots "whisht" or "wheesht" which means "hush".

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?"

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

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

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.

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

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.

Lost a pound and found a penny.

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.

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!'

We used to say 'shut yer cake 'ole'

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!.

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.

*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!

Wassup with you? Youve got a face like fourpence!

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'.