Quaint terms you rarely hear these days.

[LadyOnArooftop]

I was having lunch with an old friend yesterday. She's been with her chap since schooldays but they are not married. I asked her why after all this time, she was still 'living over the brush', and it struck me at the time what a quaint/old fashioned saying.
Others I can think of...
'Tubbed' - got pregnant
'Gibbed' - dumped in a relationship (I'm very familiar with this one!)
If you come across any others, feel free to share...

 

[Billyliar]

My nan used to ask me are you courting?
Dating.
Her friend worked in the chemist, and she gladly provided her with all my purchases.
Her intelligence, network, was 2nd to none.

 

[Billyliar]

Another saying i havent heard in ages, is the spanish archer.
I recall a incident, at work, i was working with a till full of twenty notes.
It was only going one way tbh.
4 days in billyliar to the office please!
The spansh archer for you they said, well whats that mean i said.
The old el bow.

 

[Billyliar]

Thing was then, people talk dont they.
Couldnt get a job nowhere, bar fyffes bannanas yard in bristol docks.
They used to come straight off the boat.
Again, i got sacked, bet a guy, 20 cigs, he couldnt, jump 400 foot off a crane, into a pile off bannanas.
Then i bet a bloke, a fiver, he couldnt eat a spider we found on the boat, from cuba.
Both ended up in hospital, and i was blamed,

 

[PennyDreadful2]

An even older term for dating someone, was walking out with someone. My GrandMother used this expression, she would have been a young woman, in the 1920's.

 

[Saphire]

Calling a dress a 'frock'...I still do that, I also use the term 'courting', old habits die hard.

 

[Billyliar]

Sentt to coventry.
Ive been there, and nobody deserves that.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Calling a dress a 'frock'...I still do that,

I see your 'frock' and raise you a 'blouse', called 'tops' these days aren't they?

Sentt to coventry

I wonder if people from Coventry ever send people to Coventry?
I remember reading an old Guinness book of records, and it's always stuck in my mind... There was an entry for 'The longest sending to Coventry',
it was some chap in a factory, no one had spoken to him for years... 7 years if memory serves. What are people like? I despair for the human race
at times.

 

[Saphire]

I see your 'frock' and raise you a 'blouse', called 'tops' these days aren't they?

I wonder if people from Coventry ever send people to Coventry?
I remember reading an old Guinness book of records, and it's always stuck in my mind... There was an entry for 'The longest sending to Coventry',
it was some chap in a factory, no one had spoken to him for years... 7 years if memory serves. What are people like? I despair for the human race
at times.

I think 'blouse' is still an acceptable term....mind you, I watch QVC.