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

[davieG]

 

 

We had phases where retorts were made like - Take a long walk off a shorts pier

 

One I remember was a sort of jokey one

How dare you insinuate such diabolical nonsence

From a microscopic speck of dust such as yourself.

Who is too young to understand my meaning

Finishing with

Woo What rhetorical elegance.

[Parafox]

Just now, ramboacdc said:

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

It is 9 o'clockhorses.

 

Apparently it's a reference to the days when there were outdoor toilets and the last collection of human and household waste was at 9pm by horse drawn carts.

 

a warning is based on a Victorian era Leicester folk tale parents used to get children into bed and asleep by 9pm. Before drainage and waste disposal, night soil men came into the city to collect waste to use as manure on farmland – but a local bye-law stated they couldn’t come into town until after 9pm. The tale warned that children wandering the streets after 9pm would be taken away by the horses to work as labourers!

[Chiltern Fox]

We're going down the precinct...

[cropstonfox]

"You'll laugh on the other side of your face in a minute"

Edited 28 March by cropstonfox

[Spudulike]

She looked at me gone out.

[worthosoriginals]

Looking back at the assaults and threats we should have replied at them.....you do that and il get the coppers on you for assault and harassment.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Shanks' pony.

Ockey-cokey man.

Diddikies.

Gay (meaning joyful)

Lesbian (meaning someone from the island of Lesbos).

 

Interestingly, when I typed Lesbos, my autocorrect suggested Lesbo's

 

Edited 29 March by Trav Le Bleu

[jonthefox]

It's like Blackpool illuminations up there. 

[Raj]

[Aus Fox]

18 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

I always go with you might be a pain, but you’re not a window…

This also might be the PG version of it.

[Torquay Gunner]

Strike a light, and I’ll go to the foot of our stairs. Both very similar idioms.

[Free Falling Foxes]

I can hear the Okey van.

(Ice cream van playing its chiming music)

 

As children I remember us all playing in the street and running as fast as we could to our homes to ask our Mam (not Mum), if I could have an okey.

'Quick, quick Mam, before it goes'

 

Now just go to the freezer. Not the same though. 

[Suzie the Fox]

If i ask my mum to do something for me (as in she is making coffee and i ask her to make me one.) Then ask if she can bring it into me as i'm at my pc working. Her usual reply is ..  

 

'If you get me a bucket of sand, i'll even sing you the desert song'

 

To this day i have no clue where its from or what it means

 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Looking forward to the game today

[davieG]

39 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Looking forward to the game today

Coupled with 

 

When do the tickets for the play-off final go on sale?

[OntarioFox]

'Dick Turpin wore a mask'

 

Actually never mind, I say that multiple times every matchday, whether it's buying a drink or remembering I paid actual real life money to watch Leicester play. 

 

[foxile5]

'It's black over Bill's mother's' meaning dark clouds/stormy weather is on the horizon.

 

Such is the hyper-sensitive nature of the world that when I last used this there was a gasp and a puzzled reasoning about it being racist. 

[HighPeakFox]

My late mother's favourite saying was 'the game's not worth the candle'.

[Parafox]

10 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Shanks' pony.

Ockey-cokey man.

Diddikies.

Gay (meaning joyful)

Lesbian (meaning someone from the island of Lesbos).

 

Interestingly, when I typed Lesbos, my autocorrect suggested Lesbo's

 

Be interesting to see your search history. 

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, Suzie the Fox said:

If i ask my mum to do something for me (as in she is making coffee and i ask her to make me one.) Then ask if she can bring it into me as i'm at my pc working. Her usual reply is ..  

 

'If you get me a bucket of sand, i'll even sing you the desert song'

 

To this day i have no clue where its from or what it means

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desert_Song_(1953_film)

 

A long winded and generally dull musical from the early 50's.

 

Or maybe the Sand Dance:

 

Wilson, Keppel and Betty - Wikipedia

 

 

Edited 29 March by Parafox

[ajthefox]

My grandma used to say 'Well, blow me'. Always gave me and my sister a giggle.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, ajthefox said:

My grandma used to say 'Well, blow me'. Always gave me and my sister a giggle.

Be funnier if it was your grandad...

[davieG]

Are you talking to me?

I'd rather chew a brick than talk to you!

[Foxdiamond]

That will cost a few bob

[foxfanazer]

What's for dinner mum?

 

"Shit and sugar"