Old Sayings and Modern Counterparts

[KGarrad]

One came up in the pub tonight:

It's 7:30 and not a child in the house bathed!

The stag was definitely on the 1 punt coin!

[Sinann]

One came up in the pub tonight:

It's 7:30 and not a child in the house bathed!

I still say that, although I say washed not bathed.

'Stop the lights' for stop quickly
and 'got a fifty' for getting stood up on a date.

[Roobarb]

My grandad used to tell me that my hair was straight as a yard of pump water. Or rather he probably said 'watter'! 

[Jed59]

It's 7.30 and not a pot washed!
Up the wooden hill to bed(fordshire)    Or ,  when we were  reluctant to go to bed and patience was exhausted  " Gerrup  them  dancers  NOW! (Dancers = Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair...stairs)

What can you do with a child in your arms and its father  in jail?   when   faced with an insoluble problem.

[Nettie]

One came up in the pub tonight:

It's 7:30 and not a child in the house bathed!

I still say that, although I say washed not bathed.

Same here. Just the time of day changed.

[mare]

 How about....Pot calling kettle black....modern equivalent....Pot noodle calling Kettle chips junk 
Carol

Fits the title perfectly, Carol 

re spending a penny, I remember reading a quip when the euro was introduced, that you no longer spend a penny but euro nate 

[Nettie]

  euro nate 

[andrewalston]

Of course in greek the word pronounced "euro" does actually mean "I micturate".

Refers to the whole economy there.

[Gillg]

Lancashire "nobbut" (nought but = only)  as in "She's nobbut a lass" = "She's only a little girl".

Not sure that we ever said "There's trouble at t'mill".  It sounds more like a comical take-off of a northern accent, though of course we heard that "t" in front of lots of words all the time instead of "the". 

"Yes" & "no" were frequently replaced by "yeah" and "nay" and older folk said "thee" and "tha'"(thou or thy).  "Owt" and "nowt" for "something" and "nothing".

Astonishment on the part of my small nephew and me (both Lancastrians) when my Londoner husband told him to "stop grizzling" - apparently it meant to stop making a fuss and crying unnecessarily.  My Dad would have said "I'll give you something to cry for" in those far off pre-PC times.