Favorite old fashioned words

[Anonymous]

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Even a blind hog sometimes finds the acorn.

Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish.

Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really use it, but I love "picture" to mean "movie."

As in:

"There's a new picture showing downtown...I have to hurry to get tickets!"

Totally reminds me of my grandfather.

LOL! I love saying "program" for a tv show like my grandmother does. I'll tell DH "My program is starting!"

I also love "Jiminy Christmas!"

And my mom used to say "simmer down!" to me and my sister. I'll have to break that one out with DD soon.

I use "simmer down!" all the time with my 3 yo. I also like "pipe down" and "dreamy" (as in "he's dreamy") and use both occasionally.

One that I like but haven't used:

"I have a bone to pick with you" (courtesy of my Great Aunt Florence)

[Anonymous]

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

[Anonymous]

-Dag Nabit

-Love Bug, I use this term all the time

[Anonymous]

I love this thread.

some favorites from my grandma:

bringing coal to Newcastle= to do something unnecessary

katy, bar the door= oh, boy, look what's coming

man alive= good lord (this one I use all the time)

[Anonymous]

crazier than a shithouse rat
getting tight
cool your jets

[Anonymous]

You're a peach.

doll face

golly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really use it, but I love "picture" to mean "movie."

As in:

"There's a new picture showing downtown...I have to hurry to get tickets!"

Totally reminds me of my grandfather.

LOL! I love saying "program" for a tv show like my grandmother does. I'll tell DH "My program is starting!"

I also love "Jiminy Christmas!"

And my mom used to say "simmer down!" to me and my sister. I'll have to break that one out with DD soon.

I sometimes call TV shows stories. As in, my mom calls and asks "did I get you at a bad time?" and I say "nope, just watching my stories."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:from my grandfather - Brasafritch (no clue of spelling - this is the phonetical spelling)

from my grandma - Davenport (another name for couch/sofa)

from my other grandma - "useless as tits on a boar" (I was shocked as a kid when she would say this - I was a pastor's kid and rather sheltered)

Another one my grandfather used that has stuck (the story is he got it from his father) and been passed down "dumber than Kate Mullen". No one in the family has a clue who Kate Mullen was.

[Anonymous]

handfruit (to reference a pear, apple, or piece of fruit you ate while holding in your hand).

to the PP: my grandparents also called the couch a davenport.

[Anonymous]

Druthers! Love that one.

My parents always use fun old expressions like "so-and-so is a little long in the tooth" (meaning old)

Also "six-a-one, half dozen another" or soemthing like that. (meaning equal)

[Anonymous]

not really old fashioned, but I work with a lot of Brits and when they want to convey that two things are wildly different, they say "it's like chalk and cheese, really"

it cracks me up every time I hear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:handfruit (to reference a pear, apple, or piece of fruit you ate while holding in your hand).

to the PP: my grandparents also called the couch a davenport.

I remember reading books when I was younger that would reference a davenport. I thought it was a screened in porch. No idea why.

[Anonymous]

the cat's meow
the cat's pajamas
nifty

[Anonymous]

Swear alternatives:
Cheese and Rice
Consarnit