Re: Funny/old-time sayings - do you say any?

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My Mom still asks for "high test" gasoline instead of Premium or whatever. Then, and this is the kicker, she'll add in "unleaded please".

UNLEADED?!!!

I still call Costco Price Club and I still call NUMC Nassau County Medical Center lol. It will always be the Medical Center!

I can't really think of anything else.

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We grew up calling conditioner creme rinse, my mother still calls it that.

My sister and I also always say "geez louise".

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My grandmother used to say "Hot Burny, Burny" if something was too hot and I find myself saying that a lot and I even have DH saying it.

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My mom still says creme rinse and my dad still says dungarees.

My mom also will say "they are going together or they go steady" when talking about people who are dating/in relationships.

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When we're hanging out, my Grampa says we're "dorkin around"

I always say:

it's six eggs to one half dozen

A person we don't like is called a "bugaboo"

Bees knees

its hotter than a whorehouse

dumb as a box of rocks

I see said the blind man to his deaf wife

Not my first rodeo

Lie like a rug

colder than a witch's titt

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I still call it cremem rinse.
I also call the remote a channel selector.

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I'll still say "clicker" instead of "remote" once in a while. Ours really used to click.

For Nassau landmarks, I will use old names. Mid-Island Mall, Mid-Island Hospital, Nic-Mick (NCMC/NUMC), there's a restaurant in Levittown that hasn't been Caruso's since the early 80's but I still call it that.

Phrases:

Pee like a racehorse

Beat you like a redheaded stepchild (have NO idea where that came from)

Squeaky wheel gets the grease

Peachy keen jelly bean

Hotter than Hades

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Putting the cart before the horse

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My grandma says "Oh fiddlesticks!" when she gets frustrated. I think its hilarious! And she calls the fridge the "ice box"

My mom also calls jeans dungarees.

I still call a butt a "heiney" or "coolie" and DH looks at me like I have 8 heads

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Posted by McLovin

My grandma says "Oh fiddlesticks!" when she gets frustrated. I think its hilarious! And she calls the fridge the "ice box"

My mom also calls jeans dungarees.

I still call a butt a "heiney" or "coolie" and DH looks at me like I have 8 heads

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my mother is the queen of this, she still says:

clicker-for remote
earl-for oil
terlet bowl-for toilet bowl (this one annoys MEEEE)
dungarees-jeans
kotex-for any feminie product, lmao

im tryin to think..thers a LOT

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I always call my tv shows my "programs".

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I still call DVDs videos sometimes--so stuck in my mind.

Six of one, half a dozen of another

Geez Louise

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"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

"You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a _________"

And finally, an example used in context:

"I haven't had McDonalds SINCE GRANT TOOK RICHMOND."

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I say that I am "taping my tv show" even though we have a dvr!

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My students are always over my sayings...

When I teach history I'll use...

"While the cats away (mother country) the mice will play (colony)"

"The squeaky wheel gets the oil"

I think half of the conversations I had with my grandmother and dad were "sayings"...

I use so many of the above and am so familar with them I can't even think of them...

one of my favs from Grandma...

"S/He needs to take a long walk off a short pier"

I have so many more but after two glasses of wine I'm

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Only in Yiddish

Ferbissiner punim
Monit tsuris
Mishpucha
Machatunim

ETA:

Alter Cocker

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Is is possible I read this entire post and nobody else's mom says "Slacks" for dress pants???
She is also big on Dungurees

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suitcases are "valices" according to my grandpa.

Instead of saying, my friend is coming to visit, I'll say my girlfriend is coming in. All my friends are my "girlfriends'.

ohh... I went to call 411 to get the number to call for broadway show tickets. I asked for "ticketron" and the operator started laughing. She said- you mean ticketmaster. I always call it ticketron.

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Six of one, half a dozen of another-- my mom says it all the time, I say it now and people are like WHAT?, I don't get it

I still sometimes say Lerner instead of NY & Co....

DVR is still Tivo to me.....lol

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Posted by ChrisDee

Is is possible I read this entire post and nobody else's mom says "Slacks" for dress pants???
She is also big on Dungurees

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