Posted on 05/13/2021 10:50:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
Here are a list of words that we need to reintroduce into the daily conversation before they leave us completely.
Try some of them with your grand-kids.
And by all means please add your own to the list.
Good ones!
Spit and vinegar.
Spit and polish.
Spic and span.
Ship shape.
On a wing and a prayer.
A shoestring and a prayer.
The cat who chewed your new shoes. (The Chattanooga choo choo)
LSMFT = “Loose straps make flabby t___”
I’ve been pounding the pavement all day and now my dogs are tired.
“I don’t quite catch your drift”
“Mind your own beeswax”
Poppycock
Skullduggery
A merkin?
marking?.
Kind of like a Karen, but different.
Fubar, and Fubacor. The first one is what we are today. The second, what we are if we allow any more ground to be swallowed up by The Party.
I don’t catch your drift, Steve.
Yep. You probably won’t find it in collegiate dictionaries and such, but a good unabridged dictionary should have it, or there’s always the Oxford English Dictionary.
My favourite the ‘32 Model J Torpedo Phaeton supercharged straight 8, 101 mph in second gear. Weighed in at 4700 lbs.
A merkin ~ American
I know what a merkin is. They are a bit passe these days.
The extensive grooming in that area that is practiced these days is seldom viewed as evidence of lice infestation, as it had been in the past.
Id imagine that few lice could survive a Brazilian wax job.
I don’t know what the heck happened with this one. I was going for “pecksniff”, as a kind of a Karen.
Sounds like a doozy! I wonder what the firing order on a straight 8 was? They were more like a locomotive than a horseless carriage.
Or “big badda boom” (Fifth Element)
Here’s one I haven’t heard/used in a while: “Whirlygig”. And no, it’s not musical in nature.
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