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'.

Do you have West Riding connections, @SerendipityCat?

Combining two similar phrases from upthread, I know “Well, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs.”

I’m from near Barnsley and Lancashire, and a friend is from Bradford, although we have both lived down south for about fifty years.
We occasionally use phrases from our childhood just to amuse each other.

Drat

I say ‘drat’ and ‘rats.’

Years of working with children means I am trained not to swear.

My grandmother would always say people would have "16 fits and conniptions".

Have a great rest of your day and a great rest of your week

I picked up the expression "kerfuffle queue" from here (for the queue you get in and it's always the wrong one).

DH and I have since extended it to people who get on our trains at Clapham Junction because they are often coming from Gatwick airport, the trains are already busy, they have large cases, kids, prams etc and there's no space for them so it causes a kerfuffle.

When I was a kid, a lot of people used “wazzak” as an insult. Seems to have died out in common parlance.

I’ve always liked the phrase “not my circus, not my monkeys”.

I’ll be there now in a minute!

I like it when people say “Cheerio!” For goodbye. Haven’t heard it for a long time though.

‘Shiver me timbers’, instead of shit. One of my students once said it and it’s always tickled me 🤣

Lol in an effort to avoid swearing in front of their small children my friends adopted a kind of screwball comedy vocabulary, clowns and knuckleheads etc.
Knucklehead is actually a satisfying mouthful if you’re trying not to say fucking arsehole or similar.

My very sweet and sensitive auntie used to say ‘Oh my stars!’ or ‘my heart!’
I don’t like ‘Oh my god’, would love to hear ‘My stars!’ instead

she looked like she’d been dragged through a hedge backwards. If someone looks a mess. I’m all upside down and don’t know if I’m coming or going. Discombobulated. If my dad thought someone was talking rubbish he’d tell them to go and boil their head. If somewhere is a distance you’d say he went twice round the Wrekin and back again. I’m from the West Midlands

Kerfuffle?

I really like the word esophagus. I hardly ever need to use it though.
It has been pointed out to me that I use the word ‘super’ like someone out of an Enid Blyton novel, which I am not unhappy about!

My Granny used to say “eee, fancy!” When she came across something unusual

Reticule. It just sounds nicer than handbag.

My grandmother used to say ‘Stop playing the giddy ox’ 😂 Aimed always at overexcited children. I still use it now.

I really like "oh crumbs". Or "gosh".

I try to use ‘splendid’ and ‘fabulous’ as much as possible.
I used the word ‘discombobulated’ to describe how I was feeling today; the 17 year old I was with at the time said he felt the same. I was flabbergasted that he knew its meaning 😀🤣🤣

Blowing a hoolie

I use "super" a lot. I decided to bring it back into my vocabulary when everyone else was saying "perfect". It actually goes down really well.

Was going to say this myself.
"Have a nice day" with a genuine smile really does brighten my day.

The strongest words I ever heard my mum say were ‘oh blast’ which she reserved only for the most disastrous of situations! I quite like it as an alternative to swearing. Short for ‘damn and blast’ I think, which you also never hear anymore!

My grandad used to use ‘presently’ a lot
to mean ‘soon’. I use it occasionally just to keep his words going.

Love ‘oh crumbs’! I’ve made a mental note to start using it!