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.

Haven't read the whole thread, but my Glaswegian FiL used to say, "Away & have a shite & clear yer heed." If one of the kids was talking nonsense. Weirdly though, it often worked if they actually did just that!

If any of us were eating more than usual, or asking for more, my Mum used to say "I think you've lost your appetite, and found a donkey's!"

Just thought of a few more:
Why have a dog and bark yourself (when if ask why I was being sent the shop)
I'll roll you in a barrel full if nettles
I'll sell you to the highest bidder if you don't shut up

Up at sparrow fart.
Smaller than a gnat’s cock.
Black over Bill’s mother’s.
Beggars on horseback.

Shit with sugar! (When you asked what was for tea)

Strong enough fer a mouse to skip ower = strong drink/cuppa
Rare as rocking horse shite
Like pulling hens teeth
like billy oh" .DF allus said this 😂

Love this post... Still chuckling over thrupenny tripe

French letters = condoms...always makes me laugh when I think about it 😂

If I ever say: Ah, I see...
My mil finishes it with: ...said the blind man to his his deaf wife

My family still say loads of these! And I always get "Ee, you've been sleeping in the knife drawer" off my mum when she thinks I'm being a . smartarse.

I could Sleep on a chickens lip, when you're overly tired
No shit sherlock, sarcasm about saying something obvious
Shove can't up your arse and try
Swings and roundabouts, give and take
Ohh I could go on I'll think of some more

He's got a shilling on himself.
Meaning he fancies himself or thinks he's something special.

Your eyes are bigger than your belly (being greedy)
Im off to visit me aunt (going to toilet)
bobs your uncle and fannies your aunt .

Mutton dressed as lamb
im off to spend a penny
gone to see a man about a dog

Put wood inth Hole
Sorry i keep posting just keep coming to me after ive finished
If i dont see you through the week i will see you through the window (my gran said it way before Keith Lemon)
joke in haste repent at leisure

"Oh, do sit still! You've been up and down more times than a tart's drawers!"

Three sheets to the wind (pissed)
I’m going to see a man about a dog (man pissing off to do whatever he wants)
Pot calling kettle black (having double standards)
Drink in, whit out (acting an arse when pissed)

@BernardsarenotalwaysSaints are you from the midlands?
Bit black over Bill's mother's is one I hear often and I'm near Birmingham
Also "taking us round the Wrekin"

Loads of those already mentioned but my favourites from my mum and Nan are: What's that got to do with the price of fish? Said when you spoke out of context to current conversation.

You know what thought did- went behind the shit cart and thought it was a wedding! - said when you made the wrong assumption about something eg I thought you were going to the supermarket.
Also when bored as a child asking what could I do- shit in your hands and clap it to'
Or "go and play with Roberts's kids"- nobody knew a family called Roberts

More haste, less speed.

Have you got hollow legs?
Said to a kid who won't stop eating/says they're hungry after a big meal

None of the above are not said 'anymore'.

Most of them are regional sayings and are still said.

Best expression I ever heard was "He's so unlucky, if he fell in a bucket of boobs he'd come up sucking his thumb

Trouble at t’mill?

Mutton dressed as lamb

Stewed Biggs and onions, brandy balls and beans if I asked what's for tea