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!

And Scotland.

I still say chinny reckon.

Roll the window down

I occasionally call my husband an "utter cad and a bounder".

My neighbour, in his 80s, says this!

I rather like Tickety-boo.

Crikey, crumbs and stone the crows are all good expressions of surprise.

I use loads of these. I love some of the more antiquated expressions and remember my parents and my granny using them when I was growing up. They can just be so satisfying to say. My teenagers laugh at me like I’m something from ‘olden times’, but I occasionally hear them using some of the expressions too, especially my 18yo DS. I’m in NI where we have a whole bunch of our own expressions, as I’m sure other regions do too. We used to take the children into Belfast and climb up to the viewing gallery in Victoria Square, where we all got the collywobbles, the heebie jeebies and the head staggers. Sometimes DS1 will tell me he has been up in Victoria Square with his mates and dutifully confirms that he got the collywobbles🤣

Talk till the cows come home
Talk the hind legs off a donkey

Same!
But ‘frock’ is one I haven’t heard for a long time. I’m tempted to tell a dd who left her dress here after a do, that I’ll bring her frock next time I visit.

There was once a TV prog. my DM used to like, called ‘Frocks On The Box’.

Probably early 80s.

‘Stout’ (meaning fat) is one you don’t hear any more - a long gone GM used to say it. And there’s a line in Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga (set prob. 1890s) from an elderly woman to her brother, ‘My dear boy, how stout you’re getting!’
(He didn’t like it!).

I do too. Or the flicks.

The OP literally says 'Obsolete words or phrases'.

My dad used to say ‘up the dancers to bed’

Just looked this up and dancers is slang for stairs apparently 😁
Never knew that!

I thought it meant all show no substance.

You must have been listening to me. For any Scots, twice this week i have called someone a "useless article" They weren't impressed but it was true.

I still say that. I didn’t realise it was ‘weird’ until someone pointed it out.

A friend of mine used to (ironically) say: rotund.

Now that last has really taken me back to the one person in my family who used 'measured my length'.

I'm definitely old enough to have spent a penny in the old slots on loo doors, back in the day when no-one would have said 'loo'.

Laid out like a shilling dinner. Said by my mum when she saw my baby laid in her pram in a new dress.

Chinny. Said by all kids in the 70’s and 80’s with an accompanying rub of the chin to indicate that someone was fibbing. Asked my 17 year old about it the other day but she’d never heard of it.

Has anyone heard the phrase "Right as ninepence" when asked "how are you?"
One of our neighbours who's in his 80s always responds with this.
The next time I see him and he replies thus, I will ask him the origin!

I had never heard the 'chinny' thing until I read it on here and I was a kid in the seventies . 'Stoutness' always reminds me of Winnie the Pooh and his stoutness exercises

My late granny from Cork used to always say wish you health to wear it when you got new clothes. And she called dresses, frocks too.

Yes, I've heard 'Right as ninepence', but probably not for a long time.