Lost idioms of youth

[Voldemort]

Slang/idioms: they come, they go out of fashion. (I tried to explain yeet to my mother in law with little success recently)

But it must be two decades to yesterday since I heard someone say 'right in the goolies'. Fair made me chuckle and I wondered what other idioms would spark the memories as they've not been uttered for some time.

[Stuart70]

Aye am ur - yes I am. Glasgow 1970s

Super helpful. - vaguely useful. North and West London now.

Square go - a fight. Glasgow 1970s.

[Dr Jekyll]

Shanghaied - Used to mean moved somewhere against your will, haven't heard it for years.

'It's washing it's hair' = Often used in the past to refer to electronic gear not communicating EG 'our modem is working but their's is still washing it's hair'. Used it at work a few weeks back and nobody knew what I meant.

[Spare tyre]

Stuart70 said:

Aye am ur - yes I am. Glasgow 1970s

Super helpful. - vaguely useful. North and West London now.

Square go - a fight. Glasgow 1970s.

I use square go now, softer upsetting a Glaswegian workmate in around 2007 when I first heard it!

[easytiger123]

Chinny reckon seems to have disappeared from use.

[Evoluzione]

They tend to be area dependent, but loads from Yorkshire. I was watching Kes the other night which had a few in it.
They had a strange way of pronouncing Rs with a G from the throat. If you remember Mark N Lard, then Lard used to say 'Mustn't gggumble'. Bright would become bgight with a soft G

La(y)kin' was playing.
Ace and macca was something fantastic.
Man alive was an exclamation
Causeway was pavement, but shortened to Causer. 'Don't walk along't causer edge lad else you'll end up under a bus' ya muther would say.

[Super Sonic]

'min' When I was at school 'min' used to mean 'very', as in 'these chips are min hot'. Nobody says this anymore.

[sherman]

I got called a 'pure dead mongo' as I was ejecting 3 neds in their best trackies from the pub the other night.
Havent heard that saying in a long time.

[Zio Di Roma]

sherman said:

I got called a 'pure dead mongo' as I was ejecting 3 neds in their best trackies from the pub the other night.
Havent heard that saying in a long time.

Lucky they didn’t “duff you up”

[spikeyhead]

I heard "square go" often enough in Luton, but almost always from the Irish there to describe a fair fight.

[vulture1]

i had to look up "Yeat"

[AndrewCrown]

I can think of several but they were the preserve of the late 70s early 80s, which have quite rightly in some circumstances disappeared.

Terms shortened and related to cerebral palsy or other high profile charity personalities. Shocking now when you think back.

On a similar note I can think of plenty related to ones personal relationship preferences …best left back there!


On a less offensive trajectory

Nosh
Scran
Courting
Stepping out with
Tab (probably still popular in the North East
Backie….in relation to two on a bicycle
Bairn or Bairns
Slaphead or Tefal
Part ex why…
Is pint of snakebite & black still a thing?
Black & Tan (beer mix)
Mashing…tea…probably still well used
Wireless….now a different context
Gramophone
Skiddies…or Grundigs ..underpants
Can I reverse the charges please mum

[mfmman]

Possibly a Bristol one only but 'Beamer' for one who blushes easily.

Of course yelling 'beamer, beamer' is only going to make the red faced one worse.

I hadn't heard it since the 80s until someone posted it on a Facebook local memories group

[s p a c e m a n]

You melt

[voram]

AndrewCrown said:

Skiddies…or Grundigs ..underpants

See also, "shreddies".

And I always enjoyed the Australian "budgie smugglers" but haven't heard it for ages.

[Evoluzione]

Calling someone a Joey after Mr Deacon was popular, as was flid and spastic. We used to say 'You've been Jewed' if you'd been ripped off.

[Evoluzione]

Drive = Bez.

Are we off for a bez?
He's been bezzin around all morning.

[Stuart70]

mfmman said:

Possibly a Bristol one only but 'Beamer' for one who blushes easily.

Of course yelling 'beamer, beamer' is only going to make the red faced one worse.

I hadn't heard it since the 80s until someone posted it on a Facebook local memories group

Definitely in my Scottish childhood, shouted “beeeame-er” at the poor embarrassed shy kid!

[coppernorks]

Another Glasgow one " your tea's oot " meaning an altercation is imminent.

Racial type epithets were well to the fore in the schooldays of the 1960s

A Radge [ or Raj ] was a crazy idiot.

Everyone that scored an easy goal was a Jammy Arab

A Gadgie or Gadge is officially travelling people slang for a non-travelling person,
yet strangely we as kids used it as a derogatory term for a travelling person [ tink, shoddy ].

[AndrewCrown]

Evoluzione said:

Calling someone a Joey after Mr Deacon was popular, as was flid and spastic. We used to say 'You've been Jewed' if you'd been ripped off.

I couldn’t say but now you have…spakka was another terrible variation