...to think that this expresson is dying out?

[WalkDontWalk]

On another thread someone used the expression 'taking the mick'. And I thought, 'I used to hear that all the time when I was a kid. But I rarely do now.'

So I started to think of others that my dad used but my kids don't.

'Having a kip' or 'I was akip'.

'Yikes' (My daughter says I'm the only non-cartoon that says 'yikes'.)

'Swinging the lead'

'Bunking off'. (Daughter: 'Never heard that. Sounds rude')

'Going Dutch' (Daughter. 'Nope. No idea. Is that rude too?')

'Haven't the foggiest.'

These were all in use in London fifty years ago. Maybe they were always regional.

See also: "His knees are like knots on cotton" 😁

If someone were asked to do a lot of tasks all at once or in a very short time, they would retort with, "Shall I stick a short-handled broom up my arse while I'm at it?".

I never heard 'cloth-ears' used to or about anyone who was actually deaf; the implication was that you weren't paying attention or taking in what was being said. Four-eyes was definitely about wearing specs, though.

I heard someone a bit posher call it sky wine once!

'I'm stood here like two of eels waiting for liquor' my mum's favourite saying if someone kept her waiting. SE london, refering to eel pie, mash and green liquor served up locally. Yuck

'I'll pay you' meant you had a smack coming.

This thread should be kept for posterity, lol.

Corporation hair oil - water.
So greedy he could peel an orange in his pocket.
Me stomach think’s me throat’s been cut.
I’m so hungry I could eat a scabby horse between two mouldy mattresses.
Eyes like a shithouse rat.
Radar lugs (when accusing us of listening in, or ‘earwigging’).

All courtesy of my dad.

I've heard "corporation wine". I guess that's not as posh as sky wine but posher than corporation pop!

It’s mitching in Wales too.

My dad's first wife was 'no better than she ought to be,' according to my mum.

Gor Blimey..(God Blind me) toned down to Gordon Bennet

That's hilarious @PeaceReacher 😁

Does anyone say Scotch mist anymore? As in, if you can't find something and your parent immediately finds it instead they say "What's that, Scotch mist?!", whilst rolling their eyes and pursing their lips, obvs.

Sort of related to "What am I, chopped liver?"

Also ‘it’s snowing down South’ for your slip showing .

I use all these and Gordon Bennett, Dishy, taking the mick (although sometimes taking the Michael)

My grans favourite too and she left some great diamonds)
Also he had a face like a smacked kipper with a hat on.

We say dry as a badgers arse for sour wine and tight as a ducks arse for penny pinchers.

Spawnny Eyed Wozerk is an unactractive man (I had the pleasure of calling my BFFs ex dp that when she finally left him).

I've seen more meat on a butchers pencil.
Bonk was our expression in the 80s.
And mad as a bag of frogs.

My gen Z DD got an amorous approach that said 'you're a sort'.
She did laugh (she's a posho and normally eats people for breakfast).

Enjoyable thread @WalkDontWalk

’Standing here like cheese at fourpence’ for being kept waiting. Lancs, I think.

Regarding ‘guts for garters’, I offer you the (first half, anyway) C20 banal equivalent, ‘I’ll have your clappers for a necktie’.

’Like a pig with a musket’, anyone? (Comment on seeing someone approach a task clumsily or cluelessly)

Swinging the lead was how in times gone by you could see the depth of the water you were sailing in. It was considered the easiest job on the ship so was given to anyone who was sick - or skiving!

It's not just sayings, it's strange actions as well. My mum would chase a sailor and touch his collar, for luck. She always rubbed her football pools envelope on her backside before putting it in the letterbox, for luck.

Always said White Rabbits three times on the first of the month....for luck.

I'm seeing a theme here.

She's all fur coat and no knickers

She's the talk of the wash house

Well that won't butter any parsnips

That won't buy the baby a new bonnet

Yes, my parents and grandparents said Scotch mist. 70s childhood, NW England.

Do you think I came up the Clyde on a bicycle?
Pea souper - thick fog
Raining cats and dogs
Dog (dog and bone -phone)
Telling porkie pies -lies
Butcher’s ((hook) - look
No better than she ought - sexually promiscuous woman
Butter wouldn’t melt - don’t come the innocent with me
Flying without a licence - your fly is undone
Old Bill - the Police
Up the stairs to Bedfordshire - time for bed
Apples - stairs
Me old china (china plate - mate)
Parky - cold
This might just be one from our family - my DF singing, Where the bee sucks, there suck I (from The Tempest) cross reference to bees and honey = money

You sound disappointed....

My dad, if you didn't say please or thankyou,

Manners, pianners, tables and chairs,
Belong to the lady who lives upstairs.

Growing up along the south coast, a familiar expression if you found something a bit incredulous was a tut followed by a long drawn out weee. I still think this but only once in the many years since I moved away have I actually said it out loud and nobody knew what I was on about 😁. I still say you're flying at half mast if someone's flies are undone and I have a friend who says crumbs and crikey!

Nowt so queer as folk?

You look like the vicars son...when someone wore their trousers pulled up too high... possibly not so relevent now with high waisted trousers being in fashion!