To think people should use these words/phrases more often

[SybilRamkin]

Inspired by the 'hubster' thread, there are several words and phrases in our glorious language that have been much neglected of late, and I resolve to use them more often.

My current favourites:

"I don't like the cut of your jib"

"steal a march [on someone]"

"lollygagging"

What words and/or phrases do you think should be brought back into common parlance?

Oh yes! Guts for garters.

Heaven forfend
It ill behoves us
Hoist with his own petard
Jings, crivens and help ma boab
Poltroon
Wastrel
Nincompoop

I should cocoa!

And "Who's she- the cat's mother?"

In response to "I'm hungry!", "I'm Poland", and "'What's for tea?'- 'Shit with sugar on top'".

God, I've got loads.

Old cockchafer (used in Lucky Jim and greatly amuses my husband)

One my uncle (Southern US) was fond of: "don't go buying a pig in a poke."

I like 'Get back in the knife drawer, Mr Sharp'.

She/he/it's the frozen limit - Bertie Wooster.

Eee, your dad'll play Hamlet when he gets back - hit the roof.

Slice them where you will, a hell hound is always a hell hound - Bertie Wooster, again.

S/had a face that could stop a clock.

What did your last slave die of? Not doing as he was told.

I'm not so green as I'm cabbage-looking.

Nadgers for ollies - same as guts for garters.

A stonking thread!
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it!"

If she was hanged for being beautiful, she'd die innocent.

As numb as a stump.

You don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire - when pulled up by your comrades for dating a minger.

I wouldn't trust him/her to sit the right way round on a toilet - expressing a lack of faith in someone.

Hadaway and shite.

We always used to have "wait and see cake" for dinner, BOFster.

I would love to be young enough to be a whippersnapper.

My mother's favourite "swear" was "Hells bells and buckets of blood!". Apparently MIL used to say, "Hells bells and bloody ding dongs!", though.

DD1 and I like to say "blimmin'".

I do use lots of words like behoove, albeit and apropos.

I also say "Good-ho" quite a lot.

I have been known to refer to someone as a cad. I also like to use scoundrel.

My parents use "big wig" to refer to someone high up in government or the civil service.

I like to use the phrase 'ooh look at him, what a bobby-dazzler!'. I'm in my 30s but my Nan always said this and I love it and want to bring it back!.

Toodle-pip

My DM says Hell's Bells and Buckets of Blood too - it is very satisfying when you've dropped something messy on the floor! I like discombobulated. I managed to use it in a sentence once when talking to a colleague in the English dept at school. They were and .

Gobbledigook

We certainly hear enough of it.

bluestocking we've brought back chinny reckon in my team at work too as well as 'do you do duvets'...it started with 1 person doing it and as we are all of a similar age everyone couldn't resist, although the 20 odd year old in the team refuses to join in and just rolls her eyes at us at the horror...

My favourite is crotchety

Pressed post too early...

and a phrase my grandma used to use 'she has more front than woolworths'

"Keep your mingewig on" always makes me chuckle.
Malinger is favourite word too.
My school friends are I used to say fogey, (shows age) but hardly hear it now.
I hope I remember some of these, they are funny.

Quite fond of tommyrot and poppycock!

Don't use this often, but I said, 'I wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire' before the last election when asked if I would vote for a particular candidate. It's one I would like to use more (particularly about politicians!)

There are loads of expressions on here that we use a lot. I love using old/odd phrases.

Love all of these.

Don't think this one has been mentioned yet:

"She's a regular Sarah Bernhardt" to refer to a particularly dramatic/melodramatic person of mutual acquaintance, which we use in our family.

Of very luck folk:

Jammy beggar

If s/he fell in a lorryload of shit, s/he'd still come up smelling of roses.

And a memorable exchange from Lancashire:

1. Tha'rt a shithouse, thee.

1. Thar't wuss; thar't a shithouse wi'out a dooor.

Heavens to murgatroyd!

Velocirapture

That should be "weskit", not "waistcoat".

Does anyone else say "forid" meaning "forehead"? Or am I terribly old-fashioned?