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! 😆

Marks or Marks & Spencer’s
Kentucky
Hennes
Party (apparently its so embarrassing when I ask ds if he has been to a party)

Haha!

I call one of my dogs a slow coach at least once every day!

Fiddlesticks
Smashing

In the 70s and 80s too

same as the beard and chin thing we always used to say ‘Jimmmmmmyyyyy’ when someone was exaggerating or lying. It was Jimmy as in Jimmy Hill. For those not old enough he was a football commentator for with a very pronounced chin.

In my neck of the woods, we’d call someone who we thought was good looking was a sort.
And if they were double gorgeous, they’d be a right sort!

Ha! We said itchy chin (Oxford) or I barrrrrt that happened (I bet) whilst stroking your chin. Oh Just "ohhh Jimmy Hill'.

I've tried to explain it to my kids but it doesn't seem to be a similar thing at all!

Not just me then!! Where were you in the country?

Where I was "a right sort" was a dodgy geezer.

In scotkand older people say this all the time 😀

We always said "Going the messages" when I was little. Not sure if it was Scotland-wide though.

Going to the pictures
Listening to the wireless - I'm still guilty of these even now 😃

CHINDAR

Bad fairies
can you twos me - share a cigarette
noisy little perishers - my nan says this
gassing with so and so
going garritey
plonker
pleb
put your John Hancock on that - signature
I’m in dire straits
like a rabbit in headlights

ah so many I don’t hear anymore

Chin related in my area was “sure Papa Joe” while stroking your 2ft beard. Good to know the beard stroking is understood across the UK 🙂

He’s a dish…..meaning he’s’ gorgeous

I'm still lost on the chin business 😂

I didn’t know that. I say Marks and Spencer’s all the time.

@MiddleagedstrikerThis was Surrey/South London. Where were you ?

Yes…I don’t say it but my mum did. She even had her message bag!

With the chin thing, we used to say Jimmy reckON. North Surrey in the 70s

Nobody goes off for a ‘dirty weekend’ any more. Shame, isn’t it - it sounds rather more fun than a ‘weekend away’.

We said "Chinny reckon" NW in 80s.

White Elephant, meaning bric ‘n brac. Used to be my favourite section when jumble sales were a thing.

I dare say if you said “rag and bone man” today, a hefty percentage would imagine the singer bloke

My Dad’s from Dublin, and i’m sure his Mum used that expression.