sayings lost with age

[tommyguns]

they are out of date but mark my words I am bringing them back!! lol I think its better then swearing, instead of saying THATS HORSE S*** !!!! You can just say" thats for the birds".Id say it's a little more polite and if anybody could use a little refining it is definitely me i can be a little rough and blunt.

I honestly don't know where I picked it up I don't think my father used them although I don't think i ever paid attention to it until I started dating my girl and she pointed it out.

[Legion]

I grew up hearing "pop", then moved to "soda", and now it is all "coke" Do you remember Fanta?

Do you guys realise that Fanta outsells Coke in some parts of Europe?

Terms and phrases I actively am trying to bring back, and use in regular conversation despite the funny looks;

Gumption
Gams (for women's legs)
Daddy-o
Zany
"in a pickle"
"Testicular fortitude"
Any rhyming slang

[tommyguns]

legion you keep fighting the good fight ! Tomorrow when I go to the gym I am going to check out a chick and tell my buddies look at the gams on her!! in your honor.

[Legion]

legion you keep fighting the good fight ! Tomorrow when I go to the gym I am going to check out a chick and tell my buddies look at the gams on her!! in your honor.

Call her a "fine looking filly" and tell them "she has gams for days."

[Arthur]

I grew up hearing "pop", then moved to "soda", and now it is all "coke" Do you remember Fanta?

It's all "coke" because you're in TX.

[tommyguns]

Call her a "fine looking filly" and tell them "she has gams for days."

+1

[dpm802]

Recently I've noticed that when I order a *cruller* ... ... In any case, it's too bad as it's a great word.

Yes, cruller is a great word.
I've always been impressed with the way "kiosk" rolls off the tongue.
They both seem to be onomatopoeic if you want to stretch it.

[Legion]

I do it all the time without realising.

I just told my puppy to quit it with his shenanigans or he wouldn't get any grub.

I think I am "out of time" Slaughterhouse 5 style.

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

How about the old saying..."I'm going to get tight", meaning "I'm going to get drunk".

"All Cognac’s are Brandy...but not all Brandy’s are Cognac". CBJ

[bookwormwendy]

Some of my mom's faves, which I still use- well some of them: "Whatever floats your boat" "Tend to your own rat killing" "Six of one, half a dozen of the other" "Mind your own beeswax"
There are others but these were some of her favorite. What I find interesting is the history behind some sayings like the rat killing and beeswax and the old sleep tight saying. That's where the interesting part really lies. As for the age difference being the cause...unlikely. My husband is one year and not quite one month older than me and he had never heard some of these so I think it comes down to your family and what they handed down to you. My grandparents used these same sayings so I know that's where my mom learned them.

[csmorris]

Some expressions my parents used (and I still do) I thought for many years were just old expressions. I actually think they are just not as common here as there in other countries (one specifically), and not really 'old'.

"Don't be daft!"
"Ta"

to name two.

[Go West Young Man]

Fanta was created in Nazi Germany by the Coca Cola company so that they could continue to sell products there despite the trade blockades during WWII.
Pretty shameful story, actually, but they've never really been called out on it.

[COHunter]

I use "whatever floats your boat" and "whatever blows your skirt up" interchangeably. Another one is "don't have the foggiest" (idea)

[oc_in_fw]

Do you guys realise that Fanta outsells Coke in some parts of Europe?

Terms and phrases I actively am trying to bring back, and use in regular conversation despite the funny looks;

Gumption
Gams (for women's legs)
Daddy-o
Zany
"in a pickle"
"Testicular fortitude"
Any rhyming slang

Well it did start as a German company, so that makes sense.

[oc_in_fw]

It's all "coke" because you're in TX.

Yeah, I was trying (badly) to get that across. In Ohio, I always heard pop. In Bama, it was soda. As you say, Texas is coke.

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

My grandmother when referring to an idiot would say, “He doesn’t know sickem.”

All us grandkids knew what she meant but never asked what sickem was.

Had a junior high football coach that spent a LOT of time yelling at us (didn’t improve our chances of winning but he kept yelling.) He would line us up and have one of the linemen show us personally the upper cut. This was delivered by the lineman (who had been held back a couple of years and so was MUCH larger and heavier) with the upward thrust of his forearm right into the underside of our jaws. Our feet would leave the ground and the next thing to hit the ground would be the back of our helmet. Then it was the next guy’s turn in line.

ANYWAY, he would deliver at high volume, “You haven’t got the brains that God gave a GOOSE!!!"

Another was, “You gutless wonders..."

I’ll be candid and say he got as much out of us as we had which wasn’t much. This was the early 70’s and he wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s culture.

Two of his favorites

[tommyguns]

i remember when i was young in early high school i had been smoking ciggs and my family knew but did not accept it because i was so young, and also most of my family is in the medical field so they were all against it and the ones who did smoke hid it.

Well one day we were at my aunts for a holiday and my grandmother and her sister were there and were drinking "coffee" this was the after dinner "irish coffee" they ended up cornering me away from the other parts of the family and in an old lady irish accent asked me if I had any WEED on me. As i looked at them dumb founded not sure what to say she insisted to tell me she knew i smoked and if i didnt she would give me some money take her car and go get some weed for her.

Now as a early young teen i thought this was crazy, i didnt know what to make of this it was funny yet very disturbing to me I pulled my aunt aside and told her the story and how i was a little confused. she then explained to me that weed was tobacco. She was asking me for a cigarette they just called tobacco weed when she was younger in ireland.

one example of how a word was lost with her age to something else


and to a side note i have not had a smoke in over 6 months and going strong

[Alum of Potash]

Here are a couple of New England sayings that may or may not be on the way out...

"It's colder than (the brass nipple on) a witch's tit!"
"She's so rich, she thinks she s----s ice cream!"

When I arrived in Boston from Chicago as a college student in the early 1980s, my new friends would kid me when I asked for a "soda pop." And come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone ask for a "raspberry-lime rickey" since then either. Must have gone the way of the "soda jerk."

[flycbyrd]

I dont even think you guys got to experience Saturday morning cartoons.

Im 23 and remember waking up early to watch saturday morning cartoons. They just were not the same saturday morning cartoons you watched. Bobby's World, Loui Anderson, Dennis the Mennis and a few others thats all i remeber now. I turn 24 in August.

Sayings not only depend on time period but also geographical region and what type of neighborhood you lived in. For instance" Im 45 hot." I never heard that growing up I lived out in the country in Alabama. When I started working in the city when i was 18 I heard it all the time. I heard dont put all your eggs in one basket and things of that nature.

As far as the soda thing goes. It really depends on what part of Alabama you go to ad where your server is from. Down here alot of meals come with free sweet tea, or they ask you " What would you like to drink, tea or soda?" 15 miles up the road its "would you like a coke".

What suprises me is people who have never had boiled peanuts, tomato gravy, fried cornbread,or homemade tea cakes.

@ TommyGuns congrats on your 6 months. I never smoked cigarettes but i have been tobacco free since September.

[bytor]

My great uncle, in reference to how fast his motorcycle was , would say, "She runs like a raped ape."

My grandfather, when referring to one of the world's absolute truths, would say, "You can put that in your pipe and smoke it." Another favorite of his, when referring to a product of poor quality, he would say, "That's not worth a Tinker's damn."