"Old fashioned" expressions that young people have never heard.

Banting
My Nan used to say ‘are you banting?’ Meaning on a diet.I think it was a Dr Banting who recommended caution about a fatty diet, a very long time ago, possibly 100 years.

I’ll swing for you
I’ll skin you alive

Bread and dripping - was asked by granddaughter what dripping was.

Putting my glad-rags on - getting dressed up to go out.

Need my big coat - when it's wintery

Putting the big light on

Brewing up,

Any road up - a term used to start a sentence or move on to a different subject

Get away with you - meaning you can't believe it.

Goodness me.

Like a dose of salts - used this naturally in a thread earlier, meaning I'd do something quickly

Shall I be mother? - when pouring tea

Pumps - trainers now for PE.

Flannel - now a face cloth

Pinny - for apron

Penny for your thoughts

Blimey! - I use it still.

Oh, and I said in conversation recently " Put the willies up you" meaning to frighten.
The friends I was with did have a little titter. That's another one you don't hear..titter.

Ooh, titter ye not!

Disco, L.P, record player, radiogram

Pantry, larder, coalhole.
D you think I came up in a banana boat?

I'll get you on the blower.
Gordon Bennett.

Watching the box.

Putting your glad rags on.
Cutting a rug.

Getting a clip round the ear
Setting your stall out

Don't pick your nose or your head will cave in.
Laying your cards on the table.

Its like the black hole of Calcutta in here,,,,put the light on.
He's can't keep still in one place he's like one of the wandering jews.

Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet.

TanaMa

My father, when spotting girls/women dressed in too short/too tight clothes, always said 'the sights you see when you haven't got your gun'!! Probably wouldn't be allowed today!!??

In my twenties , in the 1970s , a Scottish friend of mine (Glaswegian actually) , who was female, introduced me to this phrase so I had always assumed that it was Scottish in origin. She used it generally of anyone or anything of odd appearance. We also went out dancing together "on the pull" and then it wasn't used only of unappealing women.........
Possibly it was handed down by military men in her extended family.......

That's not a skirt, its a fanny pelmet.

Emerald888

More meat on a butchers apron
As much use as an ashtray on a motor bike
Gordon Bennet!
Getting your nose bag on

More meat on a butcher's pencil........

StTrinians

"As tight as a crab's a**e." (For a parsimonious individual)
"She looked like death warmed up."
(For a young lady wearing overly pale/ green tinged face foundation...she looked green...) RAF sayings that I no longer hear. "He had had chips",.. "he kicked the bucket", or " he went for a Burton", and " he bought the farm". (For someone shot down.)
"It was a piece of cake" (Easy peezy...)

As tight as a duck's re........ and that's watertight.........

That's duck's posterior. I got the asterisks wrong.

MissAdventure

Well, this won't get the baby a new bonnet.

won't get the baby bathed.......

I really wonder where these sayings originated, and how they vary by region/family.

MissAdventure

That's not a skirt, its a fanny pelmet.

😂😂😂

"Fanny pelmet"

All fur coat and no knickers
Fanny's dead (underskirt showing)

I've only ever heard 'I beg your pardon'? Then I've only ever heard it used when someone has said something they shouldn't 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣.

If you don't hear someone it's just 'pardon'.

Leopard79

I've only ever heard 'I beg your pardon'? Then I've only ever heard it used when someone has said something they shouldn't 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣.

If you don't hear someone it's just 'pardon'.

My 3-year-old GD shouts "I beg your pardon". I think she's heard her mother say it