Phrases or sayings that are no more or should make a comeback.

[Danny-Boy]

when things got broke in our house as kids my mum would through them out saying they were "Duff" !!

Pure WW2; my Dad's war diary which he kept up as a POW in Italy and Germany strictly against all the regs, was full of "duff" references, usually to tins of food which had gone off in transit.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Gordon bennett!! Started off being popular in "steptoe and Son" from Harold's character...

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Pure WW2; my Dad's war diary which he kept up as a POW in Italy and Germany strictly against all the regs, was full of "duff" references, usually to tins of food which had gone off in transit.

I would have said "Duff" is still very much in common usage. If nothing else it's in every Simpsons episode.

 

[backson]

You don't hear Pardon my French very much. My mum would say it on the rare occasion that she would utter a swear word; I still remember the stern looks when I said that it didn't sound very French to me.

 

[burstead]

I thought it was 'hank', with the 'h' dropped in Sussex-slangy fashion.... like 'andsome' ferinstance.
I started to wonder if it was just something I'd heard from one group of people who'd made it up.... but perhaps it actually is that localized to only be known within a few miles of the Sussex coast.

yeah, it was 'hank' with a silent H, well ank

 

[Gwylan]

At the time tried to start a campaign for some more traditional and colourful insults for use at games - poltroon, blackguard, rapscallion, hobbledy hoys and n'er do well's (Palarse definitely), spawny eyed wassock and nincompoop spring to mind.

I've used virtually all those words (apart from spawny-eyed) at one time or another. I use hobbledy hoy and ne'er-do-well very frequently.

I thought it was 'hank', with the 'h' dropped in Sussex-slangy fashion.... like 'andsome' ferinstance.
I started to wonder if it was just something I'd heard from one group of people who'd made it up.... but perhaps it actually is that localized to only be known within a few miles of the Sussex coast.

I remember that from my youth and still use it occasionally. I've never known anyone from outside Brighton admit to knowing it.