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'.

That one's got a face you'd never tire of slapping

Fiddlesticks

Smashing

Jiggery pokery

I used to work with a lady who had a couple of amazing phrases.

She would say she would have to walk away as 'a slap in the face often offends' when someone was annoying her.

My favourite was on the Christmas do she told me she was wearing her 'harvest festival' knickers. I looked confused and she explained, 'all is safely gathered in'.

Delivered in a Welsh accent somehow made it funnier.

My grandparents were always full of classics:

“As useful as a hip pocket in a singlet”

”Acting like the Queen of Sheba”

”A face like a hatful of chewed up string”

“He’d whinge if his bum was on fire”

I’m grateful to still have both them and their expressions around 🙂

My grandma used to say 'she's no better than she ought to be'; and 'it's getting dark over our Bill's '. Also 'Oh my giddy aunt' was a favourite. I do miss her!

I do indeed, I'm from a small mill town north-west of Leeds. There were plenty of dialect speakers when I was growing up in the 60s (including my grandma), but they're all gone now. I try to keep the expressions alive as much as I can.

Yes! I didn't put "plonker" because its actually in pretty common usage here - in my family and among my neighbours.

There's a bloke on my street who smokes a pipe. On the women's street WhatsApp group he's known as "Pipe Plonker" 😂

Is your grandmother a Midlander?

My grandad used to say "It's getting black over Bill's mother's house" meaning its going to rain - that black clouds are gathering in the distance, the distance being over Bill's mother's house, Bill referring to Shakespeare.

Sorry not read the thread...
I was out for coffee with a friend and we were discussing how people shape their homes, the choices they make.

I have seen houses with no artwork, no plants, no books, no decorative items at all. Lovely homes with beautiful furniture but I could not read anything about them.

My house is the complete opposite and I know that some people will find that overwhelming. I said, "Oh when visitors walk in for the first time, they can't take their eyes off all the tranklements, whether in horror or admiration!" 👀😳😂

My pal had never heard that word but said he is definitely going to use it!

I've lived in Wales and on Merseyside and honestly can't remember where I first heard it.
I'll search it later.
I use it to encompass all the items my wife and I have acquired over the years. Each one has a story, holds a memory and brings us joy!

Gormless

Not sure if this one counts and it's a bit rude

Rumpey pumpey

I saw an exchange on Facebook where someone said they were going away for the weekend and a friend replied “Ooh a bit of how’s your father?” First person replied “He’s doing well, thanks for asking.”

‘All the better for seeing you’… said by elderly Grandad every time when opening the front door and asking how he was …

How do you do? Also,
she showed him a clean pair of heels..!

Gordon Bennett (who was he?)
My father used to say he 'had a bone in his leg' when he didn't want to do something!
Love the word parsimonious (mean).
Two shakes of a lamb's tail is rather sweet, meaning in a couple of minues.

My mam says this but pronounces it as "ker-rikey!" - which sounds even better 😃

I like wazzock, as previously mentioned, and also twerp. Both work best preceded by the word right.
I would also like to revive the 70s greeting wotcha / wotcher.

I'm originally from near Barnsley too but now live in the NE.
Despite my mam saying "if you can't think of anything nice to say, don't say anything at all", one of her phrases on seeing a couple who aren't very bonny looking is "well they're not spoiling anyone else's chances" 😃 the Geordie version of this is "why spoil two houses?"

This one is great. Other phrases connected to it are "yer great gorm" or "take no gorm" for take no notice. It's pronounced (in S Yorks) as "tek ner gorm".

I used to love watching Hacker T Dog with the DC. The way he spoke reminded me of DGF.
One of those was “the lav” for the toilet.

Crumbs
Cripes
Good Heavens
Put that in your pipe and smoke it

Another one for fiddlesticks. And my Nan also used to say butter fingers when she dropped something.

Spaffing. Love that word 😅

I love outwith which I first heard from a Scottish colleague.