Words / Phrases you don't hear anymore - or do you?

[davieG]

 

Tables are made for glasses not arses

Stop crying or ill give you something to cry about 

You make a great door but a shit window ( usually while your stood in front of the tv)

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute

Close the door, were you born on a barn?

Am I heating all street ( after front door is open more than a minute)

Because I said so !

You've got too much of what the cat licks it's Arse with.

I'll wash your mouth out with soap

[FoxesDeb]

I still say "you make a better door than you do window" if anyone stands in the way of the TV or screen I'm trying to watch

[Sampson]

“Party isn’t a verb”

 

Weird how it’s just accepted as a regular word when used as a vern now, when in the 80s or 90s it was seen as a running joke to use it as a m kind of cartoonish ironic use of the word. 

[Chiltern Fox]

Swivel on that...

[Sampson]

“That’s the badger!”

[Raj]

Leicester win

[Lcfc-1992]

I can’t wait to watch us play

[davieG]

Wait till your father gets home

[davieG]

One boy equals one boy

Two boys equals half a boy

Three boys equals no boy at all. 

[FoxesDeb]

I also still say "it's a bit black over Bill's mother's way", but since we moved to Spain Bill has been replaced by Juan 

[BKLFox]

Get bukket ya dad needs a shite… 

[MPH]

My wife just laughed her head off when I said our son was good at ‘Keepy uppys’

[ramboacdc]

2 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

I still say "you make a better door than you do window" if anyone stands in the way of the TV or screen I'm trying to watch

Brilliant 🤣. Never heard this one. 100£ going to start using it

[Parafox]

"You'd better be home before the 9 horses come"

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Wait till your father gets home

And when he did, I got a belting. I still can't remember why.

[Parafox]

If I did wrong or made a poor decision, my mum would say "that'll be the rock you'll perish on".

 

That phrase could be so easily applied to our board at the moment.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

One boy equals one boy

Two boys equals half a boy

Three boys equals no boy at all. 

That makes no sense.

[davieG]

Just now, Parafox said:

That makes no sense.

It's all about behaviour the more boys there are the more likely they'll get into trouble.

 

We were never allowed to go out in more than 2s so had to plan to meet up and yeah we did get into more trouble.

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

 

Tables are made for glasses not arses

Stop crying or ill give you something to cry about 

You make a great door but a shit window ( usually while your stood in front of the tv)

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute

Close the door, were you born on a barn?

Am I heating all street ( after front door is open more than a minute)

Because I said so !

You've got too much of what the cat licks it's Arse with.

I'll wash your mouth out with soap

I've had all those directed at me by my mum when I was a kid. She was from the Scottish borders and she had many other admonishing phrases from that part of the country.

 

"I'll take my hand off your face if you do that again", for example.

[FoxesDeb]

What about 'up here's for thinking, and down there's for dancing'? That was always popular in my house growing up, and I may have said it to my children once or twice 

[davieG]

Drainpipe trousers

Clobber

Pictures (cinema)

[davieG]

5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I've had all those directed at me by my mum when I was a kid. She was from the Scottish borders and she had many other admonishing phrases from that part of the country.

 

"I'll take my hand off your face if you do that again", for example.

Not heard that one.

[davieG]

Threatened with a  Clip round the ear

[Parafox]

Just now, davieG said:

Not heard that one.

It means a slap. Never happened, but the phrase was enough to stop me in my tracks.

[ramboacdc]

16 minutes ago, Parafox said:

"You'd better be home before the 9 horses come"

My mum used to say this but it was the 9 o clock horses. Never knew what it meant.