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nioka said:
That one is not out of date. I regularly hear it quoted.
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My year 7 teacher use to say it all the time! whenever i hear it these days it makes me cringe. He thrashed that saying daily, and so for me it is very out of date. Anything thrashed becomes out of date quickly.
He use to say 'Stiff cheddar' too.
 
nunthewiser said:
yes , once upon a time the saying "call a spade a spade "was perfectly acceptable as a general quote for being straightforward. These days it seems to have a more dire meaning , shame that , but hey its progress isnt it ?
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Haven't heard that in a long time
 
Not out of date but out of fashion, (particularly with share traders)

"neither a borrower nor a lender be".
 
These are not sayings, just words that I have not heard for a very long time:

Franger
Dinger

I suppose these devices are so much more serious now ....
 
I don't think I have ever said "Fill 'er up, please" but I do remember my parents saying it.
 
Mother-of-the-Bride's duties :-

Helping with the budget, (ince you may be footing all or some of the bill)
Helping the bride pick out a wedding dress.
Contacting the groom' mother regarding the guest list.
Teaching her daughter about the birds and the bees.
 
Maybe not out of date but out of place...

A few days ago I told a shop assistant I was shouting my daughter and she could not believe her ears. Huh????

Aussies would know what I meant!
 
Doris said:
Maybe not out of date but out of place...

A few days ago I told a shop assistant I was shouting my daughter and she could not believe her ears. Huh????

Aussies would know what I meant!
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Sounds like something out of the "shouting hill". I can see you lived in the valleys, mountains or outback.

There used to be a lot of sayings, sometimes jokes, that started "The actor said to the Bishop...". It's a longtime since those jokes etc., went the rounds.
 
My late father (born before the First World War) had some very politically incorrect sayings about women:

About bow-legged women: "You could drive a herd of cattle between her legs as long as the horns aren't too long."

About women with buck teeth: "She could chew a cob of corn through a picket fence."

(Ducking for cover now.)
 
Regarding the weather..

"It's looking black out the back of Bill's mothers place"
 
An old 1966 film on Saturday with Paul Newman...they kept referring to eachother as "old stick"...similar to "old boy"
 
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