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A man on the tellybox has just used the phrase "heavens to Betsy", one of my favourites. I think we should use things like this more often, remind me of some more... please (nearly forgot my manners there).
A friend was pleased to have been called a nincompoop by myself.
"I'm stood over here, like piffy on a rock bun"
"You wassock"
My daughter read a lot of Enid Blyton and has now been through the Conan Doyle Holmes stories.
Her school report said she had good use of language but it was often archaic 🙂
Don't be a daft h'appeth!
Bring back TJ.
Increase in the value of the pound?
🙂
"I shan't be there"
"Shan't you?"
"I shannot"
😀
My folks have always used "5 and twenty past" or "5 and twenty to" when talking about time
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 😯
If you ask my mum what the time is, she'll reply "a quarter to cheese by the village pump". which TBH isn't very helpful.
I quite like "going to hell in a handcart".
Balderdash and piffle, poppycock, bunkum
Thar shappin up wooden
Thar shappin up like my arse
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.
One of my mum's favourite insults was calling someone a "fathead". I think I need to use that one.
"Please may you"
One I use every time I meet someone for the first time: "How do you do?"
For some off reason, even in a formal setting, people these days seem to greet each other with "Nice to meet you", which is something I might say on parting ("Nice to have met you.").
But then I did spend several years as a lawyer, and words like "aforementioned" and "hereto" were still in relatively common use in contracts (and probably in daily speech for [s]colouring in[/s] property lawyers).
"Don't just sit there like cheese at fourpence"
I bashed my bonce the other day.
Geraway wi ye bother
What to me? Mi father's a bobby.
Willie Eckerslike
Pass us mi giglamps
I used to work at an expensive Edinburgh school and one day a senior pupil ran up to me and informed me of the "ne'er do well rapscallions" on the premises. The weird time travel comucation was completed when the first two police officers to arrive did so on horseback and I had to ask a boy to hold the officers horse while we went to the school office.
Don't be a daft h'appeth!
Yorkshire grandparents as well?
Jolly good.
I am not sure if that is an old-fashioned phrase but it certainly cracks me up when I hear someone saying it.
"I'll tell you for why".
'i was right about that saddle though'
"Sling your hook " & "look sharp"
Both used by my grandparents and now used regularly by me.
Up wooden hill. That takes me back.
I heard an old chap say 'much obliged' nice expression
Somehow appropriate to STW
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Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.Up wooden hill. That takes me back.
Willie Eckerslike
😀 Brilliant!
I sometimes feel the need to call someone a chutney ferret, no idea why, but it makes me smile 😀
Crikey O'Riley!
"Fur coat and no knickers" was one my grandma, bless her soul, used to come out with.
After a meal my grandpa used to say he had had "ample sufficiency"
gay whaarm
Gosh!
We taught my syrian colleague BALDERDASH! Now he shouts it at people unironically, it's great.
Gosh!
Or even "Oh my golly gosh!"
Toodlepip.
Cheeky monkey.
Good as Gold
Gordon Bennet!
''Face like a madmans arse''
My grandmother used to say to me if I complained of a painful finger or the like " there will be a pigs foot on it in the morning"
I actually use a fair few of the phrases on here - usually ironically honestly.
I like "jings, crivens, help ma' boab"
TTFN - if anyone else knows what that means.
"Face like a well skelpt arse"
I do indeed Lady G
We're all Jock Tamsons Bairns
"He's had his chips"
Bloomin ummer!
I'll go t'foot of our stairs!
Very Yorkshire though...
We taught my syrian colleague BALDERDASH! Now he shouts it at people unironically, it's great.
A few weeks ago I went out walking with a few Northern mates across the green and hillies south of Exeter. After a few "good afternoon" greetings I dropped into "hey up" and it stuck. We all met the oncoming walkers with "hey up" to various degrees of bemusement.
My Dad likes to say "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs" when exasperated. Not sure if ironic or not cos he's now reasonably old but not that old.
"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs"
That was one of my dad's frequent sayings too.
I had occasion to tell off my six year old daughter at the weekend for crying crocodile tears.
"Stop blubbing!" I said and was immediately transported 30 years back to prep school.
Heavens to murgatroyd. Class.
"Fyas (face) like bad fat"
I had forgotten about Our Wullie/The Broons' ones.. "Jings" & "crivens", ha.
I still use "scunner" though...heard that on supergran!
TTFN - if anyone else knows what that means.
ta-ta for now?
i also still use..... eh up, and eeeeeee......champion.
So, "heavens to Betsy" or "heavens to Murgatroyd"? Is the first southern and the second northern?
Black Country aunts and uncles have a load of them.
(Referring to woman who has a high-pitched voice)
'Er sounds loike a glade stuck under a dower!'
('She sounds like a gleed stuck under a door')
A 'gleed' refers to a small piece of coal escaped from the fire making itself known when the door is opened and it squeals across the floor tiles.
Also:
''Time to go up the wooden hill'. (Time for bed)
Oh no! (In broad Yorkshire accent from mrs_oab)
It's more
'Orr norr'
Lady Gresley - MemberSo, "heavens to Betsy" or "heavens to Murgatroyd"? Is the first southern and the second northern?
The second is Snagglepuss
I always say "Tickety boo" when my sister asks how I am.
Also I like 'maynt', contraction of 'may not'.
Yip,
You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl.
Pillock.
"Wurz it too"? Devonshire for "where is that"
Only a Cumbrian would know "Ah's garn wee crack a deek aboot"
Oh my Giddy Aunt...
he's had his chips
reminds me of my grandad...
also - gone for a burton
my nan was more savage with - I'll have yer guts fer garters, or - I'll put yer eye in a sling and - tell tale tit, yer tongue will be slit, and all the little dicky birds shall have a little bit
while my stepdad always liked to call me a berk
/Scouse accent
He's gorra face like a ruptured custard.
/ Scouse accent end
Was one of my grans most famous sayings....
The commercial director of a newspaper group I freelance for assured me only this morning that the client who was woefully late with his ads was about to email the camera ready artwork.
Well that took us back in time...
.. Shame there isn't a repro house left in the country.
Lowp owa a yat
Clean dirt never fattened a pig, meaning a bit of dirt won't do you any harm. I think it might be Scottish.
What does the Cumbrian one mean? 🙂
Granny complaining about weak tea (West Cumbria:
"Tea begrudged an watter bewitched"
And I used this the other day, if anyone remembers what it's for:
"Bye bye Rosie, on you go. Birmingham via Great Whitchurch"
(an ex foreman taught me a filthy version when I was an apprentice, which I can't / won't repeat here)
What does the Cumbrian one mean?
Deekabout means to look around, the rest I don't know (I'm not a real Cumbrian). Lowp owwer t'yat is jump over the gate...
Wee crack (craic) = chat. Deekabout = look around.
The farmer next door to us when I grew up used to say it - it was a walk, chat and look around the farm or village....
Splud!
When flummoxed my dad used to say
" I don't know if my arsehole is punched,bored or reamed."
"put wood in ole"
What's the difference between a Ginnel and a Snicket? Answers on a postcard please. Now you don't here that anymore!
My old mum and various elder folk of the Worcestershire village I grew up in would comfortably swap out 'are' for 'be' - where be you? They'd also use 'gut'eck' as an exclamation, which I guess is a contraction of 'well, I'll go to hell'.
Fans of this kind of etymylogical quirkness should read Bryson's Mother Tongue - great book.
Gordon Bennet!
Oddly enough he came up in a conversation going on amount my team of drivers in the bus yesterday evening, the guy who mentioned it was amazed to discover that Mr Bennet actually existed!
Botheration is one I often use.
I think it's incumbent on us all to ensure these old words and phrases pass onto the next generation. Hence why I still use words on this forum such as 'Crikey' , 'Yikes' , Good Heavens, Jolly good etc. All slightly ironically obviously! 😀