What words or phrases have you noticed you don't use any more.

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I said i had to go to the ATM at lunch time yesterday.
It occurred to me people used to refer to it as ' the hole in the wall' - well they did where I live.
I've not heard that expression in years!!!
Someone must have decided to stop using it!
I have also realised we don't say a child i with SEN is having a melt down but they are ' in crisis '

I find evolving language fascinating and like how things change and people adapt. It's not like there an announcement on News at 10 with clive Myrie telling us things like we don't use words like hole in the wall anymore! 😆

Hard cheese used when someone didn't get their way.

There's a serious lack of Whoops a Daisies

"I'm stroking my beeeeeard" whilst gesturing stroking a long beard was our version of a chinnie! I might try and bring that one back, it's quite funny actually 😁

I still call an attractive person "well fit!" I have a few friends who are quite a bit younger than me. I wonder if they think I mean "they're very athletic/healthy" when I say that!

Always been McDonalds to me, no-one I know calls it Maccie D.

I’m in NE Scotland.

@BebbanburgIsMine NE Scotland too and definitely not Maccie D's.
Whoever thinks up these daft expressions? 😃

Was Maccie D from an advert perhaps?

Perhaps it’s just an Essex thing then

Being called [a] "square" - ie, boring, geeky, bookish, rule abiding; never hear that one these days.

Also, "bogging" - vaguely insulting way to ask if someone's staring at you: "What are you bogging at?"

So interesting how language evolves! If I found myself 500 years in the past or the future I would probably struggle to make myself understood.

Literally just heard this in an episode of Jonathan Creek as I was scrolling…

I’ve noticed that people don’t say ‘prat’ anymore. They used to say it a lot in the 90s!

Feel like ‘bastard’ is on the way out as well. Perhaps we reached quota with Sharpe.

haha do people not say fit anymore?!

I’d forgotten about the beard thing 😂

Does anyone else remember ‘sh-wing!’

I’m guessing at one point people regularly used the phrase My Dear Husband or My Dear Wife and then for some reason they stopped.. Apart from on Mumsnet.

‘All lower case!’

Muggins

I feel like I’m the only person I know IRL that says it

How could they not understand what half a dozen meant?
Do younger people not know what a dozen is

I think if I'd asked my pupils what a dozen was there would have been very few correct answers.
We used to do this thing where we pulled our palm down the side of our face and said "Mint" or "What a mint" to somebody who'd made a fool of themselves. Early 70s.

Bonk.
As in "Did you bonk him?" ( Did you have sex with him?)

Air Stewardess
Snogging
Hickey
Courting
Counterpane
Keep your hair on
Dosh
Keep fit (as a noun rather than a verb)
Bug rake

Nobody "swots up" on anything any more. Or capitalises the I of internet.

I was born in the early 1960's so there are many words and phrases which were in common usage at that time, and which I would never use today. Some because they have fallen out of use, such as GPO, wireless, counterpane, bonnet etc; others which have completely change meaning such as camp and gay; and some which are now considered offensive, and I certainly wouldn't list them on here for obvious reasons.

What about getting off with someone. The obsession of my 1990s teenage years!

My eldest now 19 used to make a Whoops a Daisies's when she knocked something over and had to come and tell me.

Marks and Sparks - been pulled up a few times now by teens it's M&S - but that's there advertising rebranding store to M&S.

She was a toddler at the time.

Bonk, shag, screw - what do people say now?! I think my teens still say shag but I’m not sure.

Also people used to call the internet the ‘web’ - when did it go back to the (arguably more cumbersome) internet?!

I find it fascinating too. My teenagers change their words for things regularly - then DH and I slowly start to adopt it without realising and then we get told off for using words that aren’t cool anymore. Teen lingo moves too fast for us!

We used to say 'my beard is looonnng' while stroking our chin 😂