Sayings you don't hear anymore

glazedallover said:
Aren't those Jews lovely people.
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Without wishing to be a killjoy I think we have to tread carefully here, but you used to get called a 'jew' if you were considered mean

and there was 'you lying arab'

the corner shop had another name as did Chinese restaurants, if you call me woke about this I'll take it as a compliment

see you at teatime

blokes called 'Dutch' who are not from the Netherlands
 
ex hibitionist said:
and then there was 'whoops a daisy'

and did anyone ever really say 'Hello Sailor!'?
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Yes, they did. No idea where it came from, but I vaguely recall it was linked to a catchphrase on a TV show. I worked with a bloke in the 70s who used to greet everybody with 'Bonjour Matelot!' as an alternative.
 
ex hibitionist said:
Without wishing to be a killjoy I think we have to tread carefully here, but you used to get called a 'jew' if you were considered mean

and there was 'you lying arab'

the corner shop had another name as did Chinese restaurants, if you call me woke about this I'll take it as a compliment

see you at teatime

blokes called 'Dutch' who are not from the Netherlands
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Also ladies. I refer to my wife often as my old dutch, short for duchess of course.
 
I remember my old nan when I was a kid coming out with “well bugger me with a fish fork” as a young kid, I didn’t know what bugger meant so my only question was what was a fish fork?🤣

I never heard it again until years later I’m pretty sure it was general melchett, the brilliant Stephen Fry came out with it in blackadder goes forth 🤣
 
Willo said:
About a month ago I was in the company of a fellow Conservative who used the term "Them's the breaks".
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Boris Johnson used that term during his resignation speech. Loverley Tory, and thoroughly nice chap.
 
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