Phrases you don't hear any longer...

Don’t be such a willy wufter

 

A stitch in time saves nine

 

Eat it up it will put hairs on your chest

 

If you don’t finish that you’ll have it cold for breakfast

 

He’s on tother bus that fella

 

Waste not want not

 

Chin up it might never happen

 

You look with your eyes not with your hands

 

Our local version - couldn't put a hole in a wet Echo.

 

eat your crusts -will make your air curly

 

I’ve seen more meat on a butchers pencil

 

She could talk the hind legs of a donkey

 

Is person X there? - when you used to dial someone on the phone (X being their name)

 

You’ll never finish that in a month of Sunday’s

 

Where there’s muck there’s brass

 

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

 

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth