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 love hullabaloo and kerfuffle but I don't seem to be able to slot them into conversation.

I do like some fripperies you can get in B&M.

My friend says ‘stop the bus!’ every time I say something that surprises her 😂 it always makes me laugh.

My 3 year old has taken to saying she’s fancy and I love it! Sometimes it’s just wearing her favourite cat pants🙂

Somerset & especially Bristol area when exiting the bus and thanking the driver people often say " Cheers drive"
Also more Somerset but when something has gone well using the expression " That,s the badger"

You tell that to bloody autocorrect. It's enough of a mission getting it to accept -ise and the existence of -ou-

South Wales present and correct.

By Jove

I use this a lot. Brings me joy. Along with Willy-nilly.

Flibbertigibbet
Floozie!

Oh hell’s bells! Oh hard cheese and poppycock.

My cockney gran was familiar with the saying “cor blimey, it’s cold enough for a walking stick innit. “

I like the word 'pootling', it makes me smile

I liked that the youngest of The Flumps (70’s kids’ TV programme) was called Pootle. So cute!

Cat's fur. Ever seen it on a dog ?

I love a bit of flapper slang - 'I hear Trevor is an awfully bad hat!' or 'I adore Clarissa but Dolly is an absolute pill.'

“Wreck of the Hesperus” - ideal when you’re looking a little windswept, bedraggled or generally unkempt

“Ye Gods and little fishes” - a good all-purpose expression of surprise

Doing something “like the clappers” or “nineteen to the dozen”

My grandmother would say 'dash' , meaning a little annoyed if for instance she dropped a knitting stitch.

Blithering idiot

Its all gobbledegook

Giddy kippering- used when DH starts making me laugh just before I go to sleep "stop giddy kippering me I won't sleep!"
Too slow to carry hats at their own funeral - as said by my very strange ex-MIL. Still no idea what it means 25 years after my divorce.....
Love the word snicket from my childhood in Yorkshire - means a cut through or alleyway.
Also a vote for it's blowing a hoolie out there.
I used to work with a junior doctor from Greece and she got me to teach her a word or phrase a day so she learnt colloquial English. It was a great way to use some really obscure phrases.