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 colouring in 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

Vice admiral of the narrow seas

Up wooden hill. That takes me back.

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

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!”