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!

@Henriettina My FIL is fond of nincompoop!

Yes, same here . DC’s school still writes slacks instead of trousers on the uniform list 😁

Air force Blue
Fawn

I use many of these phrases.

Some of the phrases in Enid Blyton sound dated now. Expressions like "Smashing!" and "Rather!", or "Cheer up old thing!", "oh I say!".

I do still hear them occasionally though.

I use most of them!

I will admit to thinking that "all fur coat and no knickers" meant someone who appeared to be fancy or acted like they were a above it all but actually wasn't nice inside or was somehow worse than those they were judging.

I don't think I'm explaining it correctly but yeah I dodnt realise it was about being a bit tarty.

I hear myself saying 'Blimey O'Riley' regularly which always surprises me. Google tells me it comes from Victorian music hall. I'm not that old and have no idea where I picked it up.

I say it all the time😬

I used the phrase 'it could turn on a sixpence' the other day at work. Theres no way anyone I work with would understand it.

I used the phrase “a stitch in time saves nine” today and I could see the other person wondering where I had time travelled from

My aunt says ‘oh crumbs’ but I rarely hear anyone else say that now, or fiddlesticks

The bees knees! A young person in my work said this today and then looked confused with himself and asked what it actually meant (we were talking about bees and he was pondering if they have knees 😂)

She’s no better than she ought to be - a strange one that seemed to mean the opposite.

Oh I say 'crikey' and 'crikey O'Reilly' all the time! It's never occurred to me that it might be embarrassing!

I was just about to say you don't hear Sweet Fanny Adams much now and here you are !

'Each to their own' said the old woman as she kissed the cow.

Queer as a nine bob note

Queer as Dick's hatband

I just measured my length (fallen over)

You obviously don't know the expression, to spend a penny 😂

Toodlepip or Cheerio

I called someone a blowhard today and realised I had never said that before

“It’s black over Bill's mother’s” (midlands) - rain clouds in the sky; ‘she’ll rear up on you’ (pronounced rare, Irish) said by my Dad to me and sis if we were doing something which would displease our mum. Similarly Irish re exasperation ‘ Jesus Mary and Holy Saint Joseph ‘. So when Supt Ted H talked about the wee donkey in Line of Duty, I got it 😁

We use "Bob's your uncle" at home all the time, often followed by "Fanny's your aunt", which is sometimes followed by "and Kevin's your peculiar cousin."

I haven't heard it used in donkey's years myself

We use "Cheerio!" in our family.
DS14 says "Toodle-pip!", and the shortened "Toodles" with his pals 😁

“Infirmary” is still the official name for quite a few hospitals in Scotland,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Royal_Infirmary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath_Infirmary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Royal_Infirmary

Never occurred to me it was old-fashioned, then I realised that TownName Royal Infirmary, where I was born, was replaced with a brand new-build “TownNameHospital” almost 20 years ago!

I thought that meant
everything looks good but cant even afford knickers. Like people looking good on Instagram but in reality your life is shit

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking