To think it is posh and or pretentious to say you are "drawing" a bath?

[OonaStubbs]

What do you think. My DP always says this but I think it is very strange and old fashioned to say this instead of just saying you are running a bath?

Yes, the previous poster is saying that "draw the curtains" is a normal expression.

We draw the curtains as well!

I say draw the curtains too! And I’m northern and definitely not posh!

DH likes to say elevenses (although he is posher than me, and from the south). I find it rather quaint and endearing.

Totally normal,along with drawing the curtains.

EVERYONE DRAWS THE CURTAINS!! THAT WAS THE POINT!

My grandparents - who were anything but posh or pretentious - used say draw(ing) a bath. I’d not thought of that in decades and now I’m feeling all nicely nostalgic.

My mother in law used to say,
'I'm just waiting for the tea to draw.'

I don’t. I pull them.

My husband opens and closes the drapes.

I still don’t get that after re-reading. Perhaps it was the comment about pencils, which has nothing to do with drawing curtains or baths. Or the pull the curtains? 🤷‍♀️

My husband refers to a walk as stretching his legs ! Find it strange vocabulary and he washes his teeth! Surely cleaning or brushing teeth is the usual terminology

I certainly grew up ‘washing my teeth’.

I think it’s charming

I tend to think of “drawing” a bath as a more American expression whereas “running” a bath would be more UK.

Cool your jets 😆

I'm mid 40s and say draw a bath sometimes. Other times I say run. Depends on my mood.

I still spell jail as gaol too, which flummoxes a surprising number of people.

The poster was saying that "drawing a bath" has the same derivation as "drawing the curtains", and just because they have a different meaning to "drawing a picture with a pencil" doesn't make them weird or pretentious.

How is it pretentious? How else would you say it???

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say pull the curtains! Everyone I know says either draw or close the curtains!

Washing your teeth?! I draw the line/curtains/bath at that.

It does sound a bit daft

If he says it because he’s always said it, then that’s his vocabulary and you can’t criticise someone for being more eloquent than you.

If he’s saying it because he heard it somewhere and thinks it makes him sound like landed gentry then yes, he’s probably a bit of a pillock.

Where and when were you brought up?

Sometimes you just use a phrase you’ve heard in a book or on a film, not a fan of that but would rather hear someone say something like that than use the curse words so many people use now

Someone recently asked me how I 'take' my porridge 😀

That’s normal where we live, some people take it with salt and some with sugar.