Hilarious old sayings you never hear anymore.

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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.

When asking where my dad was, my mum would alway reply "he's run away with a gypsy woman". Not very PC now.

The saying about enough blue to make a sailor suit / pair of sailors trousers was told to me as

If there's enough blue to make a pair of sailors trousers it's going to be a nice day

As a child I believed that was a true way of telling the weather!

@anitagreen

Oh god I say all of them on a regular basis, and I'm not old, I've just turned into my mum.

MIL who is nearly 96 came out with a corker the other day

Bob’s your uncle
Fanny’s your aunt
And Dick is your best friend !!

Nana !

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

@Pigletthedog my dad used to call me a 'daft apeth ' when I was a child. I thought an apeth was a baby ape! Only realised in the last few years it's short for half penny worth (I think)

Cheerfulpotato, I thought was just me. I do this too but never - so far - if anyone's around to overhear.

" You've sent us right round the Wrekin" local Midlands phrase for going the long way round to get somewhere. The Wrekin is a hill in Shropshire.
When I was a child and complained of being thirsty, Mum used to give me a glass of 'Adams Ale' (water)
"Time to go up the wooden hill" when it was bedtime, wooden hill meaning stairs.
Whenever we came home from holidays my Dad would announce "ah Chez Nous" I had no idea it was French, I thought it was the name of our house!
"I'd rather have you for a week than a fortnight" said by my Grandparents whenever they had looked after us.

Well he obviously weren't looking at the Mantel when he was poking the fire 🙈

Are yer lekkin? - Yorkshire for are you playing out.

One I heard in work the other day. Not heard it in ages!

It'll be a pig's foot in the morning

Apparently comforting a child with a minor injury
Scouse I think

Oh one from DH's Lancashire roots:

Ee by gum!

My FIL when surprised would say ‘well I’ll shit in me at (my hat) and punch it’.

Bit of how's ya father means having sex to poster upstream. Wind ya neck in is one of my favourites

BuzzShitbagBobbly - I had a Brazilian colleague who used to say "Your head isn't just for wearing a hat".

When the cats away.............the mice are rats!

I’m going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
Going upstairs to bed.

Slyer than a shit house rat.

I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.

I wouldn’t piss in his best hat.

He should be shot with a ball of his own shit.

My mum has the elegant way of referring to anyone with exceptionally good eyesight as ‘having eyes like a shithouse rat’
If I ever asked where we were going as a child I’d get told’there and back to see how far it is’

Bleeding nora this thread’s a bit of all right.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

She knocked him into a cocked hat (when you beat someone at something)

Sod that for a game of soldiers

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

The wick in the engines gone out (when car stalls)

Piece of cake (think a war one)

I wonder if this is " one of Lewis's"?

Goin up west
Laugh I could have cried
Bloomin heck
It’s 6 and 2 3s.
No big hoo ha

They've got talk for 10 row of teeth.
Someone who talks a lot

As well as give it some wellie give it some guttie

Going to see a man about a dog. - Was always told this by my grandad when we asked where he was going

Arse over tit -fell over

If the wind changes your face will stay like that.