no time is perfect but most of us came home from school and were safe and well fed...not steak, but plenty of meatloaf and spaghetti...
I love words and expressions....
"its raining cats and dogs"..
"mind your p's and q's"
Dat be racist.
Well I’ll be a blue nosed gopher, you’ve sure found a lot of those obsolete words & phrases!
Great post...LOL
For later.....
“I’m feeling gay today!”
Bodacious
Say what?
Nice list of “our words” from a time and world we would wish on our kids and grandkids.
However, if I were to say “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle”, that would imply that I’m related to Maxine Waters. NO WAY JOSE!
I’d have to be “plastered” just to think about that, in my cups, Ripple Time.
Going Lickety-split..
Lesbians have possibly stolen that one.
Keep on truckin’
Remember those two cartoon chipmunks Chip & Dale?
They were always agreeing with each other.
Chip would say something, and Dale would say ‘Indubitably!”
They were hilarious and taught me that word.
“Don’t put that bee in her bonnet!”
meaning, ‘don’t put that idea in her head.”
I recall when seeing the phrase “Made In Japan” was worth a grin. I was presumed that the item was poorly made.
Then....the 70’s happened. General Motors and Ford were never quite the same again. The Labor Union used to hit Japanese made cars with hammers the moment they saw on in the company parking lot.
You want way back? Try 23 skadoo or seeing the elephant!
Words never heard from kids today: please and thank you.
Killroy Was Here, is from the cartoonish bald man with big and a HUGE nose and two hands looking over a wall drawing, that WW II G.I.s would leave scrawled, where they were fighting/station.
And a whole LOT of those terms are are quite old Holy Moley is well over 100 years old! ) , though they were still in use for many decades!
wicked good post- we always used to say when we burped “Pardon Me, I meant to puke” - that was pretty popular-
Man alive! It’s a doggone shame how many old idioms have bit the dust, isn’t it?
Our language was much more colorful, back when we still had a more or less homogeneous American culture.
Beats the pants off me, why it all went the way of the Studebaker.
This thread is really keen.