Words and phrases that should be revived

[NotanNHSnurseanymore]

At the risk of sounding like this post was written by Enid Blyton or perhaps PG Wodehouse....

• Jolly decent
• You sir, are a cad and a bounder! (NB, you need steely eyes for this one)
• Rather, old thing!

Apropos of not very much, but usually when my colleague and I have agreed on a tricky situation, I like to refer to them as Comrade.

Sorry for being pedantic but it’s flibbertigibbet.

When my husband is teasing me, I often refer to him as “you utter rotter”. My late brother used to come into a room saying “what ho, mater” to our mother.

Yes, I remember hearing that on the, ahem, wireless - it could even have been the Home Service before it was renamed Radio 4. I remember the chorus, which went, "Boiled beef and carrots, bread and strawberry jam, waiting to welcome Fred Fernackerpan". By the end if the song it was obvious he had chickened out and they were waiting in vain. Rather sad.

Mauve and oblong!

what a jolly wizard thread this is!

A friend signs off her WhatsApp messages with TTFN (ta ta for now) which is rather quaint.

Japes

That was what my best mate called a shit when we were teenagers 😆😆

I use a lot of these words on daily basis 😂

Quick's the word, Sharp's the toffee 😁

Oh, and 'daft ha'pence'

Snollygoster!

utterly sick of them and they need calling out every.single.time

looking at you Farage.

My DMum (nearly 90) still refers to anything other than bright purple as mauve. My DCs now do the same as a joke 😁

I've got a bone in my leg - my father used to say this when he didn't want to do something!
I love the word parsimonious and try to use it whenever I can.
Nobody ever says 'spend a penny' any more!

My granny used to say she'd been in bed with the doctor, or under the doctor, and wondered why people sniggered.

Groovy

Ive taught them to my 3 year old hoping it'll catch on with the new generation 😁

pantechnicon
sennight
amn't I?

Oooh. I can't do that. I've got a bone in my leg.
Thanks, haven't heard it in years.

Members of my-older-family would say, "Come in if your nose is clean. If not, wipe it on the scraper." I never heard that anywhere else.

Now I'm back to "Up in Annie's room, behind the clock".

Unfortunately "ninny" is used as a slang (not rude) term for vagina where I live!

This is incredibly outing if my family are in here...

My mother's mother died in the late 90s and got some unknown reason we have pretended that she hasn't died and is upstairs instead.. hence calling "GRANDMA!!" on odd occasions.

She was fully independent with a great social life when she died very suddenly on the way to the theatre aged 92, so it's a happy memory, not a traumatised one!!!

My apologies
Frightful weather we are having
if circumstances allow (instead of I might)
Pleb
What a conundrum
Retire to the lounge
How charming
All used in conversation with one’s chummies!!

Fripperies.

Rotter is a good one and
.cad and bounder

A man i used to work with, once used the phrase (unironically!)

I said: X person is on the phone for you.
He said: Is he, by jove!?

I mean…i didn’t know where to start with that.

Older members of my family (all now long gone) would exclaim
”Oh I say!” when hearing something shocking, surprising or outstanding.
I miss it.