Funny old sayings that give away (y)our age

@MiceElf "Liberty bodice, knicker elastic, darning socks, and the dreaded belt, pins and pads."

Oh! Soap and water...l wash your mouth out...

I still say 'It's five-and-twenty past...', frock (of course), no doubt if I had to refer to a lady's 'suit' it would be as a 'costume', wireless (natch),
gramophone (sometimes) .

HOWEVER

It annoys me when someone asks, re the TV, "What's on the other side?"
Of the hundreds of channels I have, which is "the other"?

feetle, in our house, if we had a telly, the answer to that would be 'dust'.

Does anyone remember a strange word we used for sticking plasters i.e spetch? Or was it just a local word in my Yorkshire village? Not heard it used since I was a child!

Plimsolls, anyone? And the Banda machine in an enclosed space - how hazardous was that?

I remember that word, gaga, but I haven't heard since in Yorkshire either. N British dialect, I suspect.

lilygran yes plimsolls and bumpers which where the thicker ones similar to the converse..kitchen cabinet and gas stove and scullery,mantelpiece

Definitely frocks, even posh frocks for special occassions.

A newer one: I say PC when I'm talking about my laptop.

Vacuum cleaner when everyone seems to say Hoover - mine isn't!

In Fife it used to be 'sandshoes' (or 'sannies' for those who were 'cool')! I always wear a 'frock' and never a 'dress' - of course that's when I'm not in my beloved jeans! 'Frock' sounds lovely and droopy and soft - whereas 'dress' is frilly and not me at all!

Isn't that strange? Frock is frilly and dress is comfortable and soft, to me!

Frock, wireless,swimming costume, tapes...........

Tape recorder even greatnan

We wore sandshoes (white) and gym shoes (black). We were in big trouble if we referred to these as 'gutties', deemed to be a West of Scotland slang term. I think gutties is the more interesting word being derived from gutta perch = rubber as the shoes were rubber soled. I have never had a frock, posh or otherwise, always dresses.

Before expensive, designer trainers, we wore simple black or white plimsolls.

This soft shoes are always called plimmies round here.

Do schoolchildren use satchels anymore?

A dress is an every day item but a posh frock is something special.

I say five and twenty past and five and twenty to.

We wore sandshoes (sannies).

The main light in the room is the big light...as in 'put the big light on'.

We used to sit on a settee but now everyone seems to sit on a sofa.

A frock in our house is used to describe a really, really posh dress and is never used alone but has to hyphenated with posh. A posh frock would be worn by someone who was mutton dressed up as lamb, which was my nan's favourite saying.

Big light - yes!

Does anyone get squiffy anymore?

Or wash the pots?

My lovely set of china, inherited from my grandmother, and displayed in the dresser, is called 'nana's old pots.'

I come from Nottingham, where it's definitely 'wash the pots'. Up here in Scotland, it's 'the dishes'.

I'm afraid I do Movedalot.

I still talk about the railway station rather than the train station.

Do you lay the table or set it?

We side it instead of clearing it! (Having set it initially of course)