To think "smashing" is a thoroughly underused word these days?

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My colleague (fabulous old boy, clearly had a whale of a time in the sixties) used it today and I thought, you just don't hear that enough!

Even better - "smasher", as in he/she's a smasher.

I'm very fond of good lord!, dear lord!, good heavens!, and gracious!

Tickety Boo is my personal favourite!

Stephen Fry - "so how are you today? Tickety Boo or Not So Pucker?"

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Heavens Above! and Heavens to Betsy!

Oh and shockingly used for emphasis: that ice-cream was shockingly good."

And shocker. You are a shocker, DS.

and 'reeks': he reeks of money!

I think I am chanelling an RAF wife c1956

My grandmother used to say, if someone crashed their car, "he had a bit of a prang.."

What's a "cresh'?

....a pile-up in Knightsbridge!

Oh, you heard it already.............

YY I know excatly what you mean! My 1950-isms become even more pronounced when I am trying not to swear in front of the dear children.
So instead of ''fuck me, this ice cream is orgasmic!!''

I say ''Golly, simply splendid ices, what?''

my boys are ''horrid little oiks''

I often say my dd and her mates are an : "ebsolute shaaar!"
Meaning "absolute shower!"
They think it is v funny.

super
marvellous
splendid

are all good

I do say crikey and blimey quite alot too
and lordy

loooooooooooordy!

Oh that is quite the loopiest yet - super!

I never actually say super I hasten to add
maybe I should start?
splendid, yes, marvellous, yes
and tremendous, that's a good un

I like anything like this.

Old war films, old St Trinians or films like Noel Coward's play 'This Happy Breed' where people are 'terribly terribly brave' and 'come on muvver lets 'ave a knees up' Brilliant!

baffoon?

don't forget horrid and nincompoop (sp?). also I'm campaigning 'lorks' as in 'lorks, what a pea-souper', or 'lorks mary poppins' (think dick van dyke).

I am under 70 years old, promise.

lorks a lordy!

cripes

utter tosh

Oooh ooh

To be perfectly frank, he's a bit of a spiv.

'terbly brev' surely tsarchasm

they had dutch woman saying 'smashing' on the muslim women prog earlier.

i use crikey, super and yikes a lot. my mum used to say jolly but stopped, i think we may have teased her. horrid beasts.

Hey - I knew a dutch woman who said shmashing! She wasn't a midwife was she fishie?

love it....the famous five were my fave books!

Oh I say fishie! Quite right.. 'brev' is correct.