If I told you "It's snowing down south" would you check your weather app or your hemline?

[TeaAndStrumpets]

Also, what about poor Charlie? He must have died many times.

What never gets said these days?

@garlictwist

My dad says "it's black over Bill's mother's" when the sky gets cloudy and dark. I don't know who Bill is. Or his mother.

Bill is William Shakespeare. To the best of my knowledge this phrase originates from the Black County when the worst of the weather used to blow in from the direction of Stratford (i.e. from the over Bill's mother's house)

@crumblelady we used to say that too! Doesn’t translate out of a specific geographic area but very common within!

@garlictwist

My dad says "it's black over Bill's mother's" when the sky gets cloudy and dark. I don't know who Bill is. Or his mother.

I say this - but no idea what the history of the phrase is. My Dad is from Birmingham though and I think I must have got it from him as it is Midlands saying.

This has brought back a flood of memories of wearing an underslip under my school skirt!

For blotto, I suppose passed out/fast asleep is similar!

[quote alongtimeagoandfaraway]@crumblelady we used to say that too! Doesn’t translate out of a specific geographic area but very common within![/quote]
Yep, I said it to one my kids last week and got a very blank look!

My East End Nan: “Dunno, but I’ll tell ya wot”
Me: “Wot?”
My East End Nan: “Cold water ain’t ‘to”

No idea what it meant, think it was just a way of saying, ‘good grief shut up child’, I did talk the hind leg off a donkey (one of hers too)

“….ain’t ‘ot” not ‘to’, grrrrr, autocorrect

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

My dad (87) has occasionally inflicted this phrase on us. 'Just going to see a friend off to the coast.'

I love your Dad.

@inappropriateraspberry we say blotto for being drunk.

I say “spend a Penny”

All sorts of weather related ones.

How’s the bishop of (can’t remember the place) when the port has got stuck at someone at the dinner table.

As a child in the ‘60s, I can remember in the playground at school, shouting “Charlie’s dead” at any woman walking passed with a low hanging petticoat. The other one was “Red hat no drawers” What a horrible lot of kids we were!

My parents also said 'Going to Brazil to see a man about a dog.' 😆
And if I complained I was bored - 'Go and play marbles in the middle of the road.'

My Grandma (born late 1800s) would have said "it doesn't matter. Charlie's (or its) all clean and paid for!"

My Mum - "it's Bedlam in here!!!"
My Dad "You'll send me doolally!!!"

Another one I've not heard for years is
"all fur coat and no knickers"

Meaning something/someone that gives the impression of being posh/smart/special but underneath really isn't.

plenty of reasons why we don't use that one anymore!

As much use as a fart in a thunderstorm
Or - They're like a wet fart in a thunderstorm!
I knew a couple of teachers like this - wet, drippy, no authority and too soft!

I’m Scottish and not heard of Charlie’s dead. We were a “raining in Paris” area for slips.

I also remember if someone needed to borrow some sanitary stuff we would ask if anyone had a Boots bag. I’m not sure if that was a well used phrase but when I helped with guides we always made sure at camp that the guides knew what to ask for to save embarrassment.

We use bit black over bills mothers, and corporation pop. See a man about a dog is also in regular use and what’s for tea will always be answered with ‘a kick up the pantry door’.

My late Nanas favourite saying was:

“If if’s and ands were pots and pans there’d be no need for tinkers”

She’d also (very wisely) say that in life you should always buy the best shoes and the best bed you can afford, because if you aren’t in one you’re in the other.

My mothers answer to what's for tea was always 'shit with sugar on it!' 😆

I woulds look on the weather app, now if you said has the cat died or I think the cat has died then I'd look for someone with short trousers on, although I'm currently wearing jeans that are intentionally only ankle length with my socks and trainers on show so probably wouldn't say it much now.

@imnottoofussed

I woulds look on the weather app, now if you said has the cat died or I think the cat has died then I'd look for someone with short trousers on, although I'm currently wearing jeans that are intentionally only ankle length with my socks and trainers on show so probably wouldn't say it much now.

My Mum's was "bread and pullit".

Sorry, that was a reply to @inappropriateraspberry

From somewhere out of the depths of my memory a phrase came back to me last night. Husband stood in front of the tv, so that I couldn't see it. I said to him: "Was your father a glazier?" And he looked at me as if I was going mad.
It makes sense to me!

@FlorrieLindley

From somewhere out of the depths of my memory a phrase came back to me last night. Husband stood in front of the tv, so that I couldn't see it. I said to him: "Was your father a glazier?" And he looked at me as if I was going mad. It makes sense to me!

That’s “you make a better door than a window “ to me😂

I've heard the Charlie's dead one but not since my great grandmother died in the 80's, she's the only person I knew who wore a petticoat.