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! 😆

I used to say I 'looked like Max Wall' when I wore leggings but would just get blank looks now.

That's what you used to say in the 90s if you'd been shagging all night. 😆

'Wicked' or 'bad' - meaning (very) good.

Also, it might have been regional (East Midlands), but we also always said 'skill' as an exclamation or adjective meaning fantastic.

I am old - I have used ( and still use) pretty much everything listed at some point.

In my case ‘bogging’ means awful , similar to mingin’

If someone was ranting about something someone would say' who rattled your cage?' Or 'who put 50p in him?' ( like the lecky meter!)

I have had to give up some Lancashire and Yorkshire sayings, because it turns out that they never made it as far as Wales. People give me blank looks and ask what it means, and then I make a mental note not to say it ever again, unless I'm chatting to family!

I like whoops-a-daisy and was delighted when a largely non-verbal autistic child with echolalia would go around exclaiming, "Whoops-a-daisy!" It made him so happy 😊

Remember when surfing the web was a thing

In Ireland shifting was kissing. Not sure if it still is. Getting hickeys.

I found it odd to find that riding is still used in Ireland for having sex.
We used that as kids in the early 70s

Having it off.

Being called a boffin if you were hard working at school is something I have never heard since I began teaching over 20 years ago , but when I was at school in the late 80s it was always used in a negative way .
My gran always asked us if we wanted to spend a penny ( have a wee) . I can’t remember when I last heard that .

I still use the old ones if it feels comfortable.

I say cash point rather than machine

frog in my throat, made my mum laugh yesterday

some things do die out because they are no. Longer relevant - pull the chain, for example

We had ‘bod’ instead of boffin

Going to the pictures

I have a fairly wide vocabulary and like to use it, it helps keep words alive. So would not think twice about saying boffin for example

Oh yes , pictures.

Slow coach

I only ever heard ‘messages’ from a Scottish friend in the 70s!

I should coco!

I’m also a big fan of “not ‘alf”

Penny Gobstopper - (not a euphemism) can't seem to buy them at all these days.

I laughed my head off.

Lots of sayings need an expletive nowadays to have any impact.

I still say that when the F Word isn't appropriate!!

I had no idea where it had come from, though!!

DH says that to me

we were cracking up the other day about

“it’s like liberty hall”

sounds old fashioned

We said "Chin rub" at my south London primary

Bubbles and social distancing. Hopefully forever.
Pogs
Cable TV
Barcodes
Shitehawk
Dweeb
Dork
Chillax
Bagsy
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Greebos
Trendy
Copping off
Ticketty boo
Word in your shell like ❓
Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb
Kicking the bucket
Word
Far out
The rents (parents)
Chuffed
Duds (underpants)
Eyes like a shithouse rat

Spam - head