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!

My Scottish friend today talked about someone having a 'bidey-in'. Hadn't heard that for years 😂

Id almost forgotten this phrase! My mum used to talk about bidey ins!

It was always mentioned in a disapproving tone wasn't it! 🤣

'Ronnie's got himself a bidey in'

@IdenticalHandTwin

@HiZev
What does it mean?
This is a totally new one to me!

It's when a man leaves/kicks out his wife and moves a new woman into his house. She's known as the bidey in, usually causes a huge scandal in the village 😵😅

It's was such a gay day! Meaning a lovely, cheerful day!

And 'Shut that door' 😉

Oooh scandalous!
That'll set off the MN pearl clutchers 😂

Crikey
Blimey
And tuppence for a particular body part!

My DSis said someone was 'having it off' with someone else and I hadn't heard that for ages!

😂 Oh I'd forgotten that one! Also "bonking"!

Yes! Very disapproving and also usually someone I had very little to no knowledge of. As in "you mind Betty's niece who stays at Dunfermline? Well her neighbour has a bidey in the noo".

Is it necessarily when someone has replaced a partner with a new one? I’ve always heard it used more generally, as a term for people who are cohabiting, whatever the history leading up to it!

Yes, I thought ‘bidey in’ was just a neutral expression for someone you’re living with.

My mum uses it as an expression for anyone you're living with that you're not married to. This is still a scandal to her (because she's moderately derangedly catholic).

Keks - trousers
Fizog- face
Twerp- fool
Bugger me - well I never

I still use them but rarely hear them otherwise.

I came across Hodgepodge in a scientific paper recently and it stuck me at the time I've not heard that term for a while, and I like the saying

I say Twerp as well. See also dipstick, dingbat, and twonk.

Heard both used the in the last week. Crikey by a 22 year old.

Aren’t dingbats those visual word puzzles that often come up in table quizzes?

I only read page 1 and none are obselete, but a word (used as an insult) that I haven't heard since a child is:

Pranny.

🤣 I don't know why it makes me laugh, it's hardly the worst put down.

Crikey and blimey are part of daily language. I guess it's a regional thing.

Interesting 'fact' according to my Mum is that she always got told off for saying "cor blimey! " because it originated from the phrase "God blind me!"
Makes sense to me.

Ooh Larry!

😂 That is a blast from the past! I don't even know what it what it means but often heard it thrown around as an insult in tbe 80s, usually when someone had done something stupid ("You pranny").