Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases - Page 15

Slater · 08-22-2011, 08:22 PM

Davenport (couch)

Gemme · 08-22-2011, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

they don't have 2 nickels to rub together

You can't get blood from a turnip.

Which leads into....

I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

knee high to a grasshopper
need to go beat my face. I never use this phrase. lol

I heard 'beat my mug' more.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

<insert> is about as <insert> as the day is long.

....til the cows come home.

Ms. Meander · 08-22-2011, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slater

Davenport (couch)

Nice one!!!

jelli · 08-22-2011, 08:36 PM

"Well, I swanny."

funkyfemme · 08-23-2011, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

Fine as frog hair...

Ahhhh you beat me to it on this one. Another one of my Mom's favs.

Dean Thoreau · 08-24-2011, 04:12 PM

Time to Red the table

(means clear off the table after supper,people in my fam still say it.....)

Strappie · 08-28-2011, 08:56 AM

My old boss you to say to everyone that walked in the door and said... How are you today....

He's reply...

If I was any better I'd have to sit on my hands to keep them from clapping!!

I must admit I do use this "quote" on occasion! *lmccao

Ms. Meander · 08-28-2011, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Strappie

My old boss you to say to everyone that walked in the door and said... How are you today....

He's reply...

If I was any better I'd have to sit on my hands to keep them from clapping!!

I must admit I do use this "quote" on occasion! *lmccao

I don't know how "old-fashioned" this is but it is disturbingly hilarious!

JAGG · 09-16-2011, 10:00 AM

This 1 isn't really old fashion but it made me laugh out loud when I thought of it.
" I'm rubber you're glue, anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you." ;-)

JoSchmooze · 09-16-2011, 10:53 AM

Pocketbook (purse)....
I always get a ration of sh*t from
friends when I use that one....

JAGG · 09-16-2011, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slater

Davenport (couch)

My grandmother called the sofa a davenport. We would mock her and call it a diving board and take off running and dive onto it. When she wasn't watching of course. Which reminds me, don't ever dive face first onto a sofa with those clear plastic covers on them. Always hit shirt or socks first. When you hit face (skin)first you tend to stop way faster than you were expecting to. Don't ask me how I know.;-)

deathbypoem · 09-02-2013, 01:42 PM

I forgot what I was going to say; must've been a lie.

It's colder than a well diggers ass crack, out here.

"mickey mouse around"

03-23-2015, 09:00 AM

Cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. Shortened to 'Brass monkey weather.'

Colder than a witch's tit.

Crikey Moses!

Get theeself up th'wood'n 'ill [Translation: get yourself up stairs]

Kätzchen · 03-23-2015, 09:31 AM

"Up yonder"

"Out on the back 40"
(Riding the property line)

"Keeping company"
(Courting)

"Oh, my stars!"

Or...

"Goodness, Gracious"

GeorgiaMa'am · 03-23-2015, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daktari

Colder than a witch's tit.

Colder than a witch's tit in a brass brassiere. (My grandma felt the more colorful a saying, the better.)

Birdgit! (My grandma's most succinct saying.)

homoe · 03-23-2015, 03:41 PM

Icebox

Peddle-pushers

Smitten

homoe · 03-23-2015, 04:17 PM

Rouge

Pancake Makeup

Dungarees

galoshes

Hollylane · 03-23-2015, 06:03 PM

Heard today... "Happier than a frog in a mosquito patch!"

C0LLETTE · 03-23-2015, 06:24 PM

"... please, allow me. If you don't mind, I really would prefer not to go "dutch" ..."

Bèsame* · 03-23-2015, 10:15 PM

oh I see, said the blind man

08-22-2011, 08:22 PM	#281
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08-22-2011, 08:36 PM	#284
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08-24-2011, 04:12 PM	#286
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09-16-2011, 10:00 AM	#289
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09-16-2011, 10:53 AM	#290
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08-28-2011, 08:56 AM	#287
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09-02-2013, 01:42 PM	#292
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03-23-2015, 09:00 AM	#293
Daktari Guest Tournaments Won: 1 Posts: n/a My Photo Gallery	Cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. Shortened to 'Brass monkey weather.' Colder than a witch's tit. Crikey Moses! Get theeself up th'wood'n 'ill [Translation: get yourself up stairs]

03-23-2015, 09:31 AM	#294
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