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?

Going to see a man about a dog
She piped her eye ( false tears)
A blind man would like to see it!
He could talk a glass eye to sleep

"Who do you think i am, Rockerfeller!"
Said by my dad when i was little.
I still don't have a clue who Rockerfeller was 😆 but im sure he had a few bob.

I'll put his gas at a peep
He'll be laughing on the other side of his face
Hold your tongue (with your feet)
I'd bet my bottom dollar...

I've never understood this one - why there rather than somewhere else?? Google is no help. No one seems to know!

"Gordon Bennett"

I have never heard that one!!

Some of my dad's phrases

• Like a bull at a gate
• like a bull in a China shop

-like a fart in a collander

-more mouth than grub to put in it

you'd laugh to see a pudden(??) crawl

Ne'er cast a clout til May's out

I said that a few times this year 😆

I didn’t realise that meant keeping your winter clothes until Hawthorne is flowering. (End of May).

Were you born in a barn?

It’s a classic northern phrase. Dinner would either be that or ‘scotch mist’.

Why Coventry?!

Did the council cut yer hair?

Who's she, the cats mother?

Do you think I'm made of money.
If you didn't get what you asked for and mum would say .. well that's hard cheese.

"smells like a tap room in here". I used this phrase twenty years ago when my cousin smoked in a bedroom. My parents turned to each other in surprise as they hadn't heard that phrase in years. It was quotation or a mangling of one from the book "To Serve Them All My Days". I've never been in "tap room".

She’s no better than she ought to be

Stone the crows

I can top it. My parent used to go one better and say "little girls should be seen and not heard" so sexist to boot. And no, my self esteem wasn't in tact by the time I reached adulthood 😉

This thread makes me want the laugh emoji back.

‘You can’t have the penny and the bun’

That’s hardly worth dirtying the plate

Wash your mouth out with soap and water.
What’s for dinner? Bread and pull it.
Where are we going? There and back to see how far it is.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
And agree with PP, A blind man would like to see it. Heard that a lot.
Beggars can’t be choosers.

DS2 (9) had never heard the phrase ‘at sixes and sevens’ (which came up in his bedtime story).

My DSs also laugh at ‘I’m not as green as I’m cabbage looking’, ‘you appear to be casting nasturtiums’ and ‘Heavens to Murgatroid’.

Were you born in a barn??