Clichés past their sell-by date

Riverwalk "I dislike 'fell pregnant' - it's used on GN from time to time". That is an expression which has always made me smile, did the woman fall over and land on a man's penis!!

My parents would talk about a certain young girl as being "no better than she ought to be"

Others include:

Like a broken record
In a jiffy
Fit as a fiddle

My dad always used to say "dirty A rab" when we hadn't kept ourselves or something clean enough. I never thought much of it until I said it to my son, when he was about 15ish. He looked so shocked and said..." Mum, you can't say that! " I then realized what a dredful expression it was and have never used it since, but what we used to say in the 60's doesn't really bear thinking about now, does it.

I was taking out a girl and her father said to me. Young man, I never want to reply to my daughter with these words:
"You are pregnant? Charming, bloody charming!"

The girl quip at the time was: "My mother will not like it."
To which the boy replied: "Your mother's not getting it."

An extension of that Grammaretto is "no nice young man who really respects a girl would EVER ask to sleep with them before marriage".

Ha!Ha!Ha!

My parents didn’t know I was pregnant dragonfly or things may have been very different. To be fair nor did I, until I had the baby . He was very small so the doctors assumed 4-5 weeks early.

What about “can’t keep it in his trousers “ as my sons father clearly couldn’t

Gillybob you were lucky in a way. My friend's family hid her away when she was pregnant at 17 and after she had the child they put her up for adoption. Even though they reunited when the girl was in her thirties my friend has suffered terribly from guilt.

What about 'keep your hand on your ha'penny'

Shotgun wedding
She's in the family way
She's got herself in the family way (without help presumably!)

Ellenvannin Is your point that if a girl has a child at 11 she should be allowed to marry at 11?

Exactly janeainsworth!

I "lived in sin" before we married but no one seems to do that these days!

Me too grannybags, but I disagree that no-one does it now.
They all do!
The difference is that it isn’t regarded as ‘sinful’

" Get married to give the baby a name "-----?

A girl can become pregnant at any age but has to have consent to marry if she's under 21 !!!???

I "lived in sin" before we married but no one seems to do that these days!

How about " a touch of the tarbrush " My cousin said this to her mother who must have had Indian blood in her but always denied it . I thought it was a pity she denied this part of her heritage but being born in India in the early 20th century it was difficult . I used to love hearing about her time in a boarding school where her mother was a housemother she had little Indian princesses in the school beside her . Having married my uncle, a jute wallah , they came to the UK and she never wanted to go back to India.

I can’t imagine it now Grammaretto and to be honest it didn’t even happen so much in 1980 when I had my son . My parents were deeply ashamed and thought that if they “forced” a marriage everything would turn out okay . How very wrong they were . I shamed them yet again by getting divorced only months after the marriage . Oh dear .

gillybob imagine that now. I don't think it happens anymore which is a good thing. I got "now don't be getting yourself pregnant because no nice man will marry you".
I'm still confused.

Yes I have the experience of “having to get married “ after having my son . No surprise that the marriage lasted only months .

I forgot three dragonfly

‘She has got herself into trouble ‘

‘She was lucky he married her’

‘Don’t you bring trouble home ‘

Trouble being a pregnancy ?

Annie

‘ it’s up to the boy to try and the girl to say no’

‘He had to marry her’

‘Knickers come off faster than trousers’

‘A boy can’t chase a girl with his trousers down’

The saying which is out dated for me is.......^sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me^. Surely proven to be untrue in this world of social media we all inhabit. I can remember people saying things many years ago which can still hurt.

I “got myself pregnant” at 17 and I “made my bed and lay in it “ .

I dislike 'fell pregnant' - it's used on GN from time to time.

I heard my FiL talking about a "bit on the side" and a "floosie"
I just shook my head as he is in his 90s but really! I'm ashamed at myself for not teaching him better over the years.

This phrase is new to me. As my MiL always used to say 'It takes two to make a bargain.'