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Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Words and expressions you don't hear anymore.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Does anyone still have a chinwag?

And thanks to most people having blinds instead of nets..there are very few curtain twitchers around nowadays.

Date: Dec 28 1:49 PM, 2022

Syl wrote:
When was the last time you heard anyone say the word 'Guffaw'?

I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually say it.

As far as expressions go, and not sure if it was just a London thing - 'I'll give you <insert whatever extravagant thing it was you asked for>'... e.g. 'Mum, can we have steak for dinner tonight?' Mum: 'I'll give you steak' (meaning 'no way you little sod').

Date: Dec 28 2:04 PM, 2022

Syl wrote:
Does anyone still have a chinwag?

No, and no knee-tremblers any more

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Does anyone still have a chinwag?

No, and no knee-tremblers any more

Hard cheese...as they used to say.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

I doubt anyone still refers to a female having nice threepennies?

Amazingly, the threepenny bit was withdrawn from circulation over half a century ago.

Magica · Go Outside

We still say chinwag down here, also lots of cockney rhyming slang. We use it alot.
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Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Magica wrote:
We still say chinwag down here, also lots of cockney rhyming slang. We use it alot.

Threepennies was originally cockney rhyming slang I think, 'Apples and pears'...is the only other one that springs to mind.

Magica · Go Outside

Well there's

Current bun ......Sun, said lots by old Londoners

Apple n pears .....stairs, still used

Whistle and flute. ..... Suit. Just say whistle now

Syrup and fig ........ Wig, just say syrup now

And so on lol. My kids or grandkids don't know it,.Just my generation. We were brought up with it. Another bit of old London killed off.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Magica wrote:
Well there's

Current bun ......Sun, said lots by old Londoners

Apple n pears .....stairs, still used

Whistle and flute. ..... Suit. Just say whistle now

Syrup and fig ........ Wig, just say syrup now

And so on lol. My kids or grandkids don't know it,.Just my generation. We were brought up with it. Another bit of old London killed off.

Oh yeah, I did know them Mags ...my OH says things like, 'is he wearing a syrup? and he is from Manchester.

Date: Dec 30 2:09 PM, 2022

rhyming slang... cobblers... and not so much a word or saying but something people don't do any more is take their shoes in to have them re-soled or heeled, they just buy new shoes, alas and farewell to cobblers shops all round the country.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Anonymous wrote:
rhyming slang... cobblers... and not so much a word or saying but something people don't do any more is take their shoes in to have them re-soled or heeled, they just buy new shoes, alas and farewell to cobblers shops all round the country.

We have a cobblers in our town centre, he has been there for 40 years that I know of. But I bet you are right, they are a dying breed.

Magica · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Magica wrote:
Well there's

Current bun ......Sun, said lots by old Londoners

Apple n pears .....stairs, still used

Whistle and flute. ..... Suit. Just say whistle now

Syrup and fig ........ Wig, just say syrup now

And so on lol. My kids or grandkids don't know it,.Just my generation. We were brought up with it. Another bit of old London killed off.

Oh yeah, I did know them Mags ...my OH says things like, 'is he wearing a syrup? and he is from Manchester.

Exactly Syl, comes from our generation.

Digger · Admin

Corned beef legs and fireside tartan

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Digger wrote:
Corned beef legs and fireside tartan

My sister used to hog the coal fire when we were growing up...the price she paid, was mottled corn beef legs.

Served her right.

Date: Dec 31 2:48 PM, 2022

Do people still suffer from chilblains, lumbago or goitre?

Date: Dec 31 3:42 PM, 2022

Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
Corned beef legs and fireside tartan
My sister used to hog the coal fire when we were growing up...the price she paid, was mottled corn beef legs.
Served her right.

What about this?

Not an expression as such but always creases me up and makes me sad at the same time because it was part of my childhood and the show will never be repeated due to the virtue signallers and terminally offended wokes.

Phil.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
Corned beef legs and fireside tartan
My sister used to hog the coal fire when we were growing up...the price she paid, was mottled corn beef legs.
Served her right.

What about this?
Not an expression as such but always creases me up and makes me sad at the same time because it was part of my childhood and the show will never be repeated due to the virtue signallers and terminally offended wokes.
Phil.

Remember the Black and White minstrels?

Love thy neighbour.

Alf Garnett.

Till death us do part.

Mrs Slokems Pussy.

Queer as folk.....though that one would probably still scrape through nowadays.

Magica · Go Outside

Are you being served

All great shows, sadly cancelled now 😣

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Magica wrote:
Are you being served

All great shows, sadly cancelled now 😣

Most of the people who starred in these shows are dead.

There were some good shows back then, cutting edge stuff like bouquet of barbed wire, Play for today, some good cop series too.