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Get cracking - as in get on with it
On the 'crack' line, I think few people say 'crackers' to mean 'insane' now. 'Potty,' also meaning insane, seems similarly obsolete.
What a load of hogwash
That's utter hogwash
That bloke's a hogwasher
How things have changed.
He certainly didn't seem the sort to own a successful sporting goods emporium, especially as the parents could only be described as "sporting" if one includes darts as a sport.
Actually, Eastenders was always interesting in this sense. The language in an equivalent series in the US (a little difficult to imagine as American media shows scant interest in poor people!) would have stripped the paper off the walls. However, good old Den and Phil and the gang never said anything much stronger than 'For cryin' out loud!' ... and, oddly enough, it worked, at least for me. I never felt that the lack of colorful expletives was an issue, and yet the language was thoroughly inauthentic in avoiding them.
it works well in my head