Words from a past generation

I think they'll make a bomb doing that - meaning I think they'll make a lot of money doing that. I always use that expression.

My husbands grandmother used to say

She’s sh-t her potful

Which always makes me smile

Wireless
Okey dokey
Lugoles
Pictures
Still use these

DH always calls our children and GC chaps and chappesses.
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire was Dad’s along with the bone in his leg.
“It’s beef!” is one of DH’s to describe anything good - an old advert I think.
As nesh as a gas mantle

Oh yes! Lugholes and fisogs!

I know many of these and they have made me smile! How about

Toodle pip
and
Twerp

My son has just roared with laughter when I went to the dryer for my petticoat. (Wearing a nice thin dress today)

I told my grandson (12) the other day that he had ‘the life of Riley ‘ , as he had not long been home from a school trip to France, and was off two days later on a trip to Kenilworth Castle....his reply was “ well I would have nan , my names Riley”..... which it is, I’d momentarily forgotten!

I say pretty much most of the above! (Pretty much!!!)

“Oh my giddy Aunt.”

I ask my GD 'did you pull the chain' after her visit to the loo

I said I was flabbergasted the other day and my 9 year old GD couldn’t stop laughing and said no ones uses words like that any more nana! ?

Instead of recording a tv programme I am taping or videoing it. Cinema is the pictures. I still say 'pull the chain' rather than 'flush the loo' yet I was 5 the last time we had a loo with a chain in the house. ?

I still use a lot of the aforementiond words and phrases. My son is doing his best to keep Cockney rhyming slang alive, our conversations sometimes sound like a script from 'Only Fools and 'Orses'! Our GC often seem to be speaking a different language to us, and they probably think the same of things we say, but I guess it's the same with every generation.

Looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.
Going to hell in a handcart.
My mother used to say that she had a bone in her leg if she didn't want to do something and I also had a liberty bodice.

My mum says “she’s no better than she ought to be”
I still don’t get it!

When telling the time I always say five and twenty past or five and twenty to instead of twenty five past or to.

My FiL would always refer to our DD as ‘our wench’! A Midland phrase which never failed to wind up a rebellious teenager!

Galoshes.

My dad always says ‘put that wooden block in the hole’ meaning ‘close the door’!

Gordon Bennett!
I said it to my GS yesterday. He said 'I never hear anybody else say that, Grandma'.

It's better than a clout in the eye with a damp rag.
That was one of my mother's favourite expressions when accepting a compromise. I use it quite often myself.

Hell's bells and buckets of blood.
But not in front of the GCs - they're too impressionable!

I’m a “ Gordon Bennett” user as well, Amagran.
The other one I use is “Oh my giddy aunt”, but I don’t know whether I made that one up!

Oh dear this is embarrassing. We once advertised on one of those online search-for-a-builder websites for someone to fit out our glory hole. Our offspring were horrified. Apparently it has a much livelier meaning for their generation than the large cupboard where broken vacuum cleaners, unused sport equipment and suitcases are kept. Fortunately the builder was as innocent as us

Beverage, when offering tea or coffee

It sounded odd to me when my DS1 texted me back with "Oh dear" in reply to a report of how his Nanna is doing. (Not very well at all at the moment)

I don't know what else he could have said, but it did seem tame and old-fashioned for a 37-year-old.