Hilarious old sayings you never hear anymore.

[FurCoatNoSnickers]

I’ve started this thread having had the most hilarious exchange with an old man and his carer whilst getting my morning coffee.

“Give it some welly”
“ looks like 6 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag” 😂
“If there’s a rotten potato in the pot I’ll get it”
“Knock ‘em bandy”

I’ve never heard any of them and they need reviving 🤣🤣

Please share yours that might be new to me also. I haven’t stopped laughing thinking I’d him.

I love 'give it some welly'

It’s a bit black over Bill’s Mothers*

Ah, there’s enough blue to make a sailors suit*

*my children here them because I say them

A bit black over Bills Mothers?

Up and down like a bride’s nightie
Not as green as I am cabbage looking

I wouldn’t believe him if he shit in his hands and clapped

"Its like Blackpool illuminations in here" when the lights was left on

"Was your born in a barn" if the door was left open

"Right that's it you're either in or you're out" if we came in and out too many times, used to be sarcastic and reply with didn't know the front door had an opening limit and run down the road

Omg my parents always said

'Oh its a bit black over bills mothers'
'He's three sheets to the wind'
'Pays yer money takes yer chances'
' She's got more front than Harrods'
'She's got more faces than a town hall clock'

Donkeys years old.

Oh god yes born in a barn and Blackpool illuminations

Also 'it's like fucking Crystal Palace in here' when the lights are left on

We don’t pay to heat the street

@BernardsarenotalwaysSaints are you from the Black Country? I thought that was just a Black Country saying but still hear people use it quite often!

@FurCoatNoSnickers "it's a bit black over Bill's Mother's" means that it looks like we're going to have heavy rainfall or a storm, because the sky's gone dark

I can’t remember how it went exactly but one of the threads in AIBU “ I’m sitting here like a tripe for threepence”
OP was waiting for something that didn’t happen.
I loved the description, made me laugh and still smile when I think about it

Couldn't stop a pig in a passage.
Fur coat and no knickers.

"Oh, sit down, Gino, you're buzzing about like a blue-arsed fly."

Oh my
These are awesome! 👏🏾

'It's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's' is common here in the Black Country. It means the rain is coming in from over Stratford way - 'Bill' being Shakespeare.

I like 'wouldn't stop a pig in an entry' for someone who's a bit bow legged 😂

Better than a slap round the belly with a wet fish.

“Shit or get off the pot”
= get on with it, make your mind up

My Partner is from the Caribbean and his mum and grandmas favourite ones to say was "Stop coming and come" when they used to call him downstairs and he'd say "im coming"

Up here for thinking; down there for dancing

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

"That's a bit jammy" / you jammy beggar

"You could have knocked me down with a feather"

She's all fur coat and no knickers
Keep your hand on your halfpenny (pronounced ape nee)
He's a sawney bugger (not all there/dopey)
Red hat no drawers

My aunty (87) has a wealth of lovely expressions:

"It dont give a fishes tit" being my favourite.

"Hells, Bells and buckets of blood"

"Sweet fanny adams"

SHe also likes to call the local council a bunch of "blithering idiots" - Blithering is such a great word, and needs to make a comeback.

"That'll do me till I get something"
My granny always used to say that after a meal.

"One eye looking at you and the other looking for you"
About someone who was boss eyed!

"Would you jump in my grave as quick?"

"Why don't you come in and look out"
Someone who was nosying through your window

"You've a brave taste of coal"
What the coal delivery man said to me years ago!

"If I don't see you through the week I'll see you through the window"

I live n a weird part of the country

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

"Look at the state of that and the price of fish!"

All said by my great grandmothers, I still use the "foot of our stairs one" in exclamation of something.