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?

I suspect they may not be included in any repeats these days, with the obsession to remove any nuance in culture.

I looked up the origins of "Sent to Coventry" It said
"The phrase is believed to have originated during the English Civil War, when Royalist prisoners held in Coventry, a Parliamentarian stronghold, were ignored by the locals. The prisoners were not physically harmed, but they were effectively isolated through social exclusion."

"There is only one thing worse than being talked to, and that is not being talked to ...."

Is that a variant on Oscar Wilde's "only one thing worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about"?

I'm glad someone else has heard of it and your mum uses it! It's perfect but was so funny when I heard it and had to be explained to my what her meaning was!

Yeah! My mum still says that. Proper Glasgow, isn’t it? 😂

Yes! FHB! I'm amazed 😂 that means guests might have known too!

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