[Closed] Wonderfully old-fashioned phrases

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"

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.

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 - Member

So, "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?

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!

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! 😀

By Eck. It's gorgeous

I so dislike the phrase 'going forward' as is often used in corporate bull these days, so use the term 'henceforth'

I used to be threatened with 'Woh be tied you!'.

Woe betide you, shirley?

"Damn, blast and botheration" is one I use from time to time.

Mentioned already ...

TTFN or just TT

Others

Use your loaf
Tickle your fancy
One brick short of a full load
One sandwich short of a picnic
Camp as a row of pink tents

'Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!'

Face like a smacked arse.

Shut yer cake hole

Put wood int ole, were yer born in a field?

Like sh*t off a shiny shovel

If I was standing in front of the TV, my gran would say "tha'd mek a better door than a winder."

I'm quite partial to "odds bodkins."

also - gone for a burton

Thats actually an old advertising slogan that slipped into common parlance. Whenever I've heard it used though its been to describe something thats gone wrong / fallen over / toppled. But in the context of the original advert, for Burton Ales, they were billboards depicting famous scenes - a key character missing because he'd gone to the pub instead at the the slogan below - 'He's gone for a Burton". I think it came to have the meaning it has now because it RAF pilots used the slogan as a euphemism during WW2 for pilots who didn't come back

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs

and jump off