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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

'Your slip is showing'

A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '

'just going to powder my nose '

A phrase women used to say when they were going to the loo '

Can anyone remember any other now defunct polite phraseology???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Edna you're such a Dollybird....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Edna you're such a Dollybird.... "

It is all part of my aura as an endangered species my dear. I chose my username with extreme care to reflect the kinda weirdo I am dearest Mrs PAXO lol

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

I still use "I'm going to powder my nose" and the expression the powder room. It depends on the company, but it's an unobtrusive way to say I'm off for a piss!

One of my friends says gosh and golly. She retrained herself when she realised how often she was swearing and didn't like it.

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By *em4ejacWoman
over a year ago

Cougarville

When we asked an adult where they were going the would say " Going to see a man about a dog "

or " A policeman wouldn't ask you that"

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By *eerobCouple
over a year ago

solihull

Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone"

Another one was.......

'she's walking out with so n so'

Meaning they were dating!

I love the old phrases hehe

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone

Another one was.......

'she's walking out with so n so'

Meaning they were dating!

I love the old phrases hehe "

Courting was the one I used to hear - still occasionally do!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone

Another one was.......

'she's walking out with so n so'

Meaning they were dating!

I love the old phrases hehe "

Are you courting?

What? No Nanna, I'm not.

When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.

I miss my Nanna.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone

Another one was.......

'she's walking out with so n so'

Meaning they were dating!

I love the old phrases hehe

Are you courting?

What? No Nanna, I'm not.

When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.

I miss my Nanna. "

Hahahahahaha

BRILLIANT

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Are you 'wooing'

Going out with someone

Another one was.......

'she's walking out with so n so'

Meaning they were dating!

I love the old phrases hehe

Are you courting?

What? No Nanna, I'm not.

When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.

I miss my Nanna. "

When I came out my aunt said ' oh you probably got a touch of flu m feeling a bit under the weather - it'll pass '

Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Please and thank you are ones I rarely hear nowadays or am I just asking too much

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whoa betide, or just about anything Shakespear wrote lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'stop showing off'.... There is a direct link between this not being said to kids, and them acting like complete brats!

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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago

Rockford

I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot". "

Skedaddle is not just American, got used a lot during my Yorkshire childhood.

I was thinking recently that there are a few words that I grew up thinking everyone knew but it turns out are not only dialect but very local dialect.

Like nesh, snicket and chomping (chomping is not anything to do with eating or teeth).

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme


"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot". "

What on earth does "caddywampus" mean?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Another saying!

' you would argue the hind leg off a donkey '

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"'Your slip is showing'

A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '

.........."

I've not heard it used in that context.

My recollection is that it dates from the time more women made their own clothes, the skirts often weren't lined and so a slip or petticoat was the norm.

I've also heard 'it's raining in Paris' to mean the same thing.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Going to spend a penny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"'Your slip is showing'

A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '

'just going to powder my nose '

A phrase women used to say when they were going to the loo '

Can anyone remember any other now defunct polite phraseology??? "

i hear women in pubs/clubs say they're off to powder their nose fairly often

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still use the expression 'wooing', I just think it sounds nice.

'Sling yer 'ook!'

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Im off to splash my cliggs

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham


"Im off to splash my cliggs"

Cloggs *

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By *ixson-BallsMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

i'll go to the foot of our stairs!...

to mean an show of exasperation..i think lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Im off to splash my cliggs

Cloggs *"

'I'm just popping off to point Percy at the porcelain'

(male equivalent of powder my nose)

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush


"Going to spend a penny"

I wonder if that's why they call it a tuppence, seeing as ladies always go in twos.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

owt ut way! av pots to side and clinkers to riddle. and shes no better than she should be, fur coat and no nickers that one. she never went short of chewing gum. an ill tell yer summat else an all, he never married either, summat wrong wi im.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

Would not say powder my nose these days people would think we were off to snort stuff !

will have to think of some old sayings..

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Freshen up" would seem to do the job nicely.

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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago

Rockford


"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot".

What on earth does "caddywampus" mean? "

scrooked...askew

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sad at all that it's not around any more: four-eyes for people who wear glasses

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sad at all that it's not around any more: four-eyes for people who wear glasses "
Ist thee a goggle ed then? i wouldnt worry like, never seen a dunce wearin em!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When vistin the toilet me nan would say she was just goin to turn her bike round and me grandad would say he was off for a tommy tit

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