s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
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Anonymous
I need to know more about this one-is it an "if that don't take all/pin my ears back" sort of thing? If you just made it up my hat's off to you. |
Anonymous
| I'm 55 and say so many of these (when I'm not cursing, which I do fluently). At work my go-tos are "dagnabbit" and "oh, horsefeathers" when something is going badly and 'nifty neato peachy keen' when they are good. |
Anonymous
that is adorable |
Anonymous
| My dad used to say "Holy Smokes" all the time. Often I see something now and in my mind can hear him clear as day saying that - makes me smile and miss him. |
Anonymous
| Beggars can’t be choosers! |
Anonymous
| A watched pot never boils! |
Anonymous
| Raining cats and dogs |
Anonymous
| Instead of “Jesus Christ!”, I’ve gotten into the habit of saying “cheese & crackers!”, deployed with the same amount of exasperation as the former expression. |
Anonymous
| put a sock in it |
Anonymous
LDS culture has a particularly strong set of syllabic parallels for swear words. |
Anonymous
| I had a friend who was the editor of city newspaper who always used to say, “Great Caesar’s ghost” when anything went wrong…. |
Anonymous
To be fair, one of his star reporters kept disappearing when there was a big story to cover. |
Anonymous
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Thundering 🌀 Typhoon!
Billions of Blistering Barnacles! |
Anonymous
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Finder’s keepers, Losers weepers!
Liar, liar, pants on fire!! |
Anonymous
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See you later, alligator!
In a while, crocodile! |