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Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 11-01-2024
I was thinking about these earlier & managed to remember some, add some if you think of any.
I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
He's just the bees knees.
He thinks he's just the cat's pyjamas.
She's a box of birds.
When our ship/boat comes in.
More of those chem trails today.
In like Flynn.
She's a Bobby dazzler.
As full as a bull/boot/the family po.
I'm full of beans.
His nibs.
I'll be there in a tick/two ticks.
She's/he's as fit as a fiddle.
So & so said.
A sky as black as the ace of spades/your hat.
He's as cool as a cucumber.
Feeling a bit browned off.
I'm as free from money as a frog is from feathers. (My Gran)
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - alpha111 - 11-01-2024
Well you haven't put the cat among the pigeons, Agatha Christie did that.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Zurdo - 11-01-2024
Mum used to tell me to ''Rattle ya daggs !'' She also used to say I was ''Away with the Fairies.''
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Oh_hunnihunni - 11-01-2024
A stamped self addressed envelope...
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 11-01-2024
(11-01-2024, 03:00 PM)alpha111 Wrote: Well you haven't put the cat among the pigeons, Agatha Christie did that.
Yes, haven't heard that one for ages.
(11-01-2024, 05:07 PM)Zurdo Wrote: Mum used to tell me to ''Rattle ya daggs !'' She also used to say I was ''Away with the Fairies.''
I used to get that 'away with the fairies' all the time!
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Olive - 11-01-2024
There's an expression that my father used which I've never tracked down. "Fonged", meaning obviously drunk, or "a bit fonged", meaning showing the effects of alcohol but not incapable.
Has anyone run across this? My father was born in Petone, Aotearoa, but his parents were Scottish and English.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 12-01-2024
(11-01-2024, 06:39 PM)Olive Wrote: There's an expression that my father used which I've never tracked down. "Fonged", meaning obviously drunk, or "a bit fonged", meaning showing the effects of alcohol but not incapable.
Has anyone run across this? My father was born in Petone, Aotearoa, but his parents were Scottish and English.
Yep, my parents used to say that sometimes too. And another was 'pie eyed' or 'three sheets to the wind' for being drunk - another was 'drunk as forty cats.'
Another one for having just managed something was 'by the skin of your teeth.'
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - harm_less - 12-01-2024
(12-01-2024, 10:34 AM)Lilith7 Wrote:Pissed as a parrot(11-01-2024, 06:39 PM)Olive Wrote: There's an expression that my father used which I've never tracked down. "Fonged", meaning obviously drunk, or "a bit fonged", meaning showing the effects of alcohol but not incapable.
Has anyone run across this? My father was born in Petone, Aotearoa, but his parents were Scottish and English.
Yep, my parents used to say that sometimes too. And another was 'pie eyed' or 'three sheets to the wind' for being drunk - another was 'drunk as forty cats.'
Another one for having just managed something was 'by the skin of your teeth.'
Sober as a judge
Sweating like a rapist
Not here to shag spiders
Off like a herd of turtles (maybe that was just in tramping circles)
Hang up the phone
Collect call
Bullshit artist (liar)
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 12-01-2024
Intelligent design; haven't heard that one for ages. I also heard some plonker say 'praise the lord' the other day, first time I've heard that for years.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 12-01-2024
'A pig in a poke' - buying something without seeing/checking it first.
'Gone west' vanished, disappeared.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 13-01-2024
As thick as two short planks.
Crocodile tears.
White elephant.
Paint the town red.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 13-01-2024
Up shit creek without a paddle.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Zurdo - 13-01-2024
In my area it was As thick as pig shit....and twice as runny.
Goes like a rocket.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 14-01-2024
Mad as a meat axe.
Two bob short of a pound.
He's quids in to win.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - zqwerty - 14-01-2024
This too will pass.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - harm_less - 15-01-2024
The cheque's in the mail
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Oh_hunnihunni - 15-01-2024
...wrong side of the blanket...
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-01-2024
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Black as the ace of spades.
Black as your hat.
It's all double Dutch.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Lilith7 - 15-01-2024
He's/she's not the full quid.
She's/he's two sandwiches short of a picnic.
RE: Things you don't hear so much anymore - Oh_hunnihunni - 15-01-2024
Living in sin