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Bees Knees.
Bees Knees.
SLANG 100 YEARS AGO
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My mom, when referring to a person that was a loser would say: “That guy is a real drip”.
My dad would refer to auto accidents as being “stacked up”.
My dad would refer to auto accidents as being “stacked up”.
Ogandydancer
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I used to hear flibberty jibberty which I took to mean mean someone is flighty or not a very steady person in things they do
My grandmother used to affectionately call us kids fuddy duddy when we did something silly or needed correcting.
mafuta54
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Horse Feathers!
BearBio
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The Irish are not so polite!
"NINA"= No Irish Need Apply (In hiring adds in newspapers)
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Some people don't know ____ from shoe polish!
My FIL had one I have never heard anywhere else. He was a finish carpenter and when something did not fit together well it was "like socks on a rooster".
My old Bosses Dad used to say' They, He, She, Them, don't know SheepsXXX from Arbuckles coffee.'
MY dad would use the term hes a pinch Mcgregor
I’ve always heard it used with Shinola, which after googling it, I found out is a defunct brand of shoe polish. The things I learn here!
He eats cheese and drinks Neverleak.
I'm busier than a cranberry merchant.
They're selling like hotcakes.
I'm wired up backwards. My feet smell and my nose runs.
Faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Sh-- in one hand and wish in the other. See which one fills up faster.
He/she is so ugly he/she could bite a pumpkin through a fence.
He's as dumb as an oyster.
Pretty is as pretty does.
Tread carefully, young man.
Sh-- fire and save matches.
Those are all sayings I remember my grandparents using. They were born in the early 1910s.
I'm busier than a cranberry merchant.
They're selling like hotcakes.
I'm wired up backwards. My feet smell and my nose runs.
Faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Sh-- in one hand and wish in the other. See which one fills up faster.
He/she is so ugly he/she could bite a pumpkin through a fence.
He's as dumb as an oyster.
Pretty is as pretty does.
Tread carefully, young man.
Sh-- fire and save matches.
Those are all sayings I remember my grandparents using. They were born in the early 1910s.
Wdbutcher97
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Slicker than a cat's ***. Colder than a ditch digger's ***. Darker than ditch digger's ***. Kids today would say "ditch digger"????
It was. Navin Johnson in The Jerk did not seem to be able to tell the difference and just walked through a pile of it, and it wasn't the shinola.
