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?

You coulda Knocked me down with a feather (when surprised)

He/Shes got a right face on ( being Mardy)

Stop Crying or I’ll give you something to cry about !

I've said similar in supermarket if someone is making a meal of getting past..you could get a bus past there.

As much use as a chocolate teapot!

Of out for a laugh and a joke (a smoke)

Going to spend a penny

I thought you were going to say "of a person with a gap in their teeth". I've heard it used in both scenarios.

Bloody hell I thought we were the only sibling group that said ‘I’ve got a bone in my leg’ …
wow !!

Useful as a fag tray on a motorbike

Get a tank in there ( snug parking space)

Our version was
as much use as a fart in a wind tunnel.

I'll take my hand off of the side of your face.
Threat uttered to Scottish children in my case 70s.

'you'll get fingermarks!' aka slapped bum that left a handprint. Had a few of them despite the pull-your-bum-in dance around mums legs as you tried to avoid it!

'She'll have kittens!' She'll be so surprised... She'll birth kittens I guess.

'face like a slapped arse' disgruntled expression.

'do I look like I was born yesterday?!' do I look thick.

To a crying toddler 'aww, What's the matter, have you got a bone in your leg?'

I've had this problem before with words I heard in my rough as nuts primary school, hadn't used for years then pulled out of my arse at the most inappropriate times. We were still singing the worst version of eenie meenie, with a slight consonant change. No idea, any of us. I didn't pull that out in chat but it gives you an idea of the type of stuff we were picking up from each other, passed down from some of the kids' parents. I was a parent myself when I learned a word I thought was made up was actually a slur for someone whose body was affected by thalidomide! Chucked that one down deep into the nope pit. I hope I never develop late onset tourettes. I swear like a sailor as it is, I'd be ruined.

Shut the door, were you born in a field.
When coming in "Take your coat off or you'll not feel the benefit". I think this meant if you had to go back out.
She's got more faces than the town hall clock.

Remembered two more: " I'll clip yer ear" and "I'll wind yer" Never acted upon. I didn't even know what they meant. First was used quite casually, in jest even, or fondly. Second one not so much but as I said, I never knew what it meant, I was quite safe as a child. Just annoying 😆

My mum (Scottish) used to say “are you letting all the bunnets (Scottish for cap) pass waiting on a hat” meaning are you letting the girls go till you find the special one. My son used this in his best man speech indicating that special one had been found.

There was some spiteful stuff directed at children when you look back. 😒

🤣🤣

Jog on

Where is your dad from, Ive never met anyone whose family also say 'laugh to see a pudding crawl' (pronounced puddin' or pudden' as you say)

You make a better door than a window
(in the way of seeing something usually tv)
The wind will change and your face will stick.
I think that I’ll go to the foot of my stairs is from an old radio show - but not totally sure - my mum used it a lot and would’ve been 92 now
Looks like Beirut (my teen bedroom!)

Do you want a slap upside yer head?

Do that again and I’ll skin you alive

Jimmy Hill , and Chinny Reck-on !

Just remembered another one.. I'll put you in a home.

Eat your crusts they make your hair curly (on the basis that all children surely want curly hair)

Moneys round to go round and flat to pile up.
share but save

She/he has seen more dinners than dinner times = that person looks fat
Blood and sand! = politer version of bloody hell
Shite and onions! = oh shit/ surprised
His shed’s collapsed = He’s had a mental health breakdown
Up the wooden hill = upstairs

They were awful really lol
bloody worked on me tho !

my mum used to pick up the phone and pretend to call ’ the naughty girls home’ - to come and take me away if I was naughty!!
so I wasn’t ever naughty as I was shit scared!

Bob’s your uncle.