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29 Outdated Words And Phrases Some Older Folks Use That Puzzle Millennials And Gen Zers In This Online Group
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are having a conversation with someone and they use a word or a phrase that you haven’t heard of and have no idea what it means? There are some people who like to use more colorful language and revive words that are no longer used or have changed their meaning throughout time. If you still feel lost when you hear some archaic word or phrase, you are not alone as one Reddit user, @SunRevolutionary8315, asked other people online “What is an outdated word or phrase an older family member uses that makes your brain hurt?” Soon people started sharing sayings their parents, grandparents and other older relatives use in their everyday language and trying to explain the meaning behind these words. So if you’re also looking for ways to expand your vocabulary, the post with more than 34k upvotes is a great source of knowledge.
Do you know someone in your family who also likes to puzzle you with outdated language? Don’t forget to share it in the comments down below!
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#1
Anyone else get told they were “Cruisin for a bruisin” as a kid or just me?
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
I first heard that around 1972 from an angry Aussie. I almost burst out laughing.
John Montgomery 4 years ago
I don't think I ever heard the lawnmower part, but I do remember hearing the first part.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yep. Cruisin' for a bruisin'. No idea origin, don't care, just really hated hearing it.
John Montgomery 4 years ago
I can't remember if I was told it or just heard it on tv. I was born in 81. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as "f**k around find out" today. It means your behavior is going to cause the other person to beat you. Not really a great phrase to use on a person.
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
Yup. And dad's favourite "I'm gonna go through you like a dose of the salts" - didn't have a clue what it meant but didn't like the sound of it
Pat Bond 4 years ago
Still used today. It's smelling salts. If you've ever had the pleasure the are indeed quite strong.
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#2
My late father (born in '33) used to say he'd been "d**ked by the dangling dong of destiny" when something went wrong that was out of his control.
spirit wolf 4 years ago
I will be adopting this phrase, going into effect immediately. Thank you!
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
Dicked was being used in the UK forces in the 1980's and probably still is, but I've not heard your fuller version, being dicked meant being targeted, either by the Enemy (specifically the IRA - dickers were underage 'spotters') or to do some crap detail . . . "I've been dicked to do Christmas duties"
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
That definitely beats The Fickle Finger of Fate from the 1960s show Laugh-In
#3
When I was a kid and we had a slow start to our day my mother would say “we’re off like a herd of turtles” still makes me smile
RandomBeing 4 years ago
My grandma says that when we drive somewhere. My dad does it to sometimes.
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
He works like a herd of wandering wildersloths - used on the warehouse bank at United Carriers, Aldershot in the early 1990's.
Andy Smith 4 years ago
My mom would say “We’re off like a herd of turtles shaking in our girdles”
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
Like a Herd of turtles wearing girdles jumping hurdles was something my grandpa said all the time.
#4
There was an older gentleman, about 70, that I used to work with that looked at me and said “His butter done slid off his biscuit” referring to another coworker acting crazy. I’m in southern Kentucky.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
The rural areas of the US have some of the most wonderfully colorful euphemisms for people who are either a bit crazy or not that bright.
#5
My grandpa likes to use the phrase "not my monkey, not my circus" to everyone asking if he's Polish, we're Latino. He says it in both Spanish and English, "no es mi circo, no son mis monos". I didn't realize until writing it out that he flips the order in English.
Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
He must have heard it from a Polish person and liked it, so he went on using it. This is a very Polish idiom
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
I've heard it a few times, and I'm in the US. Seems pretty common in many places, maybe just more common in Poland.
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LH25 4 years ago
We use this at work. Along with "then I realized it is my circus and those are my monkeys"
Lori McMillen 4 years ago
Brings me back to my manager days and all the crying
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
This one is not really outdated though, based on my having heard multiple younger folks use the phrase.
Sill Marien 4 years ago
It would be a correct order in Polish - monkeys go first in this sentence :)
#6
answers the phone
“Yellow!”
Sky Render 4 years ago (edited)
Better than the early 2000s, when the standard phone greeting was "WHAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!?"...
Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago
Could be worse. Could answer with "Ahoy" (Yes, this was a thing just after phones came out.)
Pezor Zass 4 years ago
Friend who lived in Japan said some of his english speaking friends there would answer the phone "washingmashing" because it sounds like the common phone answering phrase "moshi moshi". i think it was a form of semi-joking rebellion?
#7
Went into a speed shop the other day and overheard the shop owner talking to someone on the phone. Man was 60+ and said un-ironically "Catch ya on the flip side Daddio" to end the conversation he was having.
Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago
"Catch ya on the flip" side" is CB talk out of the 70s. It was used when trucker A (heading one direction) was saying to trucker B (heading the opposite direction) that they'd talk again on each's return trip. Yup, I used to own a CB.
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's where you buy performance-oriented automotive parts and/or a dyno shop that will adjust the tune of your vehicle to meet your particular performance goals.
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
i've been on the flip side for about a decade, still haven't seen any daddy-o's...
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I used to say "catch ya round like a fruit loop". Oh high school, how I don't miss you lol.
#8
slight stray from question, my english professor says “heavens to betsy”
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Heavens to Murgatroyd, even! (From watching 30s-40s era Looney Toons.)
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Well, if you give up cursing.... real profane cursing... you get "son of a biscuit" (my mom) or "kick in the assets" (me)...
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Those sayings make me irrationally annoyed. Then again, I would struggle to find a reason to give up cursing...
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Grace Note 4 years ago
I say that sometimes. I decided to swear less and now that's in my lexicon along with "Crikey!" and " Hellzapoppin'! "
#9
You can call me anything you like except late for dinner!
I use this all the time and my wife tells me that’s something only old men say
Kaliesin 4 years ago
Anyone else perturbed by the pic of the meal... just can't get my head round having a burger with a side of brussels!!! (and I actually like brussels, so it's not a hatred of sprouts talking)
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
If most of the plate is brussel sprouts and mushrooms, please don't call me for dinner at all :P
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
On a side note, that's a horrible looking plate of depression right there
Janos Schumacher 4 years ago
On the farm, "Dinner" is lunch. It's something you look forward to. You want to hear the "Dinner" bell. That's the one thing all day that you look forward to is coming in for dinner or having it brought to you in the field. You don't call me late for dinner. It's my one bit of joy in my day other than the 11 O'Clock news where you get the good weather report for the next day.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
MY hubby live by this saying - that silly bugger even eats my cooking! (Dangerous)
#10
“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas”
the fallen soufflé 4 years ago
If only's and buts were candies and nuts, then everyday would be Erntedankfest. -Dwight Schrute
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
Thank you for posting this so I didn't have to. It's obligatory!
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 4 years ago
My husband says this a lot and for some reason it drives me nuts (and not in a good way).
Flabuless-Jaye 4 years ago
This version came from a nursery rhymes book. I didn't understand it as a child, as I didn't know what a tinker was... " If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers"
#11
My nana says “That really turns me on” about ANYTHING. Good ice cream, a movie, music, doesn’t matter.
John Montgomery 4 years ago
Sounds like it's being used like "that really hits the spot". That one was usually for food though.
#12
"Davenport" to mean couch. Apparently, it was a name-brand couch back in the day.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Ditto with mine. I sometimes say it, as well, and my husband thinks I made it up.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
My grandparents called it a "divan." (From Persian, meaning "bench." No, my grandparents were not Persian.)
Chris Hills 4 years ago
It was a name brand. Googled... "Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark in parts of the United States."
mcborge1 4 years ago
Chesterfields are mainly leather with a low back and deep button tufting and usually associated with dusty old English gentlemens clubs and manor houses.
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I'm so old when I first heard the word futon -I looked for it in the dairy case!
Mary Haynes 4 years ago (edited)
my mom used to say "go sit out on the davenport" when the grandkids were little, they thought the davenport was the porch
Nadine 4 years ago
My grandmother had a family room that everyone called the davenport.
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My mom was not a fan of colorful language, I can't recall ever hearing an f-bomb escape her lips. But if she was mad at someone, she would say "They can just go piss up a rope!" I still don't know WTF she meant.
Melanie Roy 4 years ago
my mom would say this but add...and slide down the slippery side!
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classbag 4 years ago
Well, passing upwards in general will lead to that...
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Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
Pissing up a rope is like pissing into the wind - you're guaranteed to get wet.
Ladyvischuss 4 years ago
Still say it today along with a family favorite, "Jesus Christ on a crutch!" Blurted that one out to a cop one day. He looked at me as if I was insane, which was beside the point.
#14
My dad used to say “That’ll put lead in your pencil”.
Tiny Dancer 4 years ago
That's got to be right up there with, "That'll put hair on your chest!", which always bugged me seeing as I was a chick, lol.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
I always say it'll put hairs on my chest hairs, to scare ppl ;)
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Roger Meunier 4 years ago
Just like eggs or oysters can supposedly refill one's love needle or stamina or erectile capacities, hum.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Yeah eat that I'll put hair on your chest! That meant eat it or ELSE!
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Usually said when trying to consume some horrible high-strength alcohol as some mis-guided attempt at manly things to do.
Fester Sixonesixonethree 4 years ago
Usually referring to the strength of coffee or alcohol. :) Equivalent to "put hair on your chest..."
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Politely put, it "stiffens you up". I heard it usually referring to hard liquor or referring to sexually stimulating images.
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My mother used to say "he's got his wobbly boots on" whenever she saw someone drunk.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
I could be wrong, but those are WWII airborne boots. They look just like mine in the Italian army, but regular ground pounders boots are black. The Airborne were very proud of their boots color. A sign of distinction.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Was she from the Midwest? That has American Midwest written all over it!
Midge biscuit 4 years ago
My grandpa used to always say someone was "too big for their boots" if they were getting overconfident or cocky.
#16
When you put something in your mouth it's really hot and react.
Que grandma "well it wasn't cooked on a f*****k sewing machine"
Daniel Pacheco 4 years ago
wonder if your grandma has latino roots? Sewing machines and to-saw, in castellano & spanish is 'máquina cosedora' / 'coser' (which is very simmilar to 'cocer' /to cook
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
My mother uses to say - well it did just come off the stove you moron!
#17
My father says, and I quote, "Foshizzle Manizzle."
Joanna 4 years ago
Yeah, this is something older millennials remember. I remember it from 9th grade and I'm 32.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I remember this as well, I'm 28. Me and my friends would try to add "izzle" it to the end off a bunch of words to sound gangsta.
Load More Replies... Katherine Boag 4 years ago
I thought they were separate words, but im not sure white ppl should be saying 'my nizzle'
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Foshizzle is from Snoop Dog but I think Manizzle is his own embellishment; I say Foshizzle all the time—so much more fun than “for sure.”
R.D. 4 years ago
The whole thing is from Snoop Dogg. Foshizzle is, as you said, "for sure". The manizzle part is "my n___a".
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Renita McAfee 4 years ago
It's a gennx thing. Snoop Dogg started it or at least made it mainstream
#18
When talking about drinking, my dad says "I got plowed the other night" rather than "I got drunk the other night"
Leodavinci 4 years ago
What does "plowing" have to do with gay friends? It's been a euphemism for hetero sex for ages.
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Robert T 4 years ago
If they got the language right in Sharpe, it was in use in circa 1800 during the Napoleonic wars.
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Phoebe Garcia 4 years ago (edited)
My Australian brother-in-law gets "pissed". I used to wonder - why are you getting mad? LOL
Dodo 4 years ago
We use it that way in the UK too. I've had to remember to alter it for my international friends XD
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I have a friend, about 15 years older than me, who constantly says s**t like "bump uglies".
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I am really old but this just aged me ten more years! (what?)
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#20
My mom is 71, she says things are cool. But she pronounces it like kewel, or kyoul.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
She’s only five years older than I am and one of my faves is “cool beans”
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
The slang term "cool" is possibly the oldest slang word in use with essentially it's same meaning across time.
#21
"The devil's been beatin' his wife"- when the sun is out but it's still raining. I heard this a lot growing up but apparently some people have never heard of it?
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
There's a very old English proverb that goes something like, If it rains while the sun is shining, the devil is beating his wife with a leg of mutton. It's so weird I've never forgotten it.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I have heard this my whole life. I don't know why she doesn't leave him.
Erla Zwingle 4 years ago
In Venice, Italy, where I live, when it rains while the sun is shining they say that the nuns are falling in love.
Chad Crocker 4 years ago
In the South is was a little song we sang as kids during a Sun shower. The devil was spitting fire from hell (the sun) and his wife was crying (the rain)
Beck(formerly Becca/Gizmo sq) 4 years ago
I am from the south and i have never heard tgis little nugget😄
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Donkey boi 4 years ago
In my family and local town, it was always called 'a monkey's wedding'.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
I'm from Texas and this is definitely something I say and also hear a lot.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
In some parts of the Netherlands we say "There's a fun fair in hell."
MellonCollie 4 years ago
Echt waar? Nooit gehoord! Grappig hoe dat per streek kan verschillen :-)
Load More Replies... Midge biscuit 4 years ago
Whenever it was sunny but raining, my parents used to always refer to it as "a monkeys birthday."
#22
My grandma would say “bull feathers” instead of bulls**t
Yoli Lawrence 3 years ago
The writers of MASH used to have a lot of fun with these types of profanities for Col Potter to get around the censors. Bull Biscuits, Horse hockey, Mule Fritters, Pigeon Pellets, Pony Pucks
#23
My older relatives in Michigan (all passed away now) used to say Geez-O-Pete instead of Jesus Christ, I guess so as not to blaspheme? Who f**king knows?
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Geez-oh-(fill in blank) is common, I think, in most of the US among the "mustn't cuss" population.
John Baker 4 years ago (edited)
Judas priest was my grandpa's favorite. And I don't mean bands. ;-)
Helen Haley 4 years ago
i started saying 'for the love of bob' instead of 'for the love of god' because a holy roller I worked with was offended. It amused me so much I kept it.
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#24
My dad still talks about "The Japs!" Like he fought in world war 2. But he's too young and also not American.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Lots of countries had to fight the Japanese in WWII. Dutch, British, Australians and then there were all the locals like Malay, Indonesian, etc.
Rissie 4 years ago
But not many that actively engaged in combat are alive to talk about it. I think this person just meant to say that it's odd that he uses that phrase, the use of Japs specifically narrows it down to an English speaking country that they're from, but it really is the age thing that makes it inappropriate as hell.
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John Rochester 4 years ago
Lots of nationalities are referred to by a shortened version . Brits, Poles, Aussies, Fins, Danes, Turks, what's the problem?
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
My mom refers to the Vietnamese people/sale guys at the Czech border as "Fidschis", and I think it's a common word, because I heard it very often...
Anne Mitchell 4 years ago
Here's a news flash.... Americans were not the only one's fighting in WW11. In fact the rest of the allies had been at war against both Japs and Germans for 2 years before the yanks turned up.
classbag 4 years ago
I think the person in the post knows what nationality their own father is and whether he actually fought the Japanese.
Load More Replies... Mich 4 years ago
Why does Japs sound offensive but shortened versions of other nationalities don’t?
Delta of the Sand/Rainwings 4 years ago
Maybe because it wasused as a racial slur in wwII? (That was not sarcastic btw:V)
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago
Had an uncle that actually was at Pearl Harbor. He called them worse than that till the day he passed.
#25
I hate when old people ask “can you whack this off for me”
For $20 anything is possible tho
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
"technically, sir, if I whacked it off for you, it wouldn't be called whacking off..."
Tami 4 years ago
I think it means to cut or break something off, like a piece of string from a spool or some stretchy cheese from a slice of pizza. At least that's how my mom uses it.
Load More Replies... Flabuless-Jaye 4 years ago
I had a boss who used to have phone conversations with clients and say"as soon as I'm of the call, I'll whack it off for you.". She was a proper posh English lady. We had to tell her it wasn't quite the phrase she should be using. 😂
#26
My coworker says "It's hotter than a blistered d**k in a wool sock"
Robert T 4 years ago
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. :D
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Grandpa: Colder than a well digger's getchie goonie in the south of Antarctica with his boots off.
#27
50/50 chance my mom is gonna say “and we’re off like a dirty shirt” when leaving an establishment.
I kinda like it though
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
My favorite is “Let’s blow this popsicle stand.” I like it so much that I had a Swedish person tell me how to say it, so now I say (this is a transliteration since I have now idea how it it would be spelled in Swedish) the upper-case letters are said in a higher tone than the lower-case ones (apparently this matters) “Lo-TOOS spreng-A det-TA EES-glass stahnd...or, in the language of my people, Let’s blow this popsicle stand.”
Laura Roney 4 years ago
Every morning before my Dad started the car to to take me to school he would say "and we're off in a cloud of camel dust"
Thomas Tilque 4 years ago
How about "make like a tree & leave"? Or "make like horsesh*t and hit the trail"?
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
My mum always said "We're off like a bride's nightie". It was one of her mum's favourite sayings.
#28
grandpa: says narcist instead of narcissist. apparently back in the day that was normal
grandma: if wishes were fishes we’d have a big fry
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
"If wishes were Porsches, beggars would drive" ---- my mom having twisted "If wishes were horses".
lara 4 years ago
Actually, "if wishes were horses then beggars would ride" is the original.
Load More Replies... JP 4 years ago
This is from an old Scottish nursery rhyme that gets changed depending on location or generation. The original is - If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. If turnips were swords, I'd have one at my side. If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, There'd be no work for tinkers' hands.
Robin Childers 4 years ago
If wishes were horses, I'd sell a herd and buy .... whatever I'm wanting. lol
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Growing up my grandfather used to say "If grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle".
#29
My mom says she’s “gotta go tink tink” instead of to the bathroom.
Jessica Rabbit 4 years ago
I called it tinkle once and my husband was like, "You are an adult, not a child".
Robert T 4 years ago
"If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be neat and wipe the seat" is frequently seen on signs for the bathroom.
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Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago
My dad used to say, "I gotta go see a man about a horse." Took me years to understand what that actually meant.
classbag 4 years ago
Drop the kids off at the pool. Take the Browns to the Super Bowl.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
Before we go anywhere my 63 year old husband will say, "Wait. I gotta go make pee pee" but he is in fact, a child.
Flabuless-Jaye 4 years ago
A senior work colleague would look on other people's desks for something to read. He'd then take it to the toilet with him and return it 20minutes later. 🤢
#30
My father still says oriental
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
I live in the Orient where the term is still used and useful. Asia is everything from Arabia to the Philippines. The Orient is the Far East, the Chinese cultural sphere.
NsG 4 years ago
Oriental literally means East. If you orient yourself, it means to point yourself eastward.
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
hmm doesn't really make sense... Asian is anywhere in asia where as as I recall 'oriental' is specifically china/japan/korea etc.
Load More Replies... Mich 4 years ago
Oriental and occidental. The former I hear often in the Uk referring to Asia. The latter I never hear.
Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)
I have read 'occidentals' often in middle eastern literature about Europeans.
Load More Replies... John Montgomery 4 years ago
Me either. I mean as far as I know there's still a party supply company called oriental trading.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
Well, it's a location and a cardinal point. In Italy we called people from the East "Levantini", from the "Levant". It can be derogatory, but not necessarily so. It depends on context.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
This is wrong? I though the Orient was the eastern and south-eastern part of the continent of Asia? Can some explain for me?
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
The modern world likes to make innocuous words taboo. "Oriental" simply means "in the East." Also, it's not like anyone is going to say "Asian carpet."
M O'Connell 4 years ago
On a related note, I heard someone say when I was a child that "Oriental is a rug, while Asian is a person." And I took that to heart.
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Vivian Orr 4 years ago
So now I’m confused. Is it or isn’t it offensive? I have alway used Oriental vs Asian when making a distinction. Is this wrong now?
#31
not offensive, just weird. my dad still says “sipping the sauce” instead of drinking lol
Scagsy 4 years ago (edited)
Here in the UK, people can still be heard saying 'I had a good night on the sauce last night'. Meaning they had many interactions with the barman.
NsG 4 years ago
And depending on how middle class they are, substitute virtually *any* noun for how drunk they got (see Michael McIntyre getting utterly gazebo'd)
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#32
Mother in law.. "black doctor" or "lady doctor" or "man nurse".. always a point worth noting for her
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
She probably remembers back when it was pretty much all white men all the time.
April Caron 4 years ago
When I was giving birth to my last child (in 1994), there was a male delivery nurse on duty… and I was asked my permission, by the female charge nurse, to have him attend to me. I was thoroughly confused. But apparently some women had a problem with a male nurse helping you through child birth. I looked at both him and the charge nurse and said, “I don’t have a problem with my male OBGYN doctor. Why should I care about a male delivery room nurse?”
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Every time someone says "lady doctor" I innocently ask "oh, you mean a gynae?"
#33
Cotton picker. My dad said this instead of swears.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I’ve heard cotton-picking as a substitute for numerous swear words.
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
I mean, who do you think used to pick cotton on cotton plantations? Hint: they weren't paid
Leodavinci 4 years ago
It was Bugs Bunny, not Elmer Fudd, who used to say "cotton pickin' ".. Usually as an adjective, i.e. "Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute."
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Dude, outdated? I get a headhache from my tennage brothers new terminology. Like eating is called dusting. He's dusting the food. What?
Marco Conti 4 years ago
When you "dust" somebody, means to kill them. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. How it got into the lexicon to mean "killing food" I don't know, but it's easy to understand.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I've heard "dusting off" for eating all of your food. Like, getting rid of it.
Michelle Brandt 4 years ago
I just had a visual of my 4 year old with her little duster, swishing it over her food. Maybe then she'd actually eat it, lol!
What do you think ?
Green Cabochon 4 years ago
"If it was a snake it woulda bit you," when it takes a minute to notice something. My grandma always said it and now my mom does.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Oh Lord I can hear my grandmother saying that! Thank you!
Load More Replies... A Head 4 years ago
Had a math professor in college - very nice older Texan woman - who, when talking about someone of...lesser intelligence, would say "He wouldn't now how to pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!"
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I have a question!! How do the older women in your country refer to menstruation? I've heard so many different versions and the most weird are "she has her clothes" (don't even know what that even means) and the classic "the Russians are coming" which I never liked as an expression.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Older women in the Netherlands do not speak much about menstruation. I've heard "Being on the rag." (which seems to have it's origin from the time where women had to sew the pads themselves) and "Waving the red flag."
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Ivana 4 years ago
Drinking the Kool Aid. Heard a co-worker say it recently and I was like, "You know most of them just got straight cyanide because they didn't have enough kool-aid." My co-workers all looked at me like I was nuts. The person who said "drinking the kool-aid" asked what I was talking about. None of them knew it was a reference to Jim Jones. Always find it neat that we can adapt sayings that will become more popular and longer lasting that what the saying references. Like letting the cat out of the bag, looking a gift horse in the mouth, dead ringer, saved by the bell, etc.
lazy panda 4 years ago
For some reason, my dad has always said "it's colder than a witches tit in a brass bra on the dark side of the moon." We live in North Dakota so when that phrase was uttered, we knew it was COLD cold.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
A relative of mine would not stop calling her sandals "thongs". She announced to a group once she needed to "put on her thongs!" before we left her house.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
i don't know where you're from in the US, but i've heard of them referred to as thongs or flip flops interchangabely. It seems to be regional.
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Pat Bond 4 years ago
Generational sayings. They are no more annoying than the youth of today always putting in a completely unnecessary "Like" in a sentence or starting a sentence with "So".
Green Cabochon 4 years ago
Ooh does this mean I'm still a youth?? I'm so used to being called an Elder Millennial.
Load More Replies... Green Cabochon 4 years ago
"If it was a snake it woulda bit you," when it takes a minute to notice something. My grandma always said it and now my mom does.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Oh Lord I can hear my grandmother saying that! Thank you!
Load More Replies... A Head 4 years ago
Had a math professor in college - very nice older Texan woman - who, when talking about someone of...lesser intelligence, would say "He wouldn't now how to pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!"
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I have a question!! How do the older women in your country refer to menstruation? I've heard so many different versions and the most weird are "she has her clothes" (don't even know what that even means) and the classic "the Russians are coming" which I never liked as an expression.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Older women in the Netherlands do not speak much about menstruation. I've heard "Being on the rag." (which seems to have it's origin from the time where women had to sew the pads themselves) and "Waving the red flag."
Load More Replies... Ivana 4 years ago
Drinking the Kool Aid. Heard a co-worker say it recently and I was like, "You know most of them just got straight cyanide because they didn't have enough kool-aid." My co-workers all looked at me like I was nuts. The person who said "drinking the kool-aid" asked what I was talking about. None of them knew it was a reference to Jim Jones. Always find it neat that we can adapt sayings that will become more popular and longer lasting that what the saying references. Like letting the cat out of the bag, looking a gift horse in the mouth, dead ringer, saved by the bell, etc.
lazy panda 4 years ago
For some reason, my dad has always said "it's colder than a witches tit in a brass bra on the dark side of the moon." We live in North Dakota so when that phrase was uttered, we knew it was COLD cold.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
A relative of mine would not stop calling her sandals "thongs". She announced to a group once she needed to "put on her thongs!" before we left her house.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
i don't know where you're from in the US, but i've heard of them referred to as thongs or flip flops interchangabely. It seems to be regional.
Load More Replies... Pat Bond 4 years ago
Generational sayings. They are no more annoying than the youth of today always putting in a completely unnecessary "Like" in a sentence or starting a sentence with "So".
Green Cabochon 4 years ago
Ooh does this mean I'm still a youth?? I'm so used to being called an Elder Millennial.
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