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RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 23-06-2024
You'll get the rounds of the kitchen table in a minute.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 23-06-2024
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 27-06-2024
Someone blew the gaff.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 28-06-2024
I'll have your guts for garters.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 30-06-2024
Just made it by the skin of your teeth.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 02-07-2024
He put the wind up them.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 03-07-2024
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 03-07-2024
(03-07-2024, 01:53 PM)zqwerty Wrote: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
Oh I remember that!
And also how now, brown cow.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 03-07-2024
It's from "My Fair Lady" I think.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 03-07-2024
(03-07-2024, 04:08 PM)zqwerty Wrote: It's from "My Fair Lady" I think.
That's probably right - I remember mum telling me she'd been taught to say both of those to get the 'right' pronounciation, so she recognised them when she came across them in My Fair Lady, or whatever the original was.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 07-07-2024
They're a bit toffee nosed.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - king1 - 08-07-2024
my dad used to use the phrase "elbow grease" with monotonous frequency
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 08-07-2024
That reminds me of another one - "put your back into it!" Haven't heard that for years.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - king1 - 08-07-2024
(08-07-2024, 05:00 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: That reminds me of another one - "put your back into it!" Haven't heard that for years.
yep, he used that a lot too... usually when trying to engage a young me in some hard labour in the garden
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-07-2024
It was a put up job.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 16-07-2024
Come to a sticky end.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 16-07-2024
You'll bust a gut if you're not careful.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Khalin - 02-08-2024
1. "The whole kit and caboodle"
2. "In a jiffy"
3. "That’s the way the cookie crumbles"
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 04-08-2024
riding the gravy train
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 04-08-2024
He's got his feet under the table.