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?

We use both these expressions in Ireland too. I quite often use them both.

Old fashioned, not pretentious. I think its lovely and should be brought back.

Nah, it's just as old-fashioned and borderline pretentious as 'drawing' a bath.
Mind you, the person who asked me is incredibly posh (I'm incredibly not posh) and probably always says it.

"I'm just drawing my fucking bath, OK!"

It’s not pretentious at all, some of our family/friends prefer it made with salt and others with sugar, we always ask visitors how they ‘take’ their porridge. I also ask people how they ‘take’ their tea/coffee.

But asking someone if they take milk/sugar is very normal. What's the difference?

You draw water from a well. Thats how it came about. It just a saying that was transferred to a bath. No real pretence. Just old fashioned but who really cares? Lots of families keep going with odd sayings and words that aren’t widespread now.

That’s normal here. Like asking how someone takes their tea or coffee.

I suppose many young people don’t drink tea or coffee now though. I’m old.

Horses for courses, I suppose 😀

I use it as lot.

Inwas brought up in London but my Nan is from the north east and it was what she used to say.

The "take" that I have always found unusual and anachronistic is when people talk about which newspaper they take.

I don't take any newspaper. I always pay for it.

I say ‘draw the curtains’!

It’s old-fashioned but not strange.

It is quite posh but wouldn’t say pretentious if that’s what he’s always said!

I like old fashioned terminology!

What about, ‘which side does sir dress?’

That one has always made me chuckle!

Another non-posh Northerner who draws the curtains, but this one has always appreciated the concept of elevenses!

I grew up about as far north in Scotland as you can get and my grandparents (who brought me up) used draw for the bath and curtains.

Cockneys also say “orf”.
I need some serious advice, is drawing the curtains opening or closing them? Or does it depend on if they’re already open or closed?

But what you wouldn’t say that you pay for it but that you read it, because that’s the issue

How would you ask the question?

I agree with others; it’s no different to asking how you take your tea or coffee,

Definitely not a posh thing.

My husband draws a bath, draws the curtains and says bless you if I sneeze. I love it. He’s always said it. I once read that Jeremy Clarkson thought that saying condiments was pretentious, I can’t for the life of me think of another word for them.

Have. How do you have your porridge/tea/coffee obviously 😀 🤷

(which is different from 'do you take sugar', which is perfectly OK 😀)

No it’s not

I run and draw baths, but draw curtains.

I don't get the sniffiness about older usage; It's a broadening of the language, which has to be a good thing.

Several years ago, a colleague took me to task about using the expression "by a long chalk" in speech. They asked me what it meant, which I didn't mind at all, but then got bit tetchy and asked why on earth I should use such an expression that no-one understood. This was in Australia, which apart from having a rich vernacular of its own, uses many UK expressions, both old and new.

It was the intolerance that got me.

I, too, draw the curtains. I thought that was normal. I run a bath but I don’t mind draw a bath provided it’s not delivered a la Hyacinth Bucket.