Outdated sayings Do you know any?

Well, you still have to 'pull the chain' to flush my upstairs loo, so that saying's not outdated here!

Very 'retro' of you Ana they are the in thing just now ( along with roll top baths.)

I think it's been there since the house was built, circa 1910!

The young wouldn't understand 'spend a penny' either.

Or 'you daft ha'porth' which for many years I thought was spelled apeth.
My grandma was prone to saying she would get vexed with me if I didn't refrain from doing something she considered unacceptable.

"You'll be waiting till the cows come home."
I suppose the cows had to be fetched? Does anyone know?

'She's no better than she ought to be' delivered in a scathing tone is never heard any more. I never quiet understood exactly what the bench mark was but it's certainly not applied to anyone these days! Anything goes! I suppose it might have been in the realm of 'all fur coat and no knickers'... lol!

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, when amazed by something.

She's / He's pots for rags!

Mrs Eggy my Dad was born and brought up on a small farm and they had cows which had to brought in for milking twice a day. He had a very clever Border collie and he trained the dog to bring the cows in on its own.
All Dad had to do was open the field gate and the doors to the cowshed and the dog brought them right in there!

Dad took the milk round their customers in a horse drawn dray with the milk in a churn and measured it out into the customers' own jugs.

Its all my eye and Betty Martin (?)
Tell that to the Marines
Right you are
etc etc

'Big girl's blouse' always puzzled me
'I've half a mind to...' is another
My FIL would say 'Suck my bob' which not only drove MIL into an apoplexy it also was never translated as to what or who 'Bob' was!

"Cor! Love a duck!" Would you? Could you?

Bobs your uncle!

And Charley's your aunt!

Fanny's your granny!

I'll go to the foot of our stairs

Black as hell's doorknocker. Usually used to describe my hands when I was little.

Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire

Similar to rubysong's post - Black as Newgate's knocker (Referring to Newgate Prison I believe)

"It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's!"

As sick as a Blackpool donkey.

Nope!

How many threads have we had on this subject now?