What Are the Sayings in Bingo?
If you enjoy a simple casino game once in a while then bingo is your game. However, if you don’t play the game often you will not be familiar with the sayings in bingo. Bingo lingo is used for calling out specific numbers. Depending on where you are playing bingo these sayings may differ.
There are many obscure bingo lingo terms with some being funny, rhyming and others reminding you of things your grandmother used to say. Most of the bingo lingo stems from the mid-20th century in London where these sayings were used to pass secret messages. Now they are some of the sweetest bingo sayings.
We share the most used 60 sayings in bingo with you below:
- Kelly’’s Eye
- Me and you, One little duck or Kelly’s Cousin
- Goodness me, Cup of tea or a flea
- Knock on the door
- Man Alive or one little snack
- Spot below, Chopsticks or Tom Mix
- Luck number seven
- Harry Tate, One fat lady or Garden gate
- Doctor’s orders
- Johnson’s Den, Blind 10, or Cock ‘n’ Hen’
- Legs Eleven
- A monkey’s cousin or one dozen
- Unlucky for some
- Valetine’s day or lawnmower
- Young and Keen
- Never been kissed or Sweet Sixteen
- Old Ireland or Dancing queen
- Coming of age
- Goodbye-teens
- One score or Blind 20
- Royal Salute or Key to the door
- Two little ducks, All the Twos or PC Parker
- A duck to a flea or thee and mee
- Two dozen
- Duck and dive
- Bead and Breakfast or Pick ‘n Mix
- Gate way to Heaven
- In a state or Over Weight
- Rise and Shine
- Dirty Gertie, Speed limit or Blind 30
- Get up and run
- Buckle my shoe
- Dirty Knee, Fishy chips and peas or All threes
- Ask for more
- Jump and Jive
- Three Dozen
- More than eleven
- Christmas Cake
- Jack Benny or Steps
- Naughty 40, Blind 40 or Life Begins
- Life’s Begun, or Time for fun
- Winnie the pooh
- Down on your knee
- All the Fours
- Cowboy’s friend or Halfway there
- Up to tricks
- Four and seven
- Four Dozen
- Nick-Nick, or Copper
- Half a century or Blind 50
- The Highland Dive or Tweak the thumb
- Deck of cards or weeks of the year
- The Welsh Div or Stuck in a tree
- Clean the floor
- Snakes alive
- Was she worth it?
- Heinz Varieties
- Choo Choo Thomas or Make Them Wait,
- Brighton Line
- Five Dozen, Blind 60, or Grandma’s Getting Frisky
- Bakers Bun
- Turn the screw or Tickety-boo
- Tickle me 63
- Almost retired or Red raw
- Old age pension
- Clickety click
- Stairway to heaven or The Argumentative Number
- Saving Grace or Pick a Mate
- Favorite of mine or Meal for two
- Three score and ten or Blind 70
- Bang on the drum
- Six dozen or par the course
- Queen bee
- Hit the floor or Candy Store
- Strive and strive
- Trombones
- All the sevens or Sunset strip
- 39 more steps
- One more time
- Blind 80, Eight and blank or Ate Nothing
- Fat Lady with a Walking Stick or Stop and run
- Straight on through
- Ethel’s Ear or Time for tea
- Seven dozen
- Staying alive
- Between the sticks
- Torquay in Devon
- All the eights or Two fat ladies
- Nearly there
- End of the line or Top of the shop
Final Thought
Most of this saying in bingo are rhymes or refer to something very similar. Not only would they liven up any bingo game, but you could phrase two to use in your everyday life. Now we see why bingo players have the sharpest tongues, it’s all these sayings. There you have it, the next time you play bingo at a bingo hall or live you will be able to catch on to the numbers being called quickly. Remember if you don’t yell ‘BINGO’ when you have a winning pattern, you won’t win a dime.
