Words from a past generation

Blood and sand and stomach pills

I said to GD yesterday 'Home James, and don't spare the horses', which my mother used to say whenever it was time to leave. GD looked at me as though I was crazy, and told me that I should take more care of the horses!

That's just reminded me of Shanks' Pony.

Grammeretto
Going for an Eartha is Cockney rhyming slang ( Eartha Kitt)
As with all CR slang you use the first part ( which doesn’t rhyme) ?
So going for a Ruby ( a curry) is from Ruby Murray,
Going up the apples (stairs) from apples and pears,
Using your minces ( eyes) from mince pies,
Having a butchers (look) from butchers hook.Etc.

Go on Lemongrove, tell them what an Eartha Kitt & a Richard the Third are?

Blimey
Toodles
The pictures
The doings

Fewer when referring to a collective noun, as in, there are fewer policemen. Now people seem to say less instead.

Please and thank you

Back in the late 60s one of the regulars in our local went to work in New York. The accommodation agency asked if he was gay and he responded with “I suppose I’m quite a happy chap”.

I said of a talkative school boy that he had been inoculated with a gramophone needle-

My younger colleague (nearly young enough to be my granddaughter) had never heard the expression, but she got the point.

My liberty bodice had suspenders to hold my stockings up!

They were called liberty bodices because they didn't have bones like corsets did.

CanadianGran interesting post.

To me a Chesterfield is a certain design of sofa i.e. low button back and usually leather, rather than an old fashioned word for sofa. Also a chest of drawers is just that where as a dresser has shelves above the drawers.

Ne'er do well

Whilst, whoopsadaisy, sitting room (as oppose to lounge), beau (for new partner)

jumper,
going to the pictures.
nit picking
wireless
fish slice
coal hole
glory hole
The last one is lockers, which our bedside tables were always called.
forgot, fag sh lil

Courting.

My dad used to say ‘kinky’ meaning outre and fashionable even after he had it pointed out that the meaning to others was not what he intended.

My granddaughter was incensed one morning when I shouted after her “Close the door, were you born in a barn”? She thought it was an insult. She’s got used to it now along with other expressions.

I regularly say “are you ready, boots” and then “start walking” when I’m putting a meal on the table. It’s the last line from “These Boots are made for walking” by Nancy Sinatra and it’s just stuck with me. My granddaughter hasn’t ever heard the song but she just accepts it's what I say!

I still describe electronic games as 'video games' despite videos being a thing of the past. What are they called now?

Crivvens!!!

My Mom used to say "you'll be waiting till the cows come home" meaning never.

Crumbs
tickety-boo
fettled
pictures (cinema)
in my day
throne/thunderbox (loo)
gesunder (goes under the bed - potty)
blooming
pinny
trouble a'mill
righty-ho
guttering and perching (from Reggie Perrin)

Cheerio!

I still say it, does anyone else?

I do, now and then MissA