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.

I worked with a colleague once who would sign off an email 'bye for now dearheart'

I like "in your cups" meaning "drunk".

"Grandpa was in his cups last night."

"home James and don't spare the horsepower" (a nod to modernity)
"I'm hungry!" - "pleased to meet you, I'm Alan"
"night night, god bless... wake up good in the morning"

@RedRec "it's black oo'er our jacks mothers" where I come from ! I've also heard it as bills mothers

My nan used to say "sights you see when you ant got your gun" when we walked round a not very nice area of town

I've had an adequate sufficiency - DH when my mum offered him second helpings and he was full

If wit were shit, you'd be constipated - my dad when we were trying and failing to be funny and/or sarky

If my granny had balls she'd be me grandad - another DH one when he was unimpressed by whataboutery

I don't think they are old fashioned, I use them @randomer !

I still use a lot of these!

I didn’t have a grandmother but my great aunt used to say things that were very good were ‘capital’. ‘Oh that’s capital.’

She’s also complain that she ‘had a bone in her leg’.

If ever 'Rule Britannia' was being sung (e.g. Last Night of the Proms) my dad would burst into an alternative version starting 'Rule, two tanners, two tanners make a bob ...' - and then further lines explaining the vagaries of pre-decimal coinage, which I wish I could remember.

When we'd whine as kids

My nan used to say

You don't want a question answered don't not ask a question

Any girl or boy from 16+ would be asked if they were courting yet.

Oh, another.

Standing there like one of Lewis's.

Or standing like piffy on a rock bun.

Ha ha, dark over wifes mothers. ( I heard)

I'm earlyish (about to be mid) 40s. My Gran (born in Edwardian times) had loads which you never hear now. Her favourites were:

• Waste not, want not.
• Earn sixpence, save three.

As you can see, she was keen on frugality. How I wish I'd listened to that second one in my 20s and 30s. Only just realising how sensible it is now (though not easily achievable in this day and age!).

@Devlesko are you from the North West?

The mills of god grind slow but they grind exceedingly small. Meaning karma will get you in the end. Reading these my Nan would always says 'she's no better than she ought to be' and my dad would always have us looking if there was enough blue in the sky for sailors trousers meaning the weather would pick up shortly . That seemed to be used a lot when we were on freezing U.K. beaches

I'll give you something to cry for

She's a bit fast, she is (referring to a promiscuous woman)

Don't hang round with her, you'll get a name for yourself /or she'll give you a bad name

If you were made of glass I could see through you (when I'd accidentally stand in front of the TV when my grandad had his programmes on!!)

Waste not, want not.

The kids in Africa would be glad of that (when we left dinner on our plates)

Look like a dogs dinner

Two sheets to the wind

I'll tan your behind (when we misbehaved, this was said in jest)

That's your lookout (that's your tough luck)

@Devlesko

Any girl or boy from 16+ would be asked if they were courting yet.

My grandmother did this. When I was about 20 she once asked me if my boyfriend 'made love to me'.

It took me completely by surprise as she was a rather innocent and very old fashioned woman (born at the end of the 19th century). I suspected that we might not mean quite the same by the term so I asked her what she meant and she explained 'you know, does he hold your hand and say nice things to you?'

I was happy to acknowledge that he did indeed make love to me!

@Devlesko

Oh, another.

Standing there like one of Lewis's.

Or standing like piffy on a rock bun.

Ha ha, dark over wifes mothers. ( I heard)

Lewis's was one of the big department stores in Liverpool so I always understood this to be standing around like a mannequin

I always heard "Piffy up a drainpipe"

So many!!
Black over Bill's mother's.
No better than she ought to be.
Save my breath to cool my porridge.
Well, I'll go to the foot of my stairs!
He doesn't know if it's Christmas day or Pancake Tuesday.
Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
He's a likely lad.
She's a likely lass.
Hold on there, Tonto!
A cold day in hell.
All mouth and no trousers.
Champagne tastes and lemonade income.
All fur coat and no knickers.
He's a right one.
Watch your own show.

And all of the ones @Lifeohlife88 listed, now I have read them!

@mum2jakie

Oh dear. I use both of the expressions in the OP! Perhaps I'm getting old. I'm only in my forties!!

Me too, same age.

Just remembered - "you'd make a better door than window" - ie shift your bum out the way of the telly

@RedRec

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

Was Bill here not Will but same.

A woman I used to work with used to say it's like heaven wi door shut when it was a quiet day

'Were you born in a barn?' from my dad if we didn't close the door behind us.

'There'll be a dark day before Christmas' - said by my grandpa on Dec 21st (shortest day) each year.