Expressions You Don't Hear Anymore

If X does happen, I will be turning cartwheels

About getting your knickers in a bunch.

Probably that one about a handbasket, does anyone know what a handbasket is anymore?

That’s was the best ass I’ve ever had….

Holler at me later

No one speaks of birds in the hand anymore, let alone bush.

Knickers in a knot

Knickers in a twist

Got him by the short and curlies

Pull the other leg, mate. It's got bells on it. (Australia)

If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather. (Yiddish)

Dang it

Consarn it.

People in Hell want ice water.

What was Bonnie Franklin’s catch phrase on One Day at a Time? Besides Hold me David, of course.

That one Urkel said all the time, I think it was “Did I do that?”

Build the wall.

Thanks for the blow job, your 10 dollars are on the bureau.

Shitting in high (or tall) cotton.

Two shakes of a lamb’s tail

Wild horses couldn’t drag me…

Colder than a witch’s tit

Well, I declare.

'A gone coon' was a favourite of my mother. I don't think she knew exactly what it meant, but had picked it up from some sailors. She lived to 100 and never met a black or coloured person, or jew for that matter, in her entire life. She had met one or two Catholics, which of course were viewed with suspicion and deep pity.

“What would the help think of this?”

“I planted those seeds and the plants grew like Topsy!”

Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!

Window shopping. Penny for your thoughts.

Many years ago somebody once said to me “there’s something of the night about you”. I took it as a huge compliment even though it obviously wasn’t. I haven’t heard that expression for many years.

Ooh la la

I’m three sheets to the wind.

You don’t sweat much for a big girl.

DAAAAT'S DA SUCK JOB!!

“There’s something of the night about you” means “you’re a whore”

Unmitigated gall = brazen disregard for norms

How about it = What’s the problem?

What’cha say? = What do you think?

Mighty White of you = You have done me quite a favor!

Much obliged = Thank you

Okurrrr

Your ass sucks carpet tacks

You look like the wreck of the Hesperus

One iota.

[quote]Thanks for the blow job, your 10 dollars are on the bureau.

Oh, c'mon! I just said that one to your dad last night!

I’ll buy that for a dollar

“Oh, I don’t have any tattoos.”

My mother always used to say "Like Grant took Richmond"

"Beat it" - to mean, get out of here now

America’s the greatest place on earth!

I haven’t seen you in a month of Sundays - haven’t seen you in a while/a long time

It’s been a ‘coons age - a long time

Like Carter has pills

I’m free, white, and twenty-one!

The people rushed pell-mell for the doors.

I was in an absolute swivet.

I vouchsafed the secret to just my closest friend.

Gurl, puhlease!

Heavens to Murgatroyd

Fit as a fiddle

Cat got your tongue?

A that glitters isn't gold.

The one about having his tail between his legs.

Illegitimi non carborundum

I vote Republican because they are the fiscally responsible party!

I went in and held my head up high.

I’ll wipe the floor with you!

R18- I had a friend in Junior high and high school who’s mother who grew up in Albany New York never encountered a black person until she was 19 years old.

Sorry, my comment was meant for R18

That and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee.

Here's a dime; call someone who cares.

"Please."

"Thank you."

My quest for the callipygian ideal led me to Formaggio Kitchen where I was happy to meet Philip the cheesemonger.

Tippecanoe and Tyler too!

Well, if that don’t beat all!

I’ll have a cup of Sanka.

And I’ll have a cup of Postum.

[quote]What are some expressions you never hear anymore? "Come Hell or highwater"

That's funny. I ran across it just now.

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

(This was back when people still had enough sense to tell the difference between truth and lies.)

What was that one when Paul Murdaugh was at the hospital drunk out of his mind after killing that girl and his grandfather said he was drunk as Cooter BillyBob, but it was some other redneck name that had to be explained to the Northerns? That one probably died with him.

You better get on the stick!

You better get on the ball!

R63 Here, so close, it was Cooter Brown!

Sympathy comes between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Why don’t you get down there and lick mah balls, boy.

The monkey wrapped his tail around the flagpole, to see his asshole.

People all over the country have stopped using mother and father in a sentence. It’s only how’s your mom how’s your dad or my mom my dad or his mom his dad.

I tossed my cookies right after I finished eating.

[quote]I vote Republican because they are the fiscally responsible party!

I think they still say that. They're lying sacks of shit and they know it.

I'll brain you!..

Mildred was an old maid.

Calling people “pal”.

or "toots" (unless that's just a thing from old movies)

I beg your pardon.

Kick in the pants, talking/saying something out of school

Swell..

Skedaddle.. begone!

We cried buckets

I hope Tommy asks you to the prom . He's such a DREAMBOAT.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

How do ya like them apples?

R33 Your money’s on the dresser, Chocolate

Groovy

“Go to the back of the bus!”

Not a very new idea for a thread, is it?

My mother to my sister who was late walking home from the mall: "Get in this car so I can snatch you bald-headed!"

Land sakes!

Madonna is hot!

“Popular film director Barbra Streisand!”

These bills are gonna send me to the poorhouse!

Egad!

I'm going to the john.

My grandmother's favorite: "JesusMaryAndJoseph". She would say it so fast I thought it was a swear word.

Gas, grass or ass. Nobody rides for free.

"Pay through the nose." (I still use it, but I'm an eldergay.)

Hung like an Arab stallion.

I never hear anyone being described as voluptuous these days.

You’re all wet.

Dry up.

He’s busier than a one-armed paper hanger.

Judas H. Priest!

Lemme tell ya, I could read his beads...

Live and let live To each his own

"Look what the cat dragged in."

"Home, James"

"And Bob's your Uncle."

"It's snowing down south."

"Johnny's out of his box."

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

"She's a sweet patootie."

Jeepers creepers…

He’s got a helluva one-eyed wiggling Welshman!

As shucks! Holy moly! What the Sam Hill?

Whoa, Nellie!

Katie, bar the door!

I still use some of these.

A place for everything. Everything in its place.

Far out

He/She’s a fox!

Simmer down now!

Bogus

Everything’s copacetic

[quote]Calling people “pal”.

It's bro and dude now - and gurl, of course.

R114 reminded me of this >

Where's the beef?

[quote]Simmer down now!

Cheri also said, "Simmer Donna!"

He/she is easy on the eyes.

You're a pain in the chops.

I'm busting my chops.

Don’t take any wooden nickels!

from England, with love:-

He's a hellofafella!

He's very with-it.

Goodtime gal.

Bachelor girl.

The new one from the Supremes really "knocks me out!"

I've forgotten me knitting.

Great - isn't it!

Extension phone.

Party line.

That chick is easy!

Have made the Xeroxes?

The American Dream.

"That night, my dick was harder than Chinese arithmetic!"

He’s a FOX 🦊

I remember the girls in my junior high school saying that about Bucky dead who is on the New York Yankees in 1979.

Bucky Dent - I’m lazy so I used Siri.

This Hudson is still in apple pie working order!

You're such a wet blanket!

Knee high to a grasshopper - someone is young

^ you don’t need to explain what the phrase means…

If it were any more obvious it would bite you in the ass…

R135 people commonly misused it to mean short. It was a reference to age.

Conniption fit.

Dry up! so short and to the point.

Why don't each and everyone of you DRY UP!

Drop dead!

Now I use drop dead fairly often, as needed of course.

As queer as a three-dollar bill

Light in his loafers

Confirmed bachelor

Lavender marriage

^ Pillow biter

Sniffing pickles

I don’t mind PB. I like to refer to certified bttms that way to other ‘mos. Always hated SP…not deeply offensive just don’t like vinegar.

Sniffing pickles? Is that sometimes mistaken for Pinched Sphincter Syndrome?

Make love not war.

"How do you do? "I do very well, thank you."

Skedaddle

Bump on a log

Dipsomaniac

Tosspot

"I need to cash a check."

"To see a man about a horse."

"Ridden hard and put back wet."

A "spigot" for a faucet

A "spider" for a frying pan

mighty white of you!

[quote]A "spider" for a frying pan

I've never heard of that, Charlie. And I believe I am elderer than thou. This is the only cooking "spider" with which I'm familiar. Mine has a bamboo handle.

He’s an invert.

They finally nabbed him. They're gonna send him up the river for his dastardly deeds.

say, brotha'

jive turkey

jive-talking

aww sooky sooky

Can you dig it?

stop dipping in my Kool-Aid

Carry on without me. I’m going to spend a penny.

"That's the way the cookie crumbles."

"Go jump in a lake!"

"Go take a long walk off a short pier!"

Well, THAT’S a fine how do you do!

Wellll , Doggie!

May I please have a second helping of your delicious cod loin with tomato sauce and prunes?

R147, my Mom told me that her grandmother (1878-1956) called it that. She was a farmer's wife (a farmer too, I should say). I first heard the expression on a a cooking show on a local PBS station. The German-accented chef cooked Colonial era recipes on an open hearth. The "spider" was a frying pan with four long prongs as legs to go over the open fire. When I watched the show with my Mom, that's when she told me her grandmother called it that. I guess she used the term growing up using wood or coal bearing stoves.

From the looks of it, it makes sense.

Go play on the freeway!

Chop Chop !

Sock it to me

Higgeldy piggedly

Land O Goshen

Democracy

I'll see you then, if the good Lord's willing and the crick don't rise.

Hot Diggety!

also

Hot Diggety Dog!

Work like Blacks.

Power to the People

Gee your hair smells terrific!

How much is that doggie in the window?

I was Shanghaid!

Jew him down.

He gypt me!

That’s the way the mop flops.

Ni**er in the wood pile.

My nephews are quite the rapscallions.

The beautiful Georgina Chapman

Were you raised in a barn?

He’s a tall drink of water

Seconds?

My dad is 71 and he uses the word ‘saucer’ for a small dish. I always thought that sounded very sophisticated.

Your father sounds saucy 😈

And he is right, if the small dish fits a cup….that word is still widely in use.

I’ll be there with Bells on!

It’s time to climb the wooden hill.

Indian Giver

You bet your bippy!

I graduated from high school in 74.

Stay woke my brother.

Finders keepers losers weepers.

Don’t be square.

Watch out for the man.

Pass me that “J”. Got any doobs?

Bum a cig.

Gimmie some skin.

It’s better than “a turd in a punch bowl”.

Meet ya in the can.

I’ll be there presently.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Drop the wife and kids off at the pool.

I think it's a euphemism for pooping.

Sweating like a hooker in church.

"Like the wreck of the Hesperus" to mean "very untidy" or "in a ruined state".

See a penny pick it up and all day you’ll have good luck.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Shiver me timbers.

I’m so dry I’m spitting cotton!

Get me a pencil, I need to dial the phone!

Caterwampus

Okey-dokey

Tell it to the Marines

She's no better than she needed to be

Good night nurse!

[quote] You bet your bippy!

I’d classify that more as a catchphrase from a tv show than a real expression.

You’re funnier than a broken crutch.

It makes no never mind.

Cutting class.

Making a big to-do.

You’re such a rascal.

So hot to trot.

All that and a bag of chips.

Shipshape and Bristol fashion

Expressions I don’t hear 👂 directed towards me anymore-

You’re HOT 🥵

You’re Sexy

'Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up the fastest.'

Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.

You Bleeding Wankah.

“The thin edge of the wedge”

Something that might seem minor now, but which is the start of something larger and more harmful.

“Get down off the cross. We need the wood.”

My mother, escalating.

'Wild horses couldn't drag me...'

Right on man Far out

“Babe, I want us to use protection for the time being…”

SHAME

SHAME

'You've got curlers in your hair!

"Let's blow this popsicle stand!" "I'll drink to that." "That's a bunch of poppycock."

Cool beans

Groovy

Talk to the hand, ‘cause the face don’t understand!

She's a stone cold fox!

Keep on truckin!

What a spaz!

I love ORIENTAL food.

23 Skidoo.

I never heard it called "Oriental food".

[quote]R217: I never heard it called "Oriental food".

The term 'oriental' was common in foods until the 1980s, when it began to be gradually phased out. Still, it pops up in places. Maruchan Ramen marketed 'Oriental Flavor' until only a couple of years ago, when they finally rebranded it 'Soy Flavor.' Top Ramen might still use it, I don't know.

"Clambake" a gathering or event that does not necessarily involve clams, lobster, corn, seaweed or even a beach. While shellfish may or may not be featured, alcohol will be supplied.

The Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament pairing golf pros with Hollywood actors was originally known as Crosby's Clambake, singer Bing Crosby having initially organized the event in the 1930's.

[quote]"Clambake" a gathering or event that does not necessarily involve clams, lobster, corn, seaweed or even a beach. While shellfish may or may not be featured, alcohol will be supplied.

Kind of a "disappoint."

Haven’t got a pot to piss in

"Diss," short for disrespect. Thank God, because I hate that word.

"Where's today's newspaper ?"

"That's a bunch of 'who-shot-John' "

"You ate the steak, now you have to pay for it."

These phrases live on in Judge Judy world.

"I have to go kiki."

"I need to heat up my hot wax. It's time to trim my mugsy."

"Run the sweeper over the carpets, will you? I'm expecting a gentleman caller."

DIAL this number.

"Don't give me lines!"

"What's all the Chazerai?!?!"

"Tell me Harry left me enough insurance for me to die in my own condo, surrounded by white help!"

"Off to see a man about a horse" morphed into "Off to see my probation officer" by the late 90s and early 2000s

R218 No doubt you're right. I wasn't saying food products didn't use the term "oriental". I was saying I never heard the specific term, "Oriental food."

My special lady

Half-past a monkey’s ass—a quarter to his balls.

There’s a place in France where they don’t wear pants; they just wear grass to cover their ass.

She looks like a Siberian whore…

Alternatively:

She’s a three dollar hooker…

"Assassin!!"

Don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night, Ward?

She’s on him like white on rice

R219 Let’s blow this clambake!

See you later alligator.

▲ And the response,

'After a while, crocodile.'

No way Jose!

How much is that doggie in the window?

Let's blow this popsicle stand.

She was working like a Jamaican! (As in, Loretta worked at the accounting firm from 7am to 8pm during tax season in April.)

Don’t have a cow.

Slap me five

Well Missy, Would you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge if your friends did?!

Brother, can you spare a dime?

The phrase "Is it in yet?" will soon disappear.

There's something to be said for dirty sex...

Counting Sheep

Oh, horsefeathers!

Fiddle Sticks !

"Tighter than Dick's hat band."

That's malarkey.

Shit or get off the pot.

[quote]Expressions You Don't Hear Anymore

"What a great thread, OP."

[quote] Shipshape and Bristol fashion

Here’s one we still hear a lot: eat dog turds, Defacto.

Slick as a whistle ……… Flim Flam Artist

You're full of baloney.

It’s piss or get off the pot.

A wooden nickel, two thin dimes and a red cent.

Catch you on the flip side!

Turning tricks

"Burn the witch!"

Plastic - as in phony people

"Alexis! What are you doing here?"

"The battle for Ewing Oil."

"Poor Val."

"Falcon Crest is mine!"

It's must-see TV night!

ALL ASHORE WHO'S GOING ASHORE!

Womanizer

Adultress

Or rather, "adulteress"

"What a fag!"

Belt and suspenders - having a back up safety device No such thing as a free lunch It’s in the ice box Fill it up with unleaded Start with a fresh slate Check the gin mills

Oops -

Belt and suspenders - having a back up safety device

No such thing as a free lunch It’s in the ice box

Fill it up with unleaded Start with a fresh slate

Check the gin mills

Belt and suspenders - having a back up safety device

No such thing as a free lunch

It’s in the ice box

Fill it up with unleaded

Start with a fresh slate

Check the gin mills

Paper or Plastic?

"Hey, man, want to meet up? I'm very generou$."

Used to hear that a lot on the gay sites until around age 25, then never again!

Yahtzee!

Balderdash!

"Who left the phone off the hook?!"

Heavens to Betsy.

Well, that's a fine how do you do (or "...a fine kettle of fish").

He's a long drink of water.

Isn't that grand!

"We gladly accept checks or cash."

Putting the cat out for the night.

"It's Sunday, the stores aren't open."

What does that have to do with the price of beans?

Do my eyes lie or do I see a common strumpet standing before me? Get thou to thine chamber and make thouself presentable for your suitor before he calls!

No fats, no fems, no Asians!!

"Do you have a condom?"

"You have great tits! Do a little turn for me and I'll get your new hire paperwork started."

"useless as a tit on a boar"

R 272. ‘BELT AND SUSPENDERS’ is used in the legal world every fuckin’ day

R289. The phrase is ´tits on a bull´…

Bull is more emphatic than boar…the more you know 💫

“That’ll hold me ‘til I can get to a diner”

Said at the end of a big meal

Children are to be seen & not heard.

Silence is golden.

Confirmed Bachelor.

Mentally Retarded

R291 Your both dumb cunts. It’s tits on a boy.

R291 please Google your phrase and the phrase quoted earlier…I’m 99.999% sure that you’ll fall short in that regard.

Please let us know she your search results prove us incorrect. Much obliged.

Meant for R298 …fat fingers…yet the point taken remains: …please Google your phrase and the phrase quoted earlier…I’m 99.999% sure that you’ll fall short in that regard.

Please let us know if ever your search results prove us incorrect. Much obliged.

R300 Don’t blame your fingers blame your intellect. Now eat my ass.

Ahh—so you have nothing to back it up. Ok-/good to know.

R302 Darnit you got me. Let me stop being ignorant and manic. I’m sorry.

I'm bushed.

Ice cream soda

Paper drive! Papers on the curb!

For R306

My 6th grade teacher was very competitive… she made sure our classroom (Room 3) won the school paper drives.

Cotton picken

Stop acting like a girl

What would Jesus do

Cotton picking!

Alt: Cotton pickin’!

He's a SISSY!

I got to second base with her.

Knee-high to a tall indian.

this is the phrase used down south where my relatives are from

Useless as a chocolate teapot.

This meal is

ON THE HOUSE

R315 you still hear that when extremely long wait times for the meal or just poor service/miscommunications.

The furnace is out of coal.

Bosoms

A friend of my parents said the phrase incorrectly. She would say "useless as tits on a snake" but I like it better than "useless as tits on a boar hog or bull".

"He's as gay as paint"

I'll FUCK HIM WHERE HE BREATHES!

The Hershey Highway

He's a bit

LIGHT IN THE LOAFERS

"Those moccasins never touched the ground"

[quote]I went in and held my head up high. —Anonymous

R50, I prefer my late Mom's great Aunt Cora in South Carolina who would tell Mama "Jes' heist your head, girl, and walk big."

Chinese Corona Virus

“What city please?”

When we were bad, mom used to call us “ little dickens”. My sibs call there kids in a similar situation “little shit heads”.

Non smoking section?

My mom used to say “You little bugger.”

When pets were euthanized it was referred to as "put to sleep".

A puddle of trouble.

Is there a doctor in the house?!

Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.

I wonder if parents still talk about "the birds and the bees" to their kids.

Rape is never funny, unless you’re raping a clown.

Eldergay here. When I was growing up, the plastic thing you gave crying babies to quiet them down was called a "nipple". You can use whatever uptight puritanical euphemism you like, eg. pacifier, binky, etc., but it's still a nipple. Everybody has nipples. No need to be prudish about them.

Mad as a wet hen.

Cooty protection

Jinx, you owe me a Coke.

Don’t worry, I’ll pull out.

Your mother wears Army boots.

Bug juice

(New England)

Iron-poor blood (Geritol)

Groovy

Full-figured gal (Playtex) (Jane Russell)

Jane Russell

“And the winner is...”

R345 ?????????????

So’s your old man.

R346 the old Oscar announcement used for decades vs. the newer & required “the Oscar goes to…”.

R346 You make me feel old.

I was just reading about how Alan Carr, who was producer of the infamous Snow White/Rob Lowe Oscar broadcast, was responsible for changing the slogan to “And the Oscar goes to...” I have always hated that change. After all, the Oscars are a competition, and there is a winner of an Oscar, so why not call the person the winner? And those of us who grew up with the phrase, “And the winner is...” will never forget it. I think a book about the Academy Awards even used the phrase as its title.