Words from a past generation

crikey, hoo-ha, blimey

DH says vacation

I have a couple oft used sentences:
You will be laughing the other side of your face in a minute
And
That’ll wipe the smile of your face.
( obviously it was a crime to be cheerful back in the day?!)

Ohhps I should have said ‘Obvs ‘ which is the modern term for obviously ( obviously ??)

My daughter (early 30’s) still says blimey!

Blimey O’Riley (Reilly?)

Frocks for dresses
Stove for cooker
Pictures for cinema
Maiden/clothes horse for airer
and a host of old fashioned sayings.

cripes
jolly good
great fun
smashing
sooper -dooper
trendy
in with the in crowd

Hells bells and buckets of blood

Blimey is one I use often.
Good Lord.
Spiffing---in answer to an elderly neighbour.
Dear me.

It'll either rain or go dark before morning.

Disco, LP, and "going to the pictures" is slowly fading away, I think.

Wireless for the radio

My grandsons thought it strange that their mum said "lets see what's on the box" when she put the tv on.
They didn't know why she said it, but I suppose she got it from me.

I used the expression that everything would be "hunky dory" to my two eldest grandsons and they just fell about laughing and now cheekily ask me if everything will be "hunky dory" with such a twinkle in their eyes.

Railway station. I don’t say train station

The hit parade (I don’t still say that as I don’t take an interest in “the charts”)

Gosh
Blimey
It’s being so cheerful keeps them going ( said of gloomy people.)
It’ll see us out ( said with an air of smugness.)

Hold onto your hat!
Hold your horses
Home James and don’t spare the horses

Chum as in friend.
Crumbs
Gosh
Golly
Courting
Blast it

Toodle Pip for goodbye!!!

Mangelwurzle for turnips!!! lol

Tickety Boo for Ok.

Crikey, oops/oopsie, frock, telephone, loo, oh my goodnes, spiffing.

"It's being so cheerful as keeps me going" used to be said by Mona Lott, in ITMA.

'Oh my giddy aunt' and 'Oh my goodness!' and 'Oh, for goodness sake!' and 'Blimey' all frequently said by me.

Pinny for apron (does anyone but me still wear them?)
Spuds for potatoes (you don't hear it in NZ)
Throstle for Thrush
Britches
'stop faffing about'
And I once nearly caused a mass evacuation when, instead of saying I wanted to plug in a heater, I told the office manager, 'I'm trying to start the fire.'
I still call a heater, a fire.

When the sun started to go down, my dad always said it was getting dumpsy

My grandpa always referred to us girls as little maids, my husband still refers to the cinema as the Picture Palace, which my children find hysterically funny