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.

@differentkindofpenguin yes that is Lewis’s Liverpool

A face like a bull dog chewing a wasp

Up and down like a fiddlers elbow

Coming down in stair rods .. for when it's raining hard

Bees knees and chickens eyebrows
Wheat and sea
A run around the table

All responses to "what's for tea?" 😀

Rushing about like a blue-arsed fly - busy.

@shinynewapple: my father also used 'daft ha'p'orth' and I also thought that an 'apeth' was an ape of some description.

Up the wooden dancers to the roof (up to bed)

I feel like an 80 year old trapped in a younger persons body as I say a lot of these, especially "blue arsed fly" "willy nilly" and "chocolate teapot" 🤣

@differentkindofpenguin - my Nan (Scouser) used to say the pig's foot one to me whenever I hurt myself 😁

"This woe get the babby a new frock" when you need to get moving and do something, but are wasting time

Least said, soonest mended - to mean don't speak about something and it'll die down and be forgotten quickly.

Love reading these, I'll add

Hold your horses (just wait a second)
What's that got to do with the price of eggs (that's irrelevant)
I'd never heard the eggs one with fish before.

“Do u think I came up the river Lagan in a bubble”

My friend’s Mum used to say “i didn’t float down the Liffey in a Rinso bubble”

she's got a face like a slapped arse

For someone who's eating a lot "she's lost her appetite, and found an 'orses!"

You won’t get the benefit (of putting coat back on when going out into the cold, if you don’t take it off when you come in) thank god that was shortened !!

“Do u think I came up the river Lagan in a bubble”

My mum says "do you think I came up the Clyde on a bike?"

@Drogosnextwife I do too don't worry

"The Black Hand Gang strikes again" used by my dm when us kids left dirty finger marks on something. I think the Black Hand gang was something to do with a secret society in WW1.

"Pull up the ladder Jack, I'm all right" - of someone who doesn't help people in a crisis but only considers themselves.

"Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?" driving too fast.

"Dashing about like Spring-heeled Jack" Apparently a mysterious evil spirit said to inhabit parts of old London in Victorian times.

My Nan used to say ‘you’ve got more chance of shitting in Russia’ if there was no chance of something’s happening

Thought of more today

Aww she’s soundo - she’s fast asleep.
Going ape/ape shit - angry

My Mum used to say ‘up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire ’ and I say that to my kids now.
Going Up West was one too which I always thought funny as technically we were west of ‘Up West’.

Does anyone else say 'pulling your leg' for joking?

If I asked where Grandma was, my Grandad would say "She's run away wi' a black man..."

Six of one and half a dozen of the other meaning you're both to blame.

Ten men and nine horses heads meaning somebody bossy or feisty I think (he's a proper little ten men....)