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.

my chum/colleague keeps saying 'cool' and it make me larf

Gosh dang it. I went the whole way through this thread laughing till tears ran down my face (DH thoroughly unamused) and I was so desperate to get to the end to add my lashings of ginger beer and tigerfeet beat me to it. Sigh. The mere saying conjures up images or gorse bushes and picnic hampers with lemon curd sandwiches.

Let's not forget the lovely Hugh Grant moment from Notting Hill:

Whoopseydaisy!

My favourite Hugh Grant word is 'f@ckadoodle-do' from Four Weddings.

Whoops! There goes the tone of this thread. How utterly shame-making.

am very proud of myself......
have managed to slip

'by jove'

'heavens to betsy'

and my favourite 'beastly'

inadvertently into conversations today

Today I managed:
Oh, Botheration! (children are so used to Buggeration that they looked at me with fear in there eyes)

Crikey!

Good Lord!

Whatevernext?

Oh Brav - o [name of person], Bravo - o!

Was v much hoping to add 'ripping' to the roster but no joy, chaps.

Buggeration! their eyes. Good Lord!

fabulous is the in word in our house at the moment.everything is fabulous.

And actually, now I come to think, buggeration is surely a contender in and of itself? Oh please say it is, I will feel utterly vindicated and slightly heroic if you do.

no onebat - too coarse- much too coarse! verging on beastly if truth be told

Smashing is one of my faves, husband is forever taking the piss out of me for it

How about 'Back in a tick'? Brings Captain Oates nicely to mind, and if you are as feeble-minded as me you can wittily extend it to 'Back in a Tixylix'.

(on that note: every time I go to the loo, I have to say in a comedy Victorian voice and imagining an enormous snow-capped moustache on my upper lip, "I may be gone... for some time."

That's the kind of ass I am.

did you see what I did there? We've forgotten "What an ass".

chiz

and weedy chiz

Oh crikey! Nigel Molesworth! What a boy! as any fule kno.

'blithering' came to mind the other day

ahh, molesworth!

'blethering' is a good variant on 'blithering' too, tho' i suspect it only really goes with 'idiot'

Love smashing - a proper dad word
I use 'ooh great stuff' a lot
also 'oh cripes' 'Okey doke' 'berk'
Kids use 'Yikes!'

Smashing is super!

Balderdash!
Oh glory (it's a Welsh thing)
Crumbs!

I sometimes say "Rikes!" in the mannner of Scooby Doo...

Also "snazzum razzum rick rassety" in the manner of Mutley.

Just seen on another thread ..... pash.