Old-Fashioned Sayings

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This Guide Entry is designed to list the most famous of old-fashioned period terms, mostly taken from that excellent series of books by P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster. You'll find them all listed in categories for your convenience. You'll also find that I myself use these terms an awful lot.

Saying Hello

  • What ho!
  • What ho! What ho! What ho!

Saying Goodbye

  • Pip pip!
  • Tinkerty tonk!
  • Toodlepip!

Expressing Doubt

  • Piffle!
  • Pish!
  • Pish posh!
  • Tchah!

Cursing

  • Bally- ('Dratted-' [must be followed by whatever the dratted thing is])
  • Dash- ('Drat-' [must be followed by either 'it' or 'the whole thing'])
  • Fiddlesticks! (Drat!)

Misc

  • whatnot

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