We used to say:

I think it was something to do with the football pools Flickety, which I used to do every week , there was no lottery then, it was a pools win we wanted.

Mum, can I have so and so?
You'll have to wait till I come up on the coupon!

That meant no.

Child "I want ......"

Mother "I want never gets Please May I Have!"

Can remember my mum telling me that wisewoman
I tell DGS the same.

Going to the hop
Stepping out
Going steady
She's going with a Ted (teddy boy)

Horace Bactchelor at K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M

Oh la sir, you quite put a maiden to the blush!

Beetle squashers, Drapes and drainpipes.

Brothel creepers.

Grotty!

penny for the guy
are you coming out to play?
wage packet
scullery
get my film developed
whitestone the steps
can you lend me a cup of sugar/milk?

Bobby sox; bobby soxers.

Teenage Separates - I sold them in John Lewis's.

When I go out to tea
I know what to take
First a piece of bread and butter
Then a piece of cake

Bob 'a Job week

Darning socks

He has a DA. (Duck's arse hairstyle).
Friday night is Amami wave set night.
He is a sagger maker's bottom knocker (occupation on What's My Line?).

'they're livin' over the brush' (said behind your hand in a whisper as you watch the scandalous unmarried couple pass by)

she's no better than she ought to be

Charlie's dead ( another one for slip showing..never knew who charlie was!)

ummlilia" Living without benefit of clergy" was an alternative to that.

Here, either party to a 'living in sin' relationship was deemed to be a 'bidey-in'.

At the housing warming party for my DD and her partner someone* sang

Bless this house Oh Lord we pray
Make it safe by night and day
Bless the people here within
Keep them safe as they live in sin.

*Actually it was me

We used to say did you hear about the girl with the beehive hairdo who died because there were insects nesting and living in her hair? Some girls never washed their hair, and kept the beehive stiff with sugar water...

She's living over the brush with her fancy man and they're getting all their furniture on the never never.
Live now pay later.

My grandmother described someone as a 'Champagne Charlie'. I loved that, when I asked for an explanation. Except I didn't realise until later that she was referring to my father... One day I heard her discussing someone with my mother as being 'all fur coat and no knickers'. I told my mother later that Grandma was wrong, I had never seen Mrs. in a fur coat. I was banned from the kitchen when Grandma was staying after that for quite some years.

If our flies were undone we were told we "had egg on our chin"

"What's that got to do with the price of fish"