Things you don't hear so much anymore

[Lilith7]

You'll get the rounds of the kitchen table in a minute.

[zqwerty]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.

[Lilith7]

Someone blew the gaff.

[Lilith7]

I'll have your guts for garters.

[Lilith7]

Just made it by the skin of your teeth.

[Lilith7]

He put the wind up them.

[zqwerty]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

[Lilith7]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

Oh I remember that!

And also how now, brown cow.

[zqwerty]

It's from "My Fair Lady" I think.

[Lilith7]

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.

[Lilith7]

They're a bit toffee nosed.

[king1]

my dad used to use the phrase "elbow grease" with monotonous frequency

[Lilith7]

That reminds me of another one - "put your back into it!" Haven't heard that for years.

[king1]

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

[Lilith7]

It was a put up job.

[zqwerty]

Come to a sticky end.

[Lilith7]

You'll bust a gut if you're not careful.

[Khalin]

1. "The whole kit and caboodle"
2. "In a jiffy"
3. "That’s the way the cookie crumbles"

[zqwerty]

riding the gravy train

[Lilith7]

He's got his feet under the table.