29 Outdated Words And Phrases Some Older Folks Use That Puzzle Millennials And Gen Zers In This Online Group

My name is Susan so I heard it all the time

I will be adopting this phrase, going into effect immediately. Thank you!

I had an uncle who said "turd of Herdles" instead.

His cheese has slid off his cracker

I assume this is idiomatic for “not my problem.”

Better than the early 2000s, when the standard phone greeting was "WHAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!?"...

Straight out of the 1950s...and it’s Daddy-o

Your English professor isn't allowed to swear on the job

Hello Mr "in time for dinner" I'm Mrs "always room for dessert"

I heard Sheldon use this one on Big Bang Theory.

A good ice cream turns me on too😅😅😅

My late grandmother saud that. She was born around 1900.

Velcro - for hook and loop closures. Kleenex - for facial tissues. Ziplock - for storage bags. There are a lot of things like this. Not so much outdated, more of a habit using brand names for every item like it.

Both Davenport and Chesterfield are styles not brands.

I'm so old when I first heard the word futon -I looked for it in the dairy case!

my mom used to say "go sit out on the davenport" when the grandkids were little, they thought the davenport was the porch

Very old word.

No, a davenport is a small sofa that when you lift the seat/bench until it clicks, it moves forward, the back goes flat and it converts to a double bed.

Chesterfield.

That was a fairly common thing when I was growing up. To some people back then, all refrigerators were Frigidaires, all cola drinks were Coke, all tissues were Kleenex, and so on.

My mom called the couch a "chesterfield," which I later learned refers only a particular kind of couch with curved arms.

I always wondered where that came from - my Mother in Law uses it.

One sits on a Davenport , one lounges on a couch ......or some posh crap like that

We called it the chesterfield growing up. My mom's parents were British. Also, confused the heck out of me when I heard that people smoked Chesterfield!

I always thought this was a regional thing...I've only head that in Wisconsin (where I live now), not anywhere else. Interesting....

My great grandma always said that too. “Go sit on the Davenport while I run the sweeper”

I remember when davenport meant couch, but I never knew it was a brand name. Also, sofa...does anyone still use sofa for couch?

I’m familiar with this phrase

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.

Haha that's cute

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

Yeah, this is something older millennials remember. I remember it from 9th grade and I'm 32.

He doesn't have any gay friends, does he.

And that, my friend, is what’s known as a Generation Gap!

She’s only five years older than I am and one of my faves is “cool beans”

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.

Horse feathers!

I have heard "geez louise"

Lots of countries had to fight the Japanese in WWII. Dutch, British, Australians and then there were all the locals like Malay, Indonesian, etc.

"technically, sir, if I whacked it off for you, it wouldn't be called whacking off..."

Colder than a witches tit in a brass bra. An old friend says that.

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.”

"If wishes were Porsches, beggars would drive" ---- my mom having twisted "If wishes were horses".

I called it tinkle once and my husband was like, "You are an adult, not a child".

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.

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.

She probably remembers back when it was pretty much all white men all the time.

I’ve heard cotton-picking as a substitute for numerous swear words.

Zero sense in that indeed