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.

I’m from Stoke and ‘It looks black over Bill’s’ was my nan’s favourite saying along with ‘as much use as a chocolate teapot’. My Grandad used to like saying ‘they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery’.

“I’ll have the screaming abbadabs.” Have hysterics.

“Gordon Bennett!” Exclamation of annoyance.

“Throwing money around like a man with no arms.” For someone spending a lot. Never understood this one.

“Long thin streak of pump water”. To describe someone tall and thin.

“Big girl’s blouse”. To describe someone who likes childish things.

My Granddad says "Good heavens above!" when he's surprised by something. I never thought about it until I realised that nobody else says it ever.

My dad used to say "Time to climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" meaning to go upstairs because it was bedtime.

I say ‘heavens above’ (feeling ancient)

my mum used to say "its hanging from my lip shouting Tarzan" whenever I couldn't find something & asked her where it was

Love these. DH gets really wound up by old fashioned sayings, for some reason, so I'll have to introduce him to some of these

Not RTFT - just in - but I miss the shortcuts my compatriots use to condemn people ‘bumming their chat’ (exaggerating) such as ‘did ye, aye’ or ‘your bums oot the windae’.

Cuts to the core more than ‘is that right? Oh my’
😂

I could eat a shabby horse and chase his mate.
Slap the fat and ride the ripples. When a guy likes a large lady.
Their like a fly round shit. Or a bee round honey.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse between two piss-stained mattresses

I was put with my 89 yo Mum today, she grew up in the NW and then Midlands.

The Sky was looming so as an experiment I said “it looks a bit black over Bill’s mother’s”.

She looked at me as I’d I was mad and said “what? Who’s Bill?o”

My Yorkshire born grandad used to say ‘all sigarney’ meaning ‘all is well’.

I’ve never heard anyone else say it.

I heard a great one today ‘I’m all behind like a cows tail’

I've got a bone in my leg .... said as a reason for not responding to a request
As old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth .... in response to a child asking an adult's age

I could eat a scabby horse or i could eat a dog with a dirty bum, both used when you are starving. If you dared to ask my Nana what was for tea you were told it was green shite and sugar night

Going to the land of nod (going upstairs to bed)

My boiler man answered his phone then shrieked " Christ on a Bike" at his colleague, who had been to a job where a Goldfish had jumped out of the bowl at him!

Still makes me giggle now thinking back to his reaction!

I've been sitting here like piffy on a rock.- when you've been waiting around for ages.

Trunky want a bun - looking longingly at some nice food

On the huh
or
Skew whiff
depending on what East Anglian county you're from. (Meaning wonky.)
Ooh I say!
Suffolk exclamation.
Where I live now, people don't understand 'fell with your bum in the butter' meaning very lucky.

You couldnt couldn't punch putty that ugly, get up up the wooden hill and put wood in the hole!! And, drink council pop its free from my dax. Bread n scratchings from my nan when we asked what was for tea..no idea why? Lol...

'You look like you've lost a shilling and found a penny' (you look miserable - there were 12 old pence in a shilling).

'Change the record!' ("stop going on about the same thing" in the days before CDs and digital music)

You couldn't knock snow off a rope (being too weak) 😂😂

“That’s the ticket”

Not as green as she's cabbage looking

He/she fell out of the ugly tree and got every branch on the way down

She's got enough XXX (insert anything here; bags, clothes etc) to cobble dogs with

All my lovely late Lancastrian dad's 😊

GoodGirlsGuide I think your grandfather was saying a variation of 'all Sir Garnet' or 'it'll all be Sir Garnet'. Noel Streatfeild's old nanny used to say it and, AIUI, it was quite a well-known phrase back in the day. Sir Garnet was a real person - Sir Garnet Knowsley.

When we did the pouty, sulky bottom lip thing, my mum would say, “you could hang a bucket off that!” Obviously, it’s now known as a bucket lip.

Showing my age as I know and still use about three quarters of these!