Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before

[Marc Meakin]

Cutting a rug
My missus was shocked that I'm 60 and didn't know it.
I only found out watching the Netflix film Reptile

[Mark Deeks]

There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

[Fiona T]

There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

[Marc Meakin]

There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

I use it a a term of endearment for my dog

[Paul Worsley]

There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

Wasn't there a cartoon strip in The Beano called "His Nibs" about a group of mice?

[Mark Deeks]

There may well have been, but I am neither a comics guy nor of the Beano generation. Just never heard of that phrase, guess it's more ubiquitous than I would ever have thought.

[Gavin Chipper]

I've never heard it either from what I can recall.

[Paul Worsley]

There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

Wasn't there a cartoon strip in The Beano called "His Nibs" about a group of mice?

Apparently, it was called "The Nibblers" and the head mouse was called His Nibs.

[Fiona T]

Yeah def one I heard a lot growing up. Used for someone (male obv) who expected to by waited on - "see if his nibs wants a cup of tea"

[Marc Meakin]

Maybe their is a threshold for the saying
Im guessing those under forty may not have heard it used.

[Marc Meakin]

Another one is wearing a hair shirt.

I also had to look up what a charley horse is

[Marc Meakin]

I flew in on the red eye so I'm very tired

[Johnny Canuck]

"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

Didn't hear it recently but was surprised to have not discovered it until 25+

[Marc Meakin]

One I've only heard recently.
Not my Circus, not my monkeys