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

[Jonno]

crud

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Sticks out like dog's balls
Bangs like a dunny door in a storm
Carrying on like a pork chop

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

In the 70's,the phrase "chinny reckon" meaning to scratch ones pretend beard when you suspect one of your chums of bullshitting

 

[Tricky Dicky]

My dad (who was born in Newcastle on Tyne) was very fond of saying, as he disappeared down to the pub: "Ah'm gannin' doon the bourn, to cop loggerheeds". He claimed it was an old saying of his grandad's.

Not a phrase I've ever heard anyone else say. "Loggerheeds", incidentally, are butterflies. And I've come across native geordie speakers who've never heard the word. But it appears in this list of old phrases found in Hetton-le-Hole:-

List Geordie

Not that folk from Hetton-le-Hole are geordies, though.

Hetton-le-Hole sounds like a northern past-time.

 

[Garage_Doors]

five knuckle shuffle.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Don't you come the old soldier with me.

 

[R. Slicker]

Off like a long dog.

It's looking a bit dark over Will's mothers.

 

[Gwylan]

Hetton-le-Hole sounds like a northern past-time.

It's about two miles from where my mother lives - quite a pleasant little town.
Quick trivia question: what Albion player of the 70s was born there?

My favourite old-fashioned phrase (and one that I still use) is "as black as Newgate's knocker"

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

In the 70's,the phrase "chinny reckon" meaning to scratch ones pretend beard when you suspect one of your chums of bullshitting

Good one. Didn't this then turn into ''yeah, Jimmy Hill'' (said whilst also pawing imaginary beard)

 

[Fef]

"Thou art a whey-faced pulcroon". Or is that a bit too old?

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

F**** a duck sideways!
That's the bunny!
Cruisin for a bruisin (still use that)
There be dragons!
Berk from Berkhamstead
Is 'dubry' still common there ? I think I am the only person who uses and understands it in the whole of Turkey!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

In the 70's,the phrase "chinny reckon" meaning to scratch ones pretend beard when you suspect one of your chums of bullshitting

Berfore that it was 'itchy beard!'

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

You're mum's one!
so's your face!

 

[elwheelio]

We used to say 'chinny reckon' when I was at school in the 80s.

I remember my grandpa saying 'love a duck'.

 

[Simster]

Another vote for "chinny reckon".

And "flid", as a derogatory expression.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Another vote for "chinny reckon".

And "flid", as a derogatory expression.

Accompanied by the tongue bunched in front of your lower front teeth and attempting to speak....soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo politically not correct!

You'll be wanting spazz and spazzer back next!!!

 

[elwheelio]

At school we used to use the term 'bumnose'. I don't think this ever caught on outside of our school where we had a teacher whose nose was like a bum.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

He's having a wobbly!
Don't get your knickers in a twist!

 

[nwgull]

Joeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!!! (whilst slapping back of hand and and pressing tongue in front of bottom teeth)

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

He deserves to be horsewhipped on the steps of his club to within an inch of his life.

It´s very black over Bill´s mothers.