Charming, old fashioned sayings

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My IL used to say they couldn't "get on with " something like a cooker or a book.That used to make me smile.
My mother used to say " Oh I like you in that" meaning that suits you, another one which made me smile.

Mother shouts down the drive infront of the neighbors Get your bonnet on it's cold. Embarrases me every time...and I'm over 60 !

Yes remember my nana listening to t'wireless
She also had a ewbank which was a little hoover type thing that you didn't plug in, just pushed up and down.
And when anyone asked her how she was "still breathing"
She wore frocks and asked if I were courting.

I'll have your guts for garters.
Heebie jeebies.

I'm 46.

'This isn't getting the baby washed' meaning sitting around doing nothing when you should be getting on with things. I say it now.

@midgedude

If you can't be good be careful If you can't be careful, buy a Pram

Generally said by my aunt after asking if I were courting

I can remember that one from my school days

'Enough blue sky to make sailor a pair of trousers' if there were few clouds

A lot of these are still used aren’t they?

I like “Like giving strawberries to a pig”. I got it from a James Herriot book!!

My Gran had loads of these.

If I was sloppily dressed I was "a ticket".

If I was in a bad mood I was "scunnered"

The one that made me sad, even when I was small was "while I'm worth my room" - my room on this earth. She definitely didn't feel like she was worth her room in her final couple of years. Gives me a wee tear in my eye to think it and she's been gone 15 years.

Best one, that we still use, is "that'll do me". "Half a boiled egg, a lettuce leaf, a slice of corned beef and a dollop of salad cream - that'll do me!". DJ remembers that one better than me and quotes it back to me if I'm ever inclined to be abstemious!

Peel your orange, we’re off (at the start of any car journey, said by my great DGF who was born in the late 1800s).

Don’t get cute with me (referring to someone being cheeky/rude). That was DGF.

I'm feeling old.....

I say frock & courting.

My gran would say 'you look so gay' as In carefree and happy. She was a teenager happily working in London in the 1920's and I think it came from there.

My neighbour used to say 'it's better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick'

My nan always said "shut up and give your arse a chance" 😂

"It owes you nothing" - something that has been well used and reached the end of it's life.

My great-gran used to run red lights and say "just my colour" :S

My Nan would often announce she’d come over queer.

Home James whenever we set off in the car.

Grandparents and dad also used a lot of cockney rhyming which you don’t hear much of any more.

When I was younger and a bit fidgety my dad used to say
"Put your ass to an anchor" which meant sit down and keep still.

My great aunt used to call people “a silly arse” because she thought it was politer than “silly ass@, ass being donkey. She didn’t know the more colloquial meaning of “arse”.

My granny used to say that she’d had “an elegant sufficiency”, when she’d had her fill of a meal. (Usually a small mice’s portion)

And a modern one especially for Michael Gove but may suit others 'that man could slide under a closed door', bestowed on him after he stabbed Boris in the back, tried to become Tory leader instead of Boris and, when he failed to do so, offered Boris his 'full support' and is now there doing it. Sorry. Politics. But as an exercise in pure CFery it really does take the biscuit.

'Put your shoes on Lucy, we're going to the city' to smarten yourself up (no-one called Lucy) and 'I felt like puffy on a rock bun' to mean being left out of something/ignored.

My mum used to say "it's black over Will's mother's" when the sky looked threateningly dark.

• Piffy, not puffy.

My granny who is late nineties says “A bit Tup” when describing someone a bit dim or slow - it’s apparently short for “he’s tuppence short of a shilling”!

"There, but for the grace of God"
I'm not religious in the slightest, but I love the saying. I know it's actually longer, but I quite like the shortened version.

My grandmother also still asks me if I heard such and such this morning on the wireless, which I love.

Hold your horses

I like my grandparents' saying (a specifically Jewish thing, I think) of 'Use/wear it in health' when you get something new.