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'.

Blidge as a exclamation of surprise. Also gert/gurt as a filler word as in gert big, gurt lush...all west country words

Heebie jeebies

Sometimes when I see a person with tattoos all over their face or similar I hear my granddad (insert laconic Yorkshire accent): "The things you see when you haven't got your gun". And people who talked too much had "a mouth like t'parish oven". He was probably also one of the last to say thee / tha / thissen etc. And "yon", as in this thing, that thing and yon (more distant) thing. And "Are yer ears painted on?").

Or ‘came up the Clyde on a banana boat’

Me, too

My fave is Bellend

Mumsnet will ban me if I call someone that again 😪

‘Oh, fiddlesticks’

Lollygagging
Flibbertigibbet

Vaccinated with a grammar phone needle.

Ridonculous

Lollygag
love this word

like many of the mentioned ones
Going pear shaped

D’oh just expressed perfectly for me and that moment of realisation that things have gone wrong

Dilly dallying

Defenestrate. I endeavour to work that one into conversation regularly but it is tricky.

My late aunt when asked what she’d been up to today would reply
“just fussing and farting”.
Also my grandmother’s favourite saying when things went awry was
“it’s all gone cabbage wrong “

‘10 o’clock and no’ a bairn washed!’ I use out at work all the time to confuse my mostly French and English colleagues

Christ on a bike! A favourite of my lovely Glaswegian flatmate in Uni days 😂.

Gramophone, surely.

Wasn’t the grammar phone a pre-internet telephone line that one could ring for the correct grammar in any situation? A bit like calling the speaking clock for the correct time ;)

You make a better door than a window.
Were you born in a barn?
I also know the cabbage one as not as green as cabbage-looking.
Love them and must use more.

"Wazzock". It means idiot " he's a wazzock, him". My dad used to call people that in his very broad Somerset accent.

Well,I'll go to the bottom of our stairs!😁
(used to describe shock or surprise)

My Dublin granny said it this way -

Janey Mac
Me shirt is black
And won't get washed till Monday.

If we were misbehaving we were "very bold", and she often called me a "ginnet" for the same reason as I was very stubborn child. I only recently found out that a ginnet is a mule 😊

Whippersnapper! My dad used to call us this when we were kids. I heard someone say it to their grandchild the other day, not heard it in years..made me smile

Me too and I’m a secondary school English teacher so I feel it’s public service to use phrases like, ‘she is the cat’s mother’, two shakes of a lamb’s tail etc

This reminds me of school when it was all the rage to put gurt in front of a word and ‘ness’ after it. So, I’m going to gurt Biology ness. My poor friend who was prone to blushing said in response to a friend’s query about which lesson we had next, ‘ It’s gurt PE ness.’ She never lived it down,