Words and phrases that you like and wish you'd hear more often (light hearted)

[ShockingBritain]

Any phrases people would like hear more often?

After reading thread about phrases that give people 'rage'.

I don’t mind if I do

My nanna used to call everyone chucklebutty, it means love/darling over in the East Midlands.

Also "plonker".

I use it sometimes. I might start using it more often!

Love this one.

My late PILs used that phrase to mean small children becoming over tired or overwrought, ie with no visible means of support.

Shenanigans
Malarkey
I also like "posho" expressions delivered in a more down to earth accent. When asked how he's doing a friend says "champion" or "tickety boo" with comic delivery.

Excuse me please rather than just excuse me

My husband occasionally threatens to lead a one-man revival of “going for a slash”, as it was the favoured variant of “going for a pee’ when he was a teenager. He also uses ‘coming down like stair rods” when it’s raining heavily and has been known to call people - affectionately- a “daft ha’porth”.

I rather like “champion”, as mentioned by another poster, and even though David Dickinson grossly overused it during his fifteen minutes of fame, “bobby dazzler”. (I can still hear my grandma saying it when I was dutifully paraded in front of her in my new grammar school uniform, “eeh lass, tha’s a reight bobby dazzler!” A nice little fragment of memory.)

Timorous

Phrases from my Yorkshire youth that I don't hear much and miss.

"I was stood there like Joe Loss"

"Well, I'll go to the bottom of our stairs!"

Peevish.

Love the word peevish, it's great.

Nincompoop
Drat
Cheerio!
Toodle-pip! Or toodle-oo!

Bally instead of bloody. Reminds me of my mother!

George (can’t remember the surname) the house renovation guy on channel 4 always says crikey. I have made it my goal to use crikey in a sentence. Always think after … oh I should have said it…. One day!

A fit of piqué

Yes this one

mercurial

I heard one on the celeb traitors that I've not heard before: don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining. Love it!

Aww. My dad, also East Mids, uses chucklebutty ❤️

Crazy daisy and sure indeedy

I’m not as daft as I’m cabbage-looking.

I don’t boil my cabbages twice.

I’m going to see a man about a dog….

I’m on a one woman crusade to bring ‘tis back.

@CousinBette I’m not as daft as I’m cabbage-looking.

I know that as ‘I’m not as green as I’m cabbage-looking.’

Kerfuffle