Words from a past generation

Cheerio!

Oh dear !I must be careful not to use that expression again !

For those who still think a glory hole is a cupboard full of rubbish, usually under the stairs.
“A glory hole is a hole in a wall, or other partition, often between public lavatory cubicles or adult video arcade booths and lounges, for people to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate”. Wikipedia
Who’d have thought it??

Full of Piss and vinegar

Sh#t eatin' grin

Something is rotten in Denmark

Colder than a witch's ..

Penny just dropped about what rhymes with Eartha Kitt

I'm fairly sure that I had a liberty bodice on top of my vest after I'd had pneumonia in the very cold winter of 46/47. Suspenders could be attached to it to keep up my (utterly ghastly) lisle stockings.

Had to explain to a 12 year old why I was popping of to spend a penny !!!

I would understand glory hole. But eartha?
My mum used to talk about being gay and carefree.
Super and fab were common in my youth.
Braw in Scotland.
Nigel Molesworth was popular with his outrageous spelling and down with skool, ghastly, utterly wet and a weed

Chewbacca

I remember them all, what was the purpose of a liberty bodice? Was it just for extra warmth?

Petticoats
Liberty bodices
Pinnies

A lot of cockney rhyming slang is becoming obsolete now.
No point telling anyone you've got to go and have an Eartha anymore!

'Flicks' as an alternative to 'the pictures'
A 'pullover' became a 'tank top' in the 1970s. What is it now?
A 'chap' might be referred to as a 'bod'.
Most of us still refer to our weight in stones rather than kilos

Blooming as an adjective.
Super
Smashing
Knickers ( not pants)

Gordon Bennett
We still tape things too Nannyjan
I still do the Hoovering, even though I haven't owned a Hoover for years (Dyson, Shark etc)

I've learned something new then Chewbacca that's how I refer to the cupboard under the stairs, better keep quiet now.

Will you frame -meaning will you do it properly
Jolly hockey sticks - from my comics and books
I'll go to the foot of our stairs - indicates surprise

I wondered whether to mention chap. My father used to refer jokingly to chaps and chapesses.

Grandma70s - if not a bloke, what about a "chap"? Not that it's at all modern, but my GSs understand quite a lot of their Grannie's vocabulary these days. (Not the whole kit and kaboodle, though!)

I've recently moved house and I've acquired a cupboard under the stairs which, when I was a child, was always known as "The Glory Hole". A couple of days after moving into my new house, I asked my DS to put the vacuum cleaner in the glory hole. He stopped dead in his tracks and asked me to repeat what I'd said, with a look of this on his face. Then he explained, in a rather embarrassed way, that "the glory hole isn't what you think it is these days Mum". I couldn't get him to explain any further but apparently, I'm not to say it in public!

Baths instead of swimming pool. An elderly neighbour asked me one day if I still went to the baths for a swim. In the days when you could go there for a bath if you didn't have a bathroom. My dad told me he could remember going, but there were no plugs, and you had to jam your heel over the plug hole.

I certainly still say gosh and blimey/crikey. I didn’t know jumper was old fashioned. I’ve heard young people say it. I wouldn’t dream of saying sweater, such an ugly word.

Loo? That’s still in general use as far as I’m concerned. What’s the modern version? Toilet is just for shops and stations.

I still say bloke. I think I know it’s old-fashioned, but I can’t think of a modern equivalent unless it’s guy, and I don’t use Americanisms.

My daughter and some of the neighbouring children were mad on the Famous Five and picked up all sorts of odd words, I can still hear my daughter yelling at her friend, For goodness sake, use your loaf boy!

Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding
Humdinger ( as in...that’s a humdinger!)

Bob's your uncle (Fanny's your aunt and your granny's in the RAF!)

Hold your horses
God love old Ireland.
The flicks ( cinema)
Pint of milk
Weight in lbs and ounces

I have acouple of old Sunday school prize books that 2 elderly aunts gave me years ago, they date from 1911. In one, someone says "Oh Wilfred, you are a brick!" Meaning of course that they were pleased with what he`d done, but how many of today`s youngsters would know the expression?