Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

My father's favorite sayings -

Jesus H. Christ – (As a kid i assumed H was Christ's middle initial and I asked my father what his middle name was and he said Hallowed. I remember thinking that was an odd name.)

Bob's your uncle

i don't give a flying fuck

why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

(Apparently, "flying fuck" is a very old expression dating back to about 1800. It originally appeared in a "broadside ballad" called "New Feats of Horsemanship" describing a sex act done on horseback.)

It's like pissin into the ocean to bring in the tide

pissin in the wind

I gotta piss like a race horse

any flies on you they're paying rent

bang a left, bang a right, bang a U-ie- (He was always saying to bang something)

And don't forget to use your directionals.


My mother's favs-

talk a glass eye to sleep - ( I couldn't grasp this as a 5 year old and I would hear “talk a glass Ida asleep” I had an Aunt Ida and I puzzled over the meaning of a glass Ida.)

Why, do you see a crowd around? - (My mother would always say this when I asked what was the matter or what's wrong.)

if you had a half a brain it would be lonely

if you had a half a brain you'd be dangerous

When she'd say this to me, I remember thinking that's stupid, if I had a half a brain I wouldn't be lonely or dangerous, best case scenario I'd be dead.

you smell like a french whore - (My mother would say this when she thought you were wearing too much cologne but to this day she denies saying this to her kids.)

you got a hair across your ass

you chicken shit

bird brain

ah, light dawns on marblehead - (used when someone dense finally gets it, this is pretty much exclusive to parts of Massachusetts, the Boston area, around Marblehead and it has something to do with it being the eastern most point of MA where the sun rises first. My mother loved the saying.)

two peas in a pod

something rotten in denmark

As a kid, I would say between 5 and 8, I took things quite literally. Here's a couple of typical conversation between me and my mother. Or so my mother likes to tell me to illustrate all she had to go through with me.

My mother, glaring at me and my dad, -“the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.”
Me -”How could it, unless the tree was on the top of a high mountain and the fruit rolled all the way down to the bottom or into a valley or something.”

My mother, tired of me and my questions - “Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier dear?” (my mother loves to rhyme)
Me - “I would fall in the water if I did that.”
My mother - “No flies on you.”
Me - “Because I was in the water?”
My mother - “No, because you stated the obvious. I was being sarcastic.”
Me - “So if someone tells you something that doesn't make any sense you shouldn't mention it because it's obvious?”
My mother - “It's a nice day go outside for awhile.”
Me - “It's raining.”
My mother - “Take an umbrella.”
Me - 'Not to state the obvious but you want me in water today.”

OMG, I say and/or have said sooooo many of these phrases.

We might be related.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by Gemme

OMG, I say and/or have said sooooo many of these phrases.

We might be related.

Related. Now that would be wicked pissah.

How about zit zat case closed?

Or a cock and bull story?

Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is the pope catholic?

I wonder if phrases have like an expiration date that makes them old fashioned. Some of the ones I've mentioned my parents said and I still say. I wonder when they become old fashioned?

Like maybe poppycock is old fashioned? Although it's a word my mouth enjoys saying.

[Bèsame*]

close the door! Were you born in a barn?

[JDeere]

Shit Fire and Save The Matches- my gram used to say that all the time

[TruTexan]

My cousins would say this if you stood in front of the tv...........

""You're not made of glass" "Your daddy wasn't a glass blower" ..so move your ass outta the way of the tv"

[femmeandstrong]

my mother always said ( to indicate her bill paying struggles ) -
"you can't take money from a naked man's pocket "

lol ahuh

[WildHorses]

Grandma said, " you cannot get blood from a turnip" and "for cryin' in the bucket"

[Cin]

Originally Posted by femmeandstrong

my mother always said ( to indicate her bill paying struggles ) -
"you can't take money from a naked man's pocket "

lol ahuh

Never heard that one.

To indicate her bill paying struggles my mother always said you can't get blood from a stone but I like your mother's better.