Phrases/expressions you don't hear anymore

[Disney Ella]

Whenever we were hurt, either physically or our feelings, and we cried about it, my mother would say "Stop crying, you'll be a lady before your mother is." I haven't the faintest idea what that means. Can anyone help?

I probably would have stopped crying because I would be trying to figure out what she meant by that! I never knew the real meaning of "drop a dime" either, but by the time I was using pay phones, they cost 25 cents.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Thought of some more my granny used to say:

If I asked where someone was: "She went downtown to smoke her pipe and she won't be back until Saturday night".

If I was being bad she threatened to stand me on my head.

She used Goodnight as an exclamation.

A couch/sofa was a davenport.

And she always said, "If a frog had wings..."

 

[CupcakeKelly]

Growing up my mom and grandma used to say "stop farting around" when they thought we were wasting time. With their awful Boston accents it was more like "stop FAH-tin' around"

My coworker used the word scuttlebutt recently. Although he used it totally wrong, I can appreciate that I hadn't heard the word in a long time

 

[Liberty Belle]

Growing up my mom and grandma used to say "stop farting around" when they thought we were wasting time. With their awful Boston accents it was more like "stop FAH-tin' around"

My coworker used the word scuttlebutt recently. Although he used it totally wrong, I can appreciate that I hadn't heard the word in a long time

Mine said that, too! Or fiddle-farting around. And, "you're as slow as Christmas."

 

[Liberty Belle]

One more - if we asked her what was for dinner or what was inside the oven, etc. she'd saying something that sounded like "kinder frogginsprank in car." Or something like that. lol I think it means "a child's question sprinkled with sugar." Her parents were German.

 

[Imhere]

"She's a handsome woman."

 

[FireDancer]

"No". It is a very useful single word phrase not enough people hear any longer. Here is a real world Disney example where "no" is the only acceptable answer yet it is not used:

"My special snowflake wants to just ride a ride over and over and over while every other non-spoiled snowflake waits their turn like they are supposed to. Can I have a pass to allow them to do that?"

There are so many times in our over-coddling society that I wish no was screamed in the face of people.

 

[goofinoff]

"Thank you" and "You're welcome"

 

[ChiCat]

I've never heard anyone say it except in movies but I freaking love it!!! "That dog don't hunt". It cracks me up.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

My grandmother's favorites: How do you like them apples and Tables are made for glasses not (rhymes with glasses and it's what you sit on).

 

[WDWJDS]

"I'm gonna go make groceries", meaning go food shopping. I tell that to my mom, and she gets a tickle out of it. Hey, that's another phrase!

 

[Alsobrook]

"Been rode hard and put up wet."

"That went over about as well as a fart in church."

"Don't know his *** from a hole in the ground."

"Dumber than a bag of hammers."

"Stinks so bad, it could knock a buzzard off a gut wagon."

"Your mother could get lost in a phone booth."

"Sweatin' like a sinner in church." or it's related "Sweatin like a ***** in church."

"Useless as a screen door on a submarine."

"Madder than a wet hen."

"Hotter than a goat's *** in a pepper patch."