To flick or not to flick?

I once worked for a very starchy cavalry officer - always immaculately turned out. I met him in the corridor of our building as he came back from lunch one day with a bit of his shirt poking it of his fly, which he had omitted to do up. As I passed him, looking straight ahead, I said "Good afternoon sir, your medals are showing!" He said, looking straight ahead, "Thankyou, sergeant. Good afternoon."

spurs at the bottom of the league ... flies undone

It's snowing down south..slip showing.
Egg on your face-flies undone
pompa daren't speak, chair was giving us his speech!

'It's snowing down south'!!

Oh yes - flying low without a licence.

It's raining in Paris was one of our euphemisms. For undone flies, I think I have heard, 'you're flying low'.

Charlie's dead.

Followed by, 'it's clean and well paid for'.

Does anyone remember the variety of euphemisms we used to use to let someone know her petticoat was showing? I'd completely forgotten that until I read this thread! I think there were similar expressions for 'Your flies are undone'.

This reminds me of the Robert Burns poem,"To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church". After much musing and light-hearted mockery of the young lady who thinks she looks so fine, but has a louse crawling on her hat, he comes to the well-known conclusion:

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!

Amazing, isn't it, how a poem can be made out of such a mundane observation. It strikes me that Burns must have been rather bored by the minister's sermon!

I once told a woman that her skirt was tucked up her knickers. She was furious!

Or just nicked it !

Yes. But not if it's the swing ticket. She might be going to take it back the next day.

Perhaps you ladies could help me? If a lady has the label on her top showing, should I tell her ?

I agree with pompa

I think I would just tell him he had a bug on his shirt.

Well, you left it too late didn't you! He could hardly have stood up and taken his shirt off to fish the thing out could he?

Nope, not a good idea if touching is involved! he may get the wrong idea in all sorts of ways.If it had been a wasp then you could have told him or waved it away but not an innocent little bug (even a not so innocent one.)

No, but I really wanted to tell a young lady on the train that her trouser zip was down but I didn't want to embarrass her in front of a bunch of young man who were standing by us. So I did nothing. Cowardy custard!