h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just what is the "price of tea in China", and what happened to all the brilliant expressions of my, and many others, younger years. Like, "the best thing since sliced bread", "eat all your dinner-just think of the starving millions in India/China" Well, there are even more millions now, and I still don't eat all my dinner. There must be many more floating around out there, but they are no longer heard. Let us start a movement to bring them back into regular use.

It was the starving children in Africa when I was growing up.

I wonder - did that phrase stem from the post-War austerity times, when there really wasn't enough to eat and people were hungry all around you? Then later, as food supplies re-established themselves, you couldn't look at your country so easily, so the phrase re-invented itself to the next known place with famine.

I don't think I'd want to bring that one back in to use, but I like the sliced bread one (and remember that from my youth as well).

I am racking my brain for other expressions, but they come and go like the wind. I do remember mum saying that if we didn't eat our crusts we wouldn't get curly hair.

"If the wind changes, you'll be stuck like that."

In my day it were "the price of fish" and "all the tea in China"

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

Friday's fish