Back in t'day

[Odds]

These expressions are just stuck in the past, and soon they will be completely foreign to younger generations.

1. "The bee's knees"
2. "Now you're cooking with gas"
3. "No comments from the peanut gallery"
4. "Mind your 'P's and 'Q's"
5. "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"
6. "Don't get your knickers in a twist"
7. "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire"
8. "You make a better door than a window"

 

[Odds]

But some slang sticks around, and becomes so established in our day-to-day language that it survives from one generation to the next. Fashionable, impressive, or just generally excellent things have been “cool,” for instance, since the 1930s.

The 1970s is no exception, with some of its slangiest and quirkiest turns of phrase still in use today.

1. BANGED UP
2. EYE-CANDY
3. FIRST WORLD PROBLEM
4. THE FULL MONTY
5. GOTCHA
6. GUILT TRIP
7. HEADBANGER
8. HURT LOCKER
9. OFF-GRID
10. OUT-THERE
11. PAGE-TURNER
12. SHROOMS
13. SKEEVY
14. SPIT-TAKE
15. UNCANNY VALLEY

 

[blup]

Let’s hope this thread breaks the ice and doesn’t end up as a wild goose chase or leave you in a pickle though doubtless some would say good riddance.

 

[Odds]

Let’s hope this thread breaks the ice and doesn’t end up as a wild goose chase or leave you in a pickle though doubtless some would say good riddance....

I'd say they're...

 

[Elsa TLC]

My Language at the School hasn't got me sacked yet
I do need to be careful. I do get some puzzled looks from the foreign teachers.

I caught my finger while fixing a door handle. I said to Ruth. (Most probably the wrong teacher to say it to).... Its all done ..... and I got a black man's pinch.

Whoops

"I shouldn't have said that"....​

She takes a look

"Thats a blood blister Bod"
"Is that the new name for it?"​

Thats apparently the real name for it.




Never anything in it .... its just what I and many others have called it.

 

[Mottie]

"What’s for dinner mum"
"Shìt with sugar"
Or was that just my family?

 

[Elsa TLC]

"What’s for dinner mum"
"Shìt with sugar"
Or was that just my family?

Just your family.

 

[Mottie]

Just Googled it. It was a thing apparently.

 

[noseall]

"What’s for dinner mum"
"Shìt with sugar"
Or was that just my family?

Oop ere in Staffs too.

 

[Elsa TLC]

My cousin when he was about 5

''Mum I want a jam sandwich

I want a jam sandwich
I want a jam sandwich
I want a jam sandwich''​

His mum said ''you can have bread and butter and lump it''

He opened his sandwich and cried

''Wheres my lumpit''
​

He's no longer with us. He died at 31 never woke up after his wedding night.​

 

[Elsa TLC]

Just Googled it. It was a thing apparently.

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You must have Northern blood!

All be it, this would have been something my mum would have said.

She was Suff London

 

[Mottie]

Another one:
When my sister started going out with boys, as she was going out of the door on a date, my mum and/or dad would always say "Keep your hand on your ha'penny"!

Another version as she got older was "If you can’t be good, be careful".

 

[SPLINE]

'Don't spoil the ship for ha'porth of tar' and 'daft ha'porth'.

 

[blup]

A Geordie introduced me to the phrase “He/she is not as green as cabbage looking”