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.

@Afishcalledwonderful

My DM used to say 'it's all gone for a ball of chalk'. Now I say it and so does my 6 year old which is very funny 😆

Also, DMs parents always referred to previous homes by the door number ie "oh, that's when we lived at 163". Bless em

I had to google this one!

The modern day version is - its all gone Pete Tong😂

My Nan used to say “Sod that for a game of soldiers“ for anything that was deemed a lot of hassle.

I like it when people say "That'll do me" eg. If picking something from a shop. It's such a cosy saying

I say "Sod that for a game of soldiers", also
"Better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish"

One of my mum's favourites (and she heard it from her mum) was "Two heads are better than one, even if one's a goat's head". Kind of a nonsense phrase but makes someone feel welcome I guess whilst insulting them. (My DM was good at that)

Also if you were fidgety you had a "round bottom" is couldn't sit still.

I have heard of so many already mentioned on here though.

@purplebagladylovesgin

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'

We say it's better than a pole in the eye with a sharp stick. I must have been brought up posh!

Poke, damn autocorrect!

'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride'
'This won't buy the baby a new bonnet'
'Fine words butter no parsnips'
'Better than a flap round the ear with a damp kipper'
'Well, you can like it or lump it'
All favourites of both my mother and grandmother

Prefaced by I’m in my early 60s, but when at school and being obliged to wear skirts as our uniform all the time, if our petticoat slipped to be visible we would say to each other “It’s raining in Paris”.

I have no idea where this came from at all! We also if we needed to borrow sanitary protection would ask if anyone had a Boots bag, which was the universal sign for it.

Home James whenever we set off in the car.

Ours used to be: "Home, James, and don't spare the horses!".

If we had a day out, father used to say (mock threateningly): "We've brought you here to enjoy yourself and enjoy yourself you're blooming well going to!".

Also: "It's not fit night for a dog to go out...
Let your father go".

I like
It's part of life's rich pattern
It's not my baliwick

After a tasty dinner my grandpa would say, that's the stuff to feed the troops!

I still say, home James!

My grandma used to answer the phone saying the last 4 digits instead of hello, and if we ever stayed over as kids or we spoke on the phone just before bed she would tuck us in and kiss our head and say na night God bless she wasn't at all religious but she always said it 😥

@doodlejump1980

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)

Mine said this too!

@Knittedfairies

'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.

The Lucy one is from a song. My dad used to say it too

My FIL was American. He met MIL during WWII when he was in the Forces. When things went super wrong he used to say, 'Well isn't that about a bitch,' but it had be REALLY bad otherwise it was 'That's a helluva a note.'

My great aunt used to say this to me when we had got to our destination and she was letting me out of the boot - gotta love the 80s when sitting in the boot on a journey was a real treat!

Belfast Nana used to say about sour things 'It draws your arse up to your oxters'.

Sorry thought I was replying to someone ... she used to say ‘get your shoes on Lucy don’t you know we’re in the city’

Notalwaysalondoner - your baby said "she's a bit TWP" twp is dumb in welsh. Whether she was welsh, picked it up from a Welshman or (like many nans) was a brief evacuee to wales. It is real and it means exactly what she meant it to

'I felt like puffy on a rock bun

It’s this a typo? It’s piffy, not puffy!

My gran would always say she’d do things “presently” which I assume meant soon but in her own time.
If something is doing no harm - e.g. it’s worth keeping - it’s “not eating any meat”.

We had to “leave something for Mr Manners” rather than scraping every last scrap from our plates. And if we ate a lot we were “gannets”!

@TH22 my grandad used to say that haha. He was full of these brilliant old sayings !

Also "I'll go to the foot of our stairs"
And if we asked what was for dinner, he would say "shit with sugar on"

@CeliaCanth I remember being called a gannet too

Look at ‘im stood there like piffy on a stick - someone doing nothing
Corporation pop - glass of water
Stormy over jacks mothers - weather coming in
Critical but comfortable - when you’re ill with a cold but milking it

One side’s of the family uses ‘ted bumbys’ for any clothes that are too big - and that is a mystery to me.