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.

Cream crackered - knackered

Dog’s dinner - a mess. As in “You’ve made a right ol’ dog’s dinner of that!

I still use 'laugh to see a pudding roll' , 'have your guts for garters' and 'that won't butter no parsnips' in honour of old family tradition.

Doddle- “That will be a doddle” meaning it will be very easy to do

Give me a tinkle on the blower - call me.

I’m Hank Marvin - hungry/starving.

Leg it/legged it/peg it/pegged it - run away quickly.

Quids in - assured profit

That’s put a spanner in the works - when something unexpected causes something to go wrong.

Take the biscuit - when someone or something becomes over the top irritating.

"Don't give me all that fanny" (don't talk rubbish/don't lie to me/don't waffle and make excuses)..

Tickety-boo - when everything is running smoothly

Did anyone else get told that dinner was 'air pie and a run round?
Also 'That's for nothing- start something and see what you get' - following an unprovoked clip round the ear

Wind your neck in - when someone concerns themselves with matters not directly relates to them.

Same as poking your oar in.

Someone used "scads" to me recently.

Hadn't heard it for yonks...

Sticky beak - about a nosy person

'You'd make a better door than a window'

When standing in front of a TV.

'Here's your hat, what's your hurry'

Not heard this in ages!

I've caused consternation by offering to "have a butcher's" at something.

Which of course means the same as "have a pog".

"Give it some welly" is not unusual and most of the suggestions are current and common expressions. Do people never go out, or at least watch television, or read books?

I agree,slightly confused at this thread,all these are common expressions and widely used

It’s up and down like Tower bridge
If I had a face like yours I’d teach my arse to speak.
Shit sugared for dinner.
Put the wood in the hole- shut the door.
Sweating like glass blower’s arse.
Done up like a pox doctor’s clerk- overdressed.

Although, now I think of it, "pog" has connotations of nosiness, whereas "butcher's" is neutral.

(Butcher's hook = look.)

I must say these all the time as I've recently heard DD(3) say:
"Do I look dragged through hedge backwards?" She did!
"Look at the state of him!" (Ref a my little pony with unkempt mane)

I often get cross about "running around like a blue arsed fly" for everyone.
Accuse Dh of "standing there like cheese at fourpence"

Willy nilly

My DF referred to my neighbour as "worldly". As in mad.

One of my favourites is 'do you think I came down the Lagan in a bubble?'

I got v overexcited when Ted said it on the latest series of Line of Duty!