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!

He was into all sorts ,coke,dominatrix stuff,sex workers etc

As a child the closest we got to swearing was “oh hang” or “bally” instead of bloody.

@JohnBullshit
see also: going like the clappers!

Chinny Reckon needs to make a come back.
DP sometimes comes out with “crikey” which is quite embarrassing in public

@LlynTegid
I made someone laugh out loud recently when I mentioned she was “up the duff again “

I dont think it is, why would anyone start a thread to ask for words that people don't say because the thing they describe doesn't exist any more

I know there are some banal threads on here but let's list obsolete items would be scraping the bottom of the barrel, do people still say that? 😂

Legged it,

Also I love saying “not ‘alf”

That’s only if you want to do them a favour, it’s swing a punch if you want to hurt them.

Hell for leather

Depends where you’re from, cadge means to beg off in the north West.

"Have you got your mackintosh?" would have me laughing all day.

The penny still is legal tender!

I meant the phrase ‘I’ll go to the foot of our stairs’! The person I was replying to was using it in a different context.

Cadge means the same to me too.

What? Pennies still exist and are legal tender.

My dad was from South Wales .

My mum used 'soapy' to describe someone needing a wash - doesn't seem logical
She also said things had ' gone west' when broken

Weirdly, only today I said 'at this time of year the garden is growing like billy-oh' and really surprised myself!

Petticoat!
Haven’t heard that since the 70’s.

I'm fond of saying somethings gone home when it's broken.

Nope. It’s like saying ‘I’m gonna kill you’
but from the days when the punishment for this was hanging. See also the explanation from @EstoyRobandoSuCasa

@EstoyRobandoSuCasa - no my DF was born and bred Londoner as were his parents and I remember them saying it too.

I don’t hear frock anymore. My granny used always say it instead of dress.

My mother often used the word blackguard (pronounced blaggard) to mean a scoundrel, a fellow up to no good.
I haven’t heard that for ages either.
Or indeed scoundrel!

Oh my goodness! I’d completely forgotten that; my dad used to say it.

And if your slip was showing somebody would helpfully whisper, "Charlie's dead".