Old fashioned expressions you still use.

'black as the ace of spades'...........nothing racist about that ! Unless, of course one is referring to people from Africa, India, etc. in a derogatively manner and even many of those races use the same descriptive words. It seems that 'coloured' is not used any more.

lovebeigecardigans1955

In and out like a fiddler's elbow.

And up and down like a tart’s drawers.

Gordon Bennett.

My aunt used to finish 'There's nowt so queer as folk' with 'except me & thee
And thee's a bit queer....'

I use nearly all of these and shall now make a point of doing that even more so my grandson learns them!

What colour is it? Sky blue pink.

Mutton dressed as lamb.
Never in a month of Sunday’s.
You aren’t the first and you certainly won’t be the last.

When you only had water to drink it was called Coporation Pop.

I still say to my GC (after their visit to the toilet) did you pull the chain? Of course we don't have a chain any more.

Wireless (for the radio)
Queen Anne front, Mary-Anne behind.
Going to the pictures (cinema)
The baths (swimming pool)
Getting one's knickers in a twist
Don't get eggy (ie agitated. I think that may be a scouse/wirralism)

Guess what my son will say? ? ? ?

If someone is cross they are in 'high dudgeon'.

Witzend my son, daughter and I love quoting from that BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. One of my son's favourites is "You must do what you think is right!" (Mr Darcy to Mr Bingley) This is my son's response to anything I say that suggests I intend to do something, whether significant or totally trivial. We've watched that brilliant series over and over again. I think I'll have it on again tonight! ?

Going to see a man about a dog. My Dad usd

Kerbstone fairy
Ladies of the night
My nans sayings to describe ladies who sold there bodies for money. She mainly used it to describe women not wearing a lot of clothes & too much makeup for a night out. She also used “the sights you see when you haven’t got a gun’.

Blow that for a game of soldiers.

My DF used to say "smack and hammer thst" when surprised about something.

Where you born in a barn. Not shutting the door to keep the heat in

What’s for dinner. Bread and butter and a run round the table.

Charlie’s dead, your underskirt was showing.

She could talk the hind leg off a donkey.

Dresses to the nines

Fur coat and no knickers

Casting pearls before swine

Are ya mackin gam. Meaning are you having a laugh/you're joking . Got the first penny his mother ģave him meaning someone was a skinflint. Here's me head me arse is following. That means someone needs to straighten there back

I say Gordon Bennett instead of colourful language

Nannagarra

Snazzy.
All the rage.

I still use snazzy!

Yes MaggsMcG that's what my mother got told as a child when asking what was for dinner. My MIL used to say hair pie and windy pudding.

"Do you think I've just fell off a flittin'?" /Do you think I'm stupid
Gob on a stick/won't shut up!
"Couldn't run a bath"/useless bosses!
Going to hell in a hand cart.
Has a face only a mother could love/ahem!
"No better than she ought to be"/ search meimnot sure how this one works think it's an insult!

Referring to how mean his cousin was, my Dad used to say "she'd skin a flea for its hide". My Mum used to say "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking". In a similar vein, when I lived in Glasgow in the 1970s/80s I heard people say "I didnae come up the Clyde in a wheelbarrow".
Mum was full of sayings (many of them definitely not PC nowadays) - "as black as the ace of spades", "a few sandwiches short of a picnic". When she was astounded by something she'd heard she used to say "well I go to the foot of our stairs". If the rain eased off and there was a bit of blue in the sky she'd say that if there was enough blue to make a pair of Dutchman's trousers it would stay dry. On the other hand, if it was " bit black over Bill's mother's" then rain was on its way. As well as her colourful ayings Mum had a large lexicon of superstitions, many of which haunt me to this day.

Fur coat and nae knickers
Were you born in a barn
Well, I'll go t'foot of our stairs
Gordon Bennett
Blood and sand

My Irish mum when asked what's for dinner would say "bees knees, pig's trawheens and doolamauns"....roughly translated as pig's trotters and cow pats I think I still say it to my grandchildren!

She also used to say "it's black over by Bill's mother's " which I thought meant up near my grandma's as my dad's name was Bill!!

MaggsMcG

Asking whats for dinner in my house got the answer
"sh*t with sugar on."

My mother used to say ' A slice of a cat and a rosy rat' when asked what was for dinner .

I’ve heard an old male family member reply, “ going to point Percy at the porcelain.” When asked where he was going to.