Phrases once common you rarely hear today

[cpa]

Your not sugar na salt , you wont melt ... if I was complaining about going out in the rain .
Ill give you something to cry about.
Were you born in a barn.
Blackpool illuminations .

 

[I'm With Stupid]

"You look like a paraffin lamp."

"Jump in my grave as quick?"

"I'll give you a bunch of five."

"Bike? I'll bike you!"

 

[city2]

Sure as eggs are eggs

 

[Bettys Bell]

Followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding. One from my childhood.

 

[Treggy]

he's a friend of Dorothy
Shit with sugar on
Followed a muck cart thought it was a wedding
Cos Y's Not Z

 

[city2]

e by gum not sure what that ment

 

[Oxhey foxy]

Don’t come running to me with a broken leg

I’m going to see a man about a dog

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

It doesn't look much but it will fill a pram.

Q.E.D.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

AS my dad would say if was in the way of the telly " you make a better door than a window "

 

[maccieblue]

And thats the final whistle, its a victory for Manchester united

now "its 5 minutes after the final whistle and its a penalty to united "

 

[r.soleofsalford]

My dad to me when I was going out.

“If you’re not in bed by 10.30 come home”

“Make sure you get off the bus at Cross Lane”

“That woman’s stood well forward in that blouse”

Different times

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Typical City

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I headed the lace

Are you a head-the-ball

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

A days rain in a fortnight now, will do more good than a week’s will in a month further on.

 

[BlueNomad]

Or if a light's left on, "It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here"

Still use it in my house…and I live in America!!

Another couple…

“Made enough food to feed the Pakistani Army” and if you didn’t eat enough of your dinner…

“Kids are starving in Biafra” or “There’s kids who take your left arm off for that in Biafra”

“About as useful as pork pie at a Jewish wedding!”

 

[remember arthur mann]

 

[chris63]

Eat your crust, it will put hairs on yer chest.

Your as strong as a fortnight and that's to week.

 

[Gabriel]

‘How’s about that then?’ for some reason…

 

[Vienna_70]

AS my dad would say if was in the way of the telly " you make a better door than a window "

Yep.

My Mum regularly used that one.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Put wood in t'hole

In other words. Shut the door.