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!

I don’t hear people say they’re going to the pictures any more

My late mum always listened to the wireless.
I still say that I’m going to the pictures - not the cinema/movies.
A PP mentioned scurrying - one of my favourites is ‘scurryfunge’ which means to rush around tidying up when someone is coming over.

I still say I'm going to the pictures.

‘Keep yer hair on!’ and ‘don’t get yer knickers in a twist.’

Don’t think you quite understood the assignment.

This is what I grow up hearing as well.

I thought it referred to a criminal going to buy a new suit before appearing in court on a serious charge 🤔

There was a football club chief executive called Gordon Bennett, if I recall correctly was involved in some kind of scandal.

No one talks about a woman being 'in the family way' any more.

He was ‘three sheets to the wind’ last night!

I remember my old boss using that expression about work colleagues after a heavy night out. You don’t hear it as much now. I will sometimes throw it in though if someone has been outrageously drunk 😅.

In the Just William books, some characters ejaculated crumbs.

Me too

No qualm.

I’ll swing for you!

We say ‘done a Burton’, means done a runner,

I always thought this meant swing a punch, but it apparently means swing from the gallows 🤯

Gordon Bennett was director of football at Aberdeen FC mid 90s perhaps.
He was caught cruising the red light area saying he was trying to find the best route home from pittodrie.
A sex worker sold her story to the Daily Record.

Up the duff
Living under the brush
Gay (happy)
Queer (odd or peculiar)
Monied
Soft in the head
Hypochondriac has become health anxiety

I love that. It gets said in my workplace as "you can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter" (meaning you can't make it something it's not, but you can present it well)

I haven't heard "Bob's your uncle" for decades. Sometimes followed by "Fanny's your aunt". I have no idea who Bob and Fanny are/were.

I think it means, “I’ll kill you even though I’ll be hanged for it”. But I assume it wasn’t to be taken too literally. I once heard a character say it in Eastenders, which made me smile.

I say ta-ra all the time! I’m from the north-east and most people I know in the area still say it.

Ooh, that reminds me of "a good boffing" which was after TV newsreader Frank Bough who got caught shagging his "bit on the side" in the TV studio (I believe)

No, it means dodgy. There was no such thing as a nine bob note so if you saw one it was def fake. Hence, bent as a nine bob note.

You also used to get 'he looks like the 4th day of a 3 day pass.'

I wonder if those who used to say “five and twenty” were from the West Country?

But that's the whole point of the thread...