Phrases you don’t hear much any more

[BarbaraVineFan]

I was just thinking about the phrase ‘I speak as I find’, which my gran always used to use to mean that she was always honest (sometimes blunt!) and realised that it has been years since I heard it! Any other phrases like this that used to be really common, but now are a dying breed?

Don’t talk with your mouth full, and look at me when I’m talking to you!

My dad used to say, if he was surprised 'well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs'

When i walked in a room and someone had been talking about me they said your ears must be burning.

My gran used to say 'gertcha' if us kids were messing around.

Children must be seen and not heard.

I often use ‘Nan’ phrases and my kids have no idea what I’m talking about. Usually to convey dissatisfaction at one’s appearance.

• You look like you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.
• You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.
• You look like you’ve been dressed by the parish.
• You look like one of Barnardo’s.

I must have been a scruffy child!

My dad used to tell us to shut our cake holes when we were children.

May as well be hung for sheep as a lamb

My kids often laugh at my phrases. Most recent ones were "she's got a bee in her bonnet" and "that was a bit jammy"

Reminds me of Chas n Dave that does 😁

Thank goodness! 🤦‍♀️ Although I think many people sadly still think that.

My nomination is 'till the cows come home'.

I like “put that in your pipe and smoke it” 😀

That old chestnut! Hair like a rats nest. Feather brain.

Most of these are still used in this household.

It’s like Annacker’s Midden in here

• Well I'll be darned
• Shut the stable door before the horse has bolted
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Talking about 'running an errand'
• Beg your pardon

I feel like I say “don’t talk with your mouth full” daily to my kids 🤣

It’s looking dark over Bill’s mother

For Petes sake !!

What's for dinner Shit with suger on

You won't get that done without some elbow grease.
There's nowt as Queer as folk, all the world but thee and me is queer and even thee's a little queer
I like to call a spade a spade
Slow down or you'll catch yourself coming back
Living over the brush (with a raised eyebrow)

Sending people to Coventry, it was used frequently at school in the 1970’s

You’ll laugh on the other side of your face if you carry on.

Wouldn’t give you tuppence for a bucketful!