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.

My DH recently came out with "I've made a real bish of it" which I haven't heard in decades!

A few people have mentioned "Hell's bells and buckets of blood"... my father used to say "Hell's teeth and buckets of blood" or "Hell's bells" but I never heard him mix the two.

Great thread!

As much use as a chocolate fireguard

Like a pebble in a tin can... when someone talks alot
Thicker than rocking horse shit
Like a cat on a hot tin roof...a fidget

Sorry..it was., more rattle than a pebble in a tin can

Stop yer gas bagging..... gossiping

'Ruxing' or 'rucksing' for children horsing around.

And if kids were wriggling and being restless : "Stop rornging about." Not sure how you'd spell it, but I still use it occasionally!

@littlesos "Trunky want a bun" I love this!
The only place I've ever "heard" it is on a similar thread on MN and I really really want to use it in real life but no-one will have a clue what I'm on about

Omg DH says Trunky wanna bun? all the time and I thought he'd made it up!

Oh and my mums friend used to say 'oh it's 4 o clock and no greens on' when they were working and time had run away from them!

Has your cat died? (If your trousers are too short)

Yerroblemom1923, no one knows what I'm on about if I say that! Used to hear it all the time when I was a kid in the East Midlands. Is that where you're from/where you know it from?

I’ve used trunky wanna bun for many years!

As a kid, we used to say “yeah John” or even “Metcalfe” if somebody said something that sounded doubtful. No idea who John metcalfe was. Usually accompanied by stroking the chin, which is also in some places “chinny reckon”

I think I remember 'chinny reckon' from childhood, although sometimes I suspect it's a false memory from reading about it on here

I think we also/instead said 'Jimmy Hill' while stroking our chins, and maybe there was another variation too… something like 'chin on' not sure about that actually.

DF often calls people a bug girl's blouse, or says they're as daft as brush.
DM has some brilliant phrases that she got from her mother...
"Tables are for glasses, not arses" if we sat on a table.
If we asked what was for dinner, we got one of two responses: "shit with sugar on it" or "a run around the table".
And if we complained that something wasn't fair, we got the (totally un-PC) response "neither is a black man's bum".

We used to say “itchy beard” to indicate doubt.

"You don't call me soft Sam from Elsecar" - one my mother (and hers) used to use. Meaning I'm not gullible, of course. No idea who Sam was and what he did to be remembered in the saying, and I've never been to Elsecar (though they probably had). Grandmother on the other side was very fond of "I can't, I've got a bone in my leg" as an excuse for not getting up and doing something. I've adopted that one myself.

We used to say “itchy beard” to indicate doubt.

I'd forgotten that! We used to do that as teens, stroke our chins and say "itchy" if someone was telling a story we didn't believe.

I just remembered another one She got a mouthful of spanners

"Well, THAT'S christened it!?!" (said when someone spills something on a brand new shirt/carpet/lounge suite/tablecloth etc.)

"Put the flags out!!" (when something FINALLY goes right)

"What did you want, jam on it?" (said to ungrateful people)

'I can't, I've got a bone in my leg'

God, yes, I remember someone saying that! Odd thing is, I can't remember who. Maybe my mum.

"Stick a broom up me arse and I'll sweep the floor as I go round"

My mum always use to say you will be late for your own funeral
Also i will go to the foot of our stairs

@darlingnikita near us it's "has your budgie died?" - because you're wearing your trousers at half mast

..as in flying a flag at half mast