My husband's favourite that our kids think is crazy is ' it had them rolling in the aisles' (with laughter) or my mum's classic 'you look like Marley's ghost' (white/dead!).
I read it last night in a novel by Pat Barker about WW1 - said by a character describing the nerves of the troops moving up to the front line and thought it was rather good. Barker's research is always assiduous down to every detail, so I am presuming it was in common usage circa 1914-18...
I say old boy well did you ever cough it up, it might be a sovereign eat your greens, lots of Indians and Africans would be pleased to eat that had more pricks that a second hand dartboard you wait til your father gets 'ome he's as quick as two of eels as dead as Jack Robinson what's this? .. Bill Johnson's last bite (said when a skimpy meal is place before one)
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Knecking..
My dad caught me 'knecking' a girl from plymouth when i was 14 at butlins bognor.
I read it last night in a novel by Pat Barker about WW1 - said by a character describing the nerves of the troops moving up to the front line and thought it was rather good. Barker's research is always assiduous down to every detail, so I am presuming it was in common usage circa 1914-18...
well did you ever
cough it up, it might be a sovereign
eat your greens, lots of Indians and Africans would be pleased to eat that
had more pricks that a second hand dartboard
you wait til your father gets 'ome
he's as quick as two of eels
as dead as Jack Robinson
what's this? .. Bill Johnson's last bite (said when a skimpy meal is place before one)
turn on a tanner (or sixpence if you're posh)
The postilion has been struck by lightning
Fares please !!
Keen as mustard
Charlton have won the Cup.