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.

"What's for dinner? Three jumps at the cupboard door"

And after eating

"Well if thats me tea, I've 'ad it"

Me and my sister love saying 'capital' when something is good. We nicked it from Jane Austin.

@LApprentiSorcier that always makes me laugh as well.

If I asked my mum where she was going she would say “to see a man about a dog”

Me and my friend like saying "I thought you'd never ask" if offered tea. Sometimes I will offer her tea as she walks through the front door and she'll say "I thought you'd never ask!"

That's a good one 07:51Toddlerteaplease

It’s looking dark over bills mother’s

I’ll have a glass of Adam’s ale

In a right two and eight

third class riding is better than first class walking !” My grandfather used to utter this

A GM of mine (born before 1900) told me she had to stop ‘walking out’ with a particular young man, because ‘he tried to get his hand down my placket fastener’.😂

‘Keep your hand on your ha’penny’ was another of hers - I think it was a music hall song, too.

@hadtojoin Brilliant! Thank you. I will tell my DH as he is old enough to remember pre-decimal currency but didn't know the Rule Britannia song!

I say many of the things on here didn't realise I was so old fashioned!

My mum would often say things like 'they do a lovely slice' if I suggested a local tea room or something, meaning they had nice cakes in there. Or she would say 'thats a lovely shade on you' which I always thought was such a lovely compliment.

All brown boots and marmalade sandwiches

Was they think there better than they actually are

My dad was renowned for his sayings. This will be very outing if anyone on here knew him, but oh well.

As black as hell’s cricket - filthy.

Cold enough for a fur lined walking stick.

Have you had your hair cut, or your ears lowered?

A bit lame under the cap - someone daft.

Eyes like a shithouse rat - someone who never misses a trick.

One of my elderly relatives uses this phrase instead of saying having a bath - washing my feathers :)

More from my grandparents - 'You daft ha'porth' . Ha'porth, as I eventually realised, was short for 'half-penny worth' but when I was young I thought it was 'ape-eth' meaning you had the sense of an ape.

'It'll all come out in the wash' - it'll be all right in the end.

My kids love it when my dad says "keep your hair on!"
My nanna used to have the little antimacassars on the arms of all the sofas, in the front room of course. She also used to ask me if I was courting and my grandad would ask whether the boys had kissed all my teeth out when I was seven (which used to really wind me up, encouraging him all the more!)
I love the word "laking" to mean playing, I don't live in West Yorkshire now but I doubt kids still say it when they're playing out. See also: crogging a lift on a bike.
My mum said she found a sixpence the other day (she meant a 5 p coin!!).
I also like "If I had a pound for every time...I'd be a millionaire".
Oh, and I also like "you don't get owt for nowt", "shy bairns get nowt"(have I lived in Newcastle!), "Dragged through a hedge backwards".

Just as an aside, it's exactly 50 years tomorrow since the UK went decimal.

Necktie collar, pocket no dollar - my great aunt who grew up in Singapore (I mention that because I don't know if it might've been a common saying there) used to say this and I loved it

@Izzy24

Up the wooden hill and down sheet lane to Bedfordshire

You could ride bare-arsed to London on that knife

Rushing around like a blue-arsed fly

All lace curtains and kippers

My grandpa also had a bone in his leg which meant he couldn’t play but his legs worked fine when he went to see a man about a dog ( for which I waited in vain ☺️)

My gran was very fond of the first three on that list! Are you in Yorkshire? Actually, with her it used to be "up the wooden hill and down sheet lane" without the Bedfordshire bit, such was her devotion to all things northern...

My grandparents are all long dead, but they all had a "front room" for best, which hardly ever got used. The vicar and the doctor were allowed in there, and everyone else had to hang out in the kitchen instead.

Gran always used to say "you wooden bugger" when you'd done something particularly daft, or tell you you were "daft as a brush" if it was a minor misdemeanor.

Oh, and if you asked my mum what was for tea when she was in the middle of doing something else, the answer would be "dead dog on toast". I realise this doesn't fit the "charming" brief, but it always used to make me lose my appetite for a while, so any parents with pestering kids might find it a useful one.

[quote Sleepthief]@randomer I say both of those! Didn't realise they were old-fashioned (am mid-40s and feeling every second of it!)[/quote]
Me too!

My mum always says, and now I do too, when the day has got away from you and you haven't got much done, "ooh it's xx o'clock and not a po emptied!"

@Furries that reminds me that when my dad was teaching me to drive and I was unsure at a junction he would say 'better to be 2 minutes late in this world than 50 years early in the next". That also pops into my head when I'm driving too.

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Did your family have connections with South Wales?
The reason I ask is that we use twp here to mean that someone is a bit daft or silly.

Twp predicative) South Wales dialect
foolish; daft
From Collins online dictionary

Loads of words and sayings here have their roots in Welsh
It's known as Wenglish and us sadly dying out.

Giving someone the "glad eye". Meaning checking someone out.