Obsolete words or phrases

[CharliesAngles]

MIL said so and so came from a "well-to-do" family.
Made me think I don't know when I last heard that phrase being used (probably also in conversation with MIL 😄)

Are there any words or phrases you've recently heard and thought oh I haven't heard that in donkey's years!

Oh my Gran always called a dress ' a frock' too, just reading this makes me think of her with a smile.

It’s like liberty hall

A the bash ..Ne Scottish phrase
Oh look she's a the bash.
Generally means funcy (fancy).
Not used much now.

“She’s in the family way”
“Charlie’s dead”, when someone’s petticoat is hanging lower than their skirt
“Hard cheese” meaning hard luck.
I use the word lavatory quite often.

I've not heard "hard cheese" for years.
Or you canna see green cheese
Means jealousy iirc

Once and twice.

Sick of hearing adverts on TV saying 'two times more concentrated' or at the gym doing reps "two more times, one more time" etc.

Its twice as concentrated, or once more, or twice more. Grrr. Really gets on my wick.

And someone young yesterday asking me what stone and pounds were in kilos..... I'm obviously getting old 😅😅

This makes me feel very old. Frocks on the Box was quite edgy at the time!

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER
@EmptyInTheValley

Oh my ... teenage me loved 'FROCKS ON THE BOX' with the fabulous Muriel Gray and Marie Helvin!

Slightly off tangent but I am very, very proud that I have taught my twenty-something Italian work chums to say and use the following phrase :

'Super-Duper Tommy Cooper'

And they use it with full Italian gusto all the time!

I just remembered a couple more. These were phrases my needlework teacher at school used to say.

If something could be completed in a short amount of time it would be done in "two shakes of a lamb's tail."

When inspecting my hand sewn seams, she often said, well done Cerbonny they're "firm as the rock of the dead."

She was Scottish, and very strict. I can still hear in my head, giving us girls a ticking off!

Is that another one? Is the term "ticking off" a bit old-fashioned nowadays.

Nose to the grindstone
Shoulder to the wheel
Float my boat
Fancy woman (as in mistress)
Bees knees
Dirty toerag, scallywag, rascal

I'm in my early 70s. I was brought up in Northamptonshire and my late husband in Berkshire and we both used "It's black over Bill's mother's" to mean it's very dark and threatening to rain. Never heard anyone else using it for years.

Don't hear "As cold as charity" much now, either.

Also, 'Queen Anne's dead' for the pettie hanging lower than the skirt.
My English teacher told us that 'lavatory' is the correct word.

Also:

S.W.A.L.K. and
N.O.R.W.I.C.H

Who wears ‘petticoats’ unless they’re in fancy dress?

This won’t buy the baby a dress,my grandad always said this if was sitting when he had stuff to do.

Women used to wear petticoats under their frocks. Some might do still.

"There's enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers."