Old sayings from the past.

[cabbyjohn]

I bumped into an old friend today who I haven't seen for many years. we got chatting and he told me that he had been having it fairly rough lately. I suggested that we go for a drink and he replied to me that he hadn't even got a "Latch lifter" In the old days this was usually meant to be the price of a pint or a half that would get a person into the pub, where hopefully he could borrow a few bob for a pint or two.

This set me off thinking of old long forgotten phrases that used to be everyday expressions.

Another one that springs to mind is when speaking of a disreputable person it used to be said, "He would steal the pennies off a dead mans eyes".

Can anybody else recall any old expressions that we used many years ago, but rarely hear nowadays?

[southampton]

"well I will go to the foot of our stairs" was one old saying, but what it meant I never did work out.

[elainegregory]

Who on earth was "b****y nora"
Many a mickle makes a muckle
he"ll be long dead
ne'er cast a clout till may is out

[cabbyjohn]

"If you fall and break your leg, don't come running to me"

[jackaitch]

One for the road!!!!!!

[elainegregory]

Hair of the dog
you never know what youv got till youv lost it
cant teach an old dog new tricks
no fool like an old fool
never put off tomorrow what you can do today

[jonesg]

I remember Ena Sharples saying "theres none so queer as folk".

[oldbill]

better old mans wife than a young mans slave

[oldbill]

not the sharpest tool in the shed

[jackaitch]

CHESTER,S BEER....there is a baby in every pint!!

[cabbyjohn]

Nov 20, 2011 15:03:21 GMT -1 jackaitch said:

CHESTER,S BEER....there is a baby in every pint!!

My first regular pint of choice used to be Chesters bitter from the Royal Oak in Droylsden. They used to call it Loony soup.