Things people used to say

Sam-Skwantch

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Anyone want to join me in naming a few phrases or sayings that people used to say that are less common nowadays or gone all together? Extra cool points awarded for noting the era and defining the phrase. I'd love to learn some from other languages!!

Here is one from the 60's and 70's:
"Out of sight" - used to describe something that is extraordinary

For some 80's flavor
"Gag me with a spoon" -to show disgust

1920's lingo
"Now your on the trolley" -figured something out


I thought about putting this in games but decided against it.

 

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"Solid" from the Mod Squad era - 60's-70's

And from an earlier era, "boffo" and "23 skidoo".

 

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The sixties had a fad for black humor that resultef in some wacko sayings.

As funny as a truckload of dead babies on.Mother's Day
to mean not funny was one of them

A similar, older saying was
As funny as a crutch

If you paid too much for something, "Did you feel anything hit you in yhe back of the head when you left the store?
(That was your change)

Stupid=few cans short of a six-pack

1950's
Shortsheeted= cheated

20's stuff
He's got Moxie- meaning courage, guts, after a nasty tasting soft drink
Cooking with gas--fast, really energized
banana oil- said of false statements


1980's
Does anyone call people yuppies any more? (Young Upwardly mobile Professionals)

 

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What about "Go figure." Hated that!!! Go figure

How about "funky." This women I used to work with said she had some really funky shoes.... so I asked what are funky shoes??? She got this weird look on her face and said...I don't know.

 

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And of course, groovy, from the 1960's

 

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I was reading 'a Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It is a famous children's story...however their use of the word 'ejaculate' is considerably different in its use than it is these days.

 

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Isn't that the truth?

Yes, and "Our hearts were young and gay," does not mean what it did when Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote a book named that in the 1940's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Hearts_Were_Young_and_Gay

 

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Jeepers: 60's and 70's- I think this meant something scary was happening because Velma always said it in Scooby Doo.

 

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Jeepers is a euphemism for saying, "Jesus Christ."

In Vermont, they used to use ,"Jeezum Crow," the same way.

 

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Newbiespectator said:

I was reading 'a Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It is a famous children's story...however their use of the word 'ejaculate' is considerably different in its use than it is these days.

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In "The Fellowship of the Ring" before the Fellowship starts to climb Caradhras, Boromir suggests that to aid their survival, each member should "get together a f......, as big as he could carry". The missing word starts with F and is a commonly used slur against gay people. In spite of hearing it all the time as I grew up (alas), I had no real concept of what it meant, and consulted a very old-timey dictionary. After that, I was just so confused as to why my father would call these men "a bundle of sticks"!

 

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From the 1930's, ishkabibble
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=1132471&term=ishkabibble

to mean trash, or "so what"

 

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Does anyone say "lose your marbles" anymore?

 

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Newbiespectator said:

I was reading 'a Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It is a famous children's story...however their use of the word 'ejaculate' is considerably different in its use than it is these days.

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The same word is used regularly in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

 

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SkateFiguring said:

The same word is used regularly in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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Ah yes, another favorite of mine. My sister found a place where Sherlock says to Watson
"Sorry to knock you up in the middle of the night old chap"
Hehehe.