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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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'Your slip is showing'
A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '
'just going to powder my nose '
A phrase women used to say when they were going to the loo '
Can anyone remember any other now defunct polite phraseology???  |
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I still use "I'm going to powder my nose" and the expression the powder room. It depends on the company, but it's an unobtrusive way to say I'm off for a piss! 
One of my friends says gosh and golly. She retrained herself when she realised how often she was swearing and didn't like it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Are you 'wooing'
Going out with someone"
Another one was.......
'she's walking out with so n so'
Meaning they were dating!
I love the old phrases hehe |
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"Are you 'wooing'
Going out with someone
Another one was.......
'she's walking out with so n so'
Meaning they were dating!
I love the old phrases hehe "
Courting was the one I used to hear - still occasionally do! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Are you 'wooing'
Going out with someone
Another one was.......
'she's walking out with so n so'
Meaning they were dating!
I love the old phrases hehe "
Are you courting?
What? No Nanna, I'm not.
When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.
I miss my Nanna. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Are you 'wooing'
Going out with someone
Another one was.......
'she's walking out with so n so'
Meaning they were dating!
I love the old phrases hehe
Are you courting?
What? No Nanna, I'm not.
When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.
I miss my Nanna. "
Hahahahahaha
BRILLIANT  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Are you 'wooing'
Going out with someone
Another one was.......
'she's walking out with so n so'
Meaning they were dating!
I love the old phrases hehe
Are you courting?
What? No Nanna, I'm not.
When I came out, I told my Nanna I was gay, her response was 'No dear, you're a lesbian'.
I miss my Nanna. "
When I came out my aunt said ' oh you probably got a touch of flu m feeling a bit under the weather - it'll pass '
Lol |
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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago
Rockford |
I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot". |
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"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot". "
Skedaddle is not just American, got used a lot during my Yorkshire childhood.
I was thinking recently that there are a few words that I grew up thinking everyone knew but it turns out are not only dialect but very local dialect.
Like nesh, snicket and chomping (chomping is not anything to do with eating or teeth). |
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"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot". "
What on earth does "caddywampus" mean?  |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"'Your slip is showing'
A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '
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I've not heard it used in that context.
My recollection is that it dates from the time more women made their own clothes, the skirts often weren't lined and so a slip or petticoat was the norm.
I've also heard 'it's raining in Paris' to mean the same thing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'Your slip is showing'
A phrase that meant that by something you said you are showing your age '
'just going to powder my nose '
A phrase women used to say when they were going to the loo '
Can anyone remember any other now defunct polite phraseology??? "
i hear women in pubs/clubs say they're off to powder their nose fairly often |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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owt ut way! av pots to side and clinkers to riddle. and shes no better than she should be, fur coat and no nickers that one. she never went short of chewing gum. an ill tell yer summat else an all, he never married either, summat wrong wi im. |
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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago
Rockford |
"I think one of my past lives keeps showing up or maybe its my southern american roots but I use a lot of old fashioned phrases. I'm forever using words like "caddywampus" "skedaddle" and "scoot".
What on earth does "caddywampus" mean? "
scrooked...askew  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not sad at all that it's not around any more: four-eyes for people who wear glasses "
Ist thee a goggle ed then? i wouldnt worry like, never seen a dunce wearin em!
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