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 dad telling me to “hang that pelmet up once you’re done wearing it”
my gran used to say “bloody sands and beaches” instead of bloody hell
i said “you make a better door than a window” to the cat the other day who ignored me

Common law wife. You never heard Common law husband though, for some reason.

Snap tin for lunch box.
My aunt used to say she was going to strain the greens when she was off to the loo. My great aunt used to powder her nose.
Old Year’s Night instead of New Year’s Eve.
Half to the hour instead of half past.

Used people say ‘half to the hour’ in the UK then? Interesting.

I know this construction is used in other languages. I remember experiencing some confusion with a Dutch colleague over a meeting time when she thought half two in English meant half to two so half one.

Not only do the Dutch count to the hour instead of from it, but they say things such as "it is half [to] two minus 17"!

What time is that?🤯

I struggle to get my head around it, but I think it's 1.13. So why not say 1.13 or 13.13?

Are you from the North east? I remember Oz from auf weidersein pet saying this.

I see your 'scurry' and raise you 'scuttle' - nothing good ever comes of something that scuttles!

That brings back an excellent TV memory. My DH (Yorkshire) refers to any cash he leaves for me as my "bait".

Isn't US usage similar e.g. 'a quarter of two'? (I don't know if that means a quarter to two or a quarter to one...)

A quarter to two. I think it has its origins in a quarter “off” two.

Cadging is from falconry apparently - a boy would carry the frame the birds were attached to, the "cadge" and the gentry would tip him

Cheese. Or not very good cheese was called, "Mousetrap"