Outdated references you still hear used

[ursus arctos]

Outdated references you still hear used

My mother used donkey's years, it is still quite current in New York.

[Hofzinser]

Outdated references you still hear used

I still use "donkeys years". It hadn't occurred to me that it could be either regional or outdated.

Not strictly related to the theme of the thread, but following on from the lovely "piffy on a rock bun", a West of Scotland colloquialism that I particularly like is "away to one side like Gourock", used to describe something that is lopsided, unevenly distributed etc - in reference to the Scottish coastal town of that name, which is supposedly well built-up and developed in the part of the town near the sea, and much more sparsely so on the non-coastal side.

[HORN]

Outdated references you still hear used

I also still use "donkey's years".

I tend to express outrage at the price of something in old money. "Fourteen shillings for a Mars Bar!"

And when I remember I like to doff my cap to my grandmother by referring to the kitchen as "the scullery".