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dantheman123 | 18:43 Fri 21st Apr 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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What words or phrases have dropped from common use in the last few years?
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'Please' and 'thank you'.


"Yes, I did see the incident and the ref was quite right to book/send off my player..."

After you, Excuse me, I beg your Pardon, Thank you,


I'm Sorry, Please, my god I could go on all day,why are we so rude now?

horseless carriage. But wireless has returned after a long gap.
I'm terribly sorry we don't have that item in stock at present. However if you would like to give me your name and telephone number I'll do my best to get one in by Friday for you and I'll give you a call as soon as it arrives.
That is a classic Diamond,so long ago i had forgotten people used to say it!!
Sock it to me. A bit of slap and tickle. A bit of hows your father. ask a policman. after you-no after you..
yes long time since iv'e had a bit of hows your father,never mind a slap & tickle,great lines!!!

Chronic


as in oooo it was chronic


for something you dont like


Spigot and spyle, those bits of wood that stick out of an unpressurised beer barrel I hardly hear now.



Groovy - ugh ! Grotty - even more ughh


Entryism and CP of GB tactics


Fuzz and Pigs for the boys in blue


corporate rip-off : this still occurs but people dont seem to complain as much


un-job and un-career. havent heard those for years since the seventies until last week, when an un-artist who specilaised in creating the art form called happenings died and got an obituary


erm thats just about it

very much obliged (thank you)


going all round the wrekin (going the long way round) although I think this is a midlands dialect saying...

Typewriter.


Good morning.


Hard-wired phone


Album


Gate-fold sleeve


Nice.


If I say "tuppence," meaning two pence, folk look at me, confused......
In my house from teenagers : "here is the change from the twenty pound note you gave us ,to buy a drink and a chocolate bar"
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Bent as a nine bob note.


Man (as in are you for real, man).


Groovy.



Gramaphone, radiogram, music centre.


Tape recorder. Transistor radio (trusty tranny).



"Flash the ash"


"Are your fags damp?"


"Is it my crash?"


All smoking related phrases, you'll notice.
Also with the decline in smokers generally, and the price of cigarettes specifically, the act of "crashing" your cigarettes (like a round of drinks where, when it's your "crash" you pass around the cigarettes) has gon the way of the dodo.


Another related phrase that seems to have all but disappeared, and probably for the same reason, is "You put a dogs @rse on that!" meaning that when you returned a shared ciggy, you left the filter wet!

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