Old Timey Phrases That You Would Like To See Come Back

"Leave her be!"

"I feel so gay!"

"Well, I never!"

"Why, I oughta...!

Isn’t it boor, OP, not bore?

"Fiddlesticks!"

What's-his-chops

I think you're swell!

"Well, I like your nerve!"

"Say, why don't you get wise to yourself?"

"Was my face red!"

"Why, that's just lousy!"

"What a louse!"

And how!

Cute as a bug's ear

"She's a real gal about town, see? She's loose, I'm tellin' ya!"

"You have to use a condom."

I don't give a hoot.

You're such a wiseacre

"What a floozy! A regular strumpet!"

"Why, this science stuff is even more convincing than my church!"

A bun in the oven

"Now listen here, Bub. I don't mind takin' up the tuchus, see, but ya gotta lick it first, and keep the noise down so that the old lady doesn't hear while she's knitting upstairs."

[quote]Isn’t it boor, OP, not bore?

I think you are right.

"Hello? Clara? Yes, it's Dolly. No complaints over here, Clara. Listen, sorry to give ya the bum's rush, but would you be a doll and ring up Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand lickety split? Seems we just dropped some kinda bomb on Japan and they're sayin' the war's over! What a gay day!"

R5 I'm not sure which is correct - either one works!

"If she's the bees knees, then you, Darlin', are the pussy's lips!"

Operator, get me the police.

That's a bunch of malarkey.

You’re a chippy oik and I’ve had a belly full of you!

You pretentious pifler!

This song is full of them! It's about a woman who fell in love with a guy who she's about to dump because of his excessive use of annoying slang terms. It's interesting that some of the slang is remembered and some is not. Anyway, the narrator of this song is a prototypical DLer, throwing away a relationship because she hates the way the guy speaks.

Lyrics:

Finally found a fella almost completely divine

But his vocabulary is killin this romance of mine

We get into an intimate... situation

And then begins this Romeo's conversation

He says murder, he says, every time we kiss

He says murder, he says, at a time like this

He says murder, he says, is that the language of love

He says, solid, he says, takes me in his arms

And says, solid, he says, meaning all my charms

He says, solid, he says, is that the language of love?

He says, chick chick, you torture me

Zoom, are we livin?

I'm thinkin of leaving him flat

He says, dig dig the jumps

The old ticker is giving

He can talk plainer than that

He says, murder, he says, every time we kiss

He says, murder, he says, keep it up like this

He says, murder, he says, in that impossible tone

We'll bring on nobody's murder

But his own

He says, Jackson, he says, and my name's Marie

He says, Jackson, he says, shoot the snoot for me

He says, Jackson, he says, is that the language of love?

He says, mmmhmm, when he likes my hat

He says, tsk tsk, what the heck is that?

He says, woo hoo! he says, is that the language of love?

He says hep hep with helium

Now babe, we're cookin

Another expression's too it

He says, we're in the groove

And the groove is good lookin

Sounds like his uppers don't fit!

He says, murder, he says

Every time we kiss

He says, murder, he says

Keep it up like this

In that, murder, he says

In that impossible tone

We'll bring on nobody's murder

But his own

Mayest thou perish in an oleaginous conflagration!

You thought?

Well, you know what thought did!

Fuss budget

Conniption fit

Scalawag

You’re aces with me.

"Chuck you, Farley!"

Jesus , Mary and Joseph! What catholic women would say when I was a kid which translated to Fuck!

She thinks her shit don't smell.

"I'm feeling very madcap today!"

"Have you no shame?"

Seems like shame is something of the past. What a shame!

“Marital aid”

"My stars!"

Heavens to Betsy!

"The Orientals," "the Coloreds," "the Queers."

The (flying) fickle finger of fate.

What a lark. Isn't that a gas!

Wow you look sharp!

"Get off the cross. We need the wood."

Naughty bits

Hair pie

I'll take a gander.

"What's buzzin', cousin?"

"What's knittin', kitten?"

Move it along toots.

jive turkey

"Bob's your uncle."

"You've snapped your cap."

"What a Dame!"

"Let's 86 this joint."

"Give him the bum's rush."

"Get him on the horn."

"What a wet sock!"

"Put the kibosh on that!"

Nacreous layer of permacum

as queer as Dick's hatband

How dare you

And how!

Say. . .Look at the getaway sticks on that tomato!

Why I oughtta . . .

LOL R58 that made me giggle. I have never heard of "getaway sticks" but "getaway sticks on that tomato" is an adorable and surreal image.

"A nice set of pins"

Heavens to Betsy!

I'M DAMNED MAD!

Malarkey.

"A nice set of pins"

The Daily Mail still uses this, R61.

Simply saying "bullshit!" instead of "I call bullshit!"

Figawi (pronounced Fuh-ga-wee, not Fi-ga-wi or Fig-a-wi or Fig-awee) and once used for more than the name of a race.

Regional, to be sure, but I hadn't heard it for years until this year's race was cancelled.

"Built like a brick shithouse."

“Arrange to have your son spend some time with the priest. That’ll set him straight.”

Bearded clam gay as a picnic basket

R60–credit to Patton Oswalt who would amuse his late wife by talking like Edward G. Robinson.

My stars and garters!

Dressed up like a Band Box.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!

Y'all know.

He's light in his loafers

Burning the midnight oil

Why she's homely as a mud fence.

“Absolutely ghastly!”.

Groovy.

Daddy-o.

"I'm going to give him the business"

You're such a card, you need to be dealt with.

Judas Priest!

Ha ha ha, that's rich.

Oh, yeah? You and what army?

What a drip.

Ain't that the limit?

Man, that really swings!

My dogs are barkin'.

No foolin'?

Aw, can the corn.

Quit makin' with the chin music.

Peachy.

You're a peach.

I used to love the way Ethel would always say "honestly".

Holy cats!

The ‘I’m calling bullshit’ trend always makes me want to shout out ‘Oh bullshit, over here! We’re calling for some bullshit over here!’

Tippecanoe and Biden too!

Fairy

Don't forget me, R85!

That's the bee's knees!

Rastus, fetch me my smelling salts!

I'll be a monkey's uncle!

Confirmed bachelor

Dagnabbit.

The rabbit died.

They know each other...in the Biblical sense.

I’m not saying he’s handsome but he’s not the dog-faced boy.

She’s got a face that would stop a Mack truck.

She’s a real looker.

He has more dollars than sense.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

When they were handing out looks he/she was in the wrong line.

Simple chronic halitosis? His breath could make paint on a wall curdle!

"Oh horse feathers....."

I recall an employment counselor gay as a three dollar bill (see, there's another one!) who would say that, and it sounded like steam essss...cape....ing!

“How do you do?”

May I push in your stool?

The heebie-jeebies

1940's: "I'm going to see a man about a horse" - to excuse one's exit, usually to go to the bathroom

1980's: "I'm going to see my probation officer" - to excuse one's exit, usually to go to the bathroom to do some blow.

Lea Delaria is seen here "cookin' with gas" while looking pretty "mannish"

Skedaddle now!

“See ya later, alligator!”

The deuce you say!

Offer thy orifice.

Up the duff

like white on rice

Zooks!

Heavens to murgatroid!

23 Skidoo!

Let's get out while the goin is good.

It was a blast!

Acid is groovy

Far out man.

Do you party?

Let's book.

son of a jackal

you're a blackguard

his nether regions

they split-up, She had to split.

hanger (s) on

Oh you kid!

Average age on DL: 83.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Oh, fame, fame... thou glittering bauble.

I'll kick you right in the behumpas.

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

R119 = Cyril Ritchard.

Ain't that a kick in the head!

“Rode hard and put away wet”

“Make it happen, cap’n”

“A face made for radio”

“Twinkletoes”

“Fink!”

“Scram!”

I feel the word “cunt“ is underused.

Especially in political discourse

You couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the bottom

balderdash

"gigglemug" a habitually smiling face.

Oh Wise Guy Eh

"Let's go out to a restaurant."

"I'll see you tomorrow at the office."

"Have to go, got to catch the train home!"

"I'm employed."

"Donald Trump, that washed up TV reality dirtbag and failed developer? Pull the other one."

'Get me a bromide...and put some gin in it!'

What a cockamamie idea!

"Oh please, my nerves !"

S/He's done gone plum loco!

I ain't never seen such gall!

It's the berries

half of these are just Briticisms still in current use

Release the Kraken!

Poppycock!

You razz my berries.

Whites Only.

Operator, get me the coast!

He's one of them funny boys!

I've got the morbs.

Don’t drop your blob.

"r3 from another thread."

Jiggery-pokery

Balderdash

Cock-a-hoop

Poppycock

I’ve got the vapors!

That should read “I have the vapors!”

Your mother wears combat boots.

We could revive any of these. The language is up to us, jive turkeys.

fell ass over teakettle

stop mollycoddling him/her

purse swinger

“That’s the berries!”

“He knows that’s just the sprat to catch the mackerel.”

"Fucketh Thou!"

"Land sakes alive"

"Well I swan"

"He can go buck a fuzzard"

“Mutual, I’m sure.” “Tall drink of water”

Give a hoot. Don't pollute.

No sweat, man

Cram it

Ah what's it to you

Let's split.

Juke joint

Aw, nuts!

And finally, all the charmingly goofy things people used to say before they were all replaced with "fuck you!":

Your mother wears army boots!

And so's your Aunt Tillie!

Eh, your father's mustache!

Go climb a tree!

Go pound sand!

Go fly a kite!

Take a powder!

Says you!

Scram!

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Fiddle Dee Dee!

You've got moxie, kid. You're really goin' places, see.

Take a long walk off a short pier

A face for radio and a voice for print

He's off pinching a loaf

...and I’m just the dame to do it!

[quote]He's off pinching a loaf

Really? I think of that as advanced millennispeak. Or cuspy Gen X.

They may use that regrettable phrase, R162, but it's absolutely not original to them. It's older than I am and I'm older than dirt.

Fair enough, I had no idea it was back in common usage.

"Get fresh with".

As in: Harvey Weinstein got fresh with some dames and now he's in the hoosegow.

Ahh, go piss up a rope!

Cry, you'll pee less.

"You, and the horse you rode in on."

"Only you can prevent forest fires."

"I may swoon!"

"That's so boss!"

"I have to cash a cheque." (Same as seeing a man about a horse)

"Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra."

"He couldn't hit the broadside of a barn."

"He's three sheets to the wind or in his cups," after having one too many snifters.

"Who's your Sheik?"

"Who's your Sheba?"

"He's a cake-eater."

"He's a confirmed bachelor."

"Go chase yourself!"

"Let's blow this popsicle stand."

"It's Jake!"

"She's on a toot."

"What a Reub."

"Looks like she's been ridden hard and put back wet."

"It's snowing down south."

"Jack's out of his box."

"Let's make Whoopee!"

Get the Old Man on the blower!

Love the thread everyone but I have to ask R172, What does “It’s Jake!” mean?

Put up yer dukes!

He went to take a shit and the hogs ate him!

Well, shit the bed and push it to the foot.

"Layaway"

"You look sharp" is antiquated. Oh my. I'm behind the times.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

"Holy Skamolie" "Darn it all anyway" "Jesus Mary and Joseph" "Christ on a cracker" "You son of a gun".

Catholic ways to avoid swearing in the 1950s. Since I swear like a sailor continuously when driving in heavy traffic, I still have to call on some of these phrases when I have a guest in my car to avoid shocking them. My mother did not allow bad language inside her house, so I still have a double vocabulary (inside and outside ways of talking).

R174, it means that

"it is Okay",

"not great but good enough"

How do you like them apples?

"Let them eat cake."

and

"Off with her head!"

R184, one of those happened before the other.

Operator , I have an emergency breakthrough call to 707/ CXXXXXC . Yes, of course it’s an emergency

[quote]How do you like them apples?

One day, my 10-year-old grandson asked me if I liked apples. I told him I did. He then farted very loudly and said, "How do you like THEM apples?" I was surprised that he even knew the expression.

[quote]"Holy Skamolie" "Darn it all anyway" "Jesus Mary and Joseph" "Christ on a cracker" "You son of a gun". Catholic ways to avoid swearing in the 1950s.

You never tried "Cheese and crackers got all muddy!" That was my dad's version of "Jesus Christ Almighty!" if his mother was around.

It's the ginchiest!

"That's fine" to mean something like "That's great" or even "wonderful."

"What's the rumpus?"

Just between you me and the gatepost . Christ on a cross for Christmas and Easter (maybe that was only my fam) At family party if someone says they need to use the bathroom , “ mention my name they’ll give u a good seat”

Sacré bleu

Heavens to Betsy

"he's rocked out" (aka crazy)

"Tell it to the Marines"

He thinks he shits Eskimo pies!

Why don't you do right

Like some other men do

Get outta here and

get me some money, too!

Schlemiel, Shlemazel

Coloreds Only.

A couple of flibbertigibbets and shirtlifters .

It's been a great disappointment to me, with the legalization of gay marriage, that the word "galimony" hasn't made a comeback.

I speak as I find!

Sock it to me.

Gag me with a spoon.

I'm HACKED OFF!

She's a real tomato!

Hell's teeth!

Well I never in all my life!

Balderdash and poppycock!

Piffle!

Beastly!

My father’s favorites:

Go play in the traffic!

Doesn’t know shit from Shinola.

“Tired and emotional” for (and from) our U.K. friends.

Get a load of fatso over there!

Sic semper tyrannis

Go outside and play! Get out the house and stop watching tv, dammit! Get some exercise.

Fresh as paint.

Gay as paint.

Let's high tail it out of here.

A pox on you and all of your ancestors.

Screw you and the horse you rode in on.

Sweet buttery Jesus.

He oughta be horsewhipped! (directed at Donald Dump)

R218. Ha-ha, Donald Dump! You are a fucking comic genius. You are funnier than if Kathy Griffin and Carrot Top had a baby and it told jokes!

You're too short for that gesture.

Simmer down, fatso—pudding day is tomorrow.

Don't say retard, they prefer being called little people.

Power to the People.

Nuts to you.

My pussy itches like a flea-bitten coyote.

Dearie

Mommie dearest.

Sweating like a hooker in church.

Horse feathers

Duck soup

Monkey business

'ludes

sopors

7-14s

"Are you on the level?" (now: "Are you shitting me?")

"She double-crossed me." (now: "She fucked me over.")

"He got mixed up with some dame." (now: "He was cunt-struck.")

"Squiffy" for being a little drunk.

"She was in the backseat. She was NUDE!"

What a day, I'm all fagged out.

"Say Mac, what's the big idea?"

Go chase yourself

"Charmed, I'm sure."

Peckerwood

Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine

He's too smart by half. He'll cut himself one day.

Stick with me kid, you'll be farting through silk.

I shall now go into the corner and pass copious amounts of wind.

Well that just dills my pickle.

You ol such-n-such!

Oh my golly gosh!

Everything is tickety boo

You're lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut.

She has her nose so high in the air she could drown in a rainstorm.

I got pinched (a speeding ticket).

Great Caesar's ghost!

Knee high to a duck.

I'ma snatch you bald-headed!!!!

Jump my bones (fuck me).

Ballin' the Jack - originally railroad engineers' slang for full speed with "Jack" being the locomotive as well as a ragtime song - that also came to mean fuck me.

"He didn't either" - meaning, no he didn't. My old aunt in Idaho says this, and it sounds cute.

Fuck me runnin’ - an old time phrase from the Deep South circa 1900.

Shaved snizz

Zounds!

cram it

I still say cram it up my ass

You really razz my berries.

Your Aunt Minnie! (a statement of disbelief my grandmother would use)

I'm ticked off.

What's your beef?

Jo Mama

“Hey, what’s in this drink?”

And no honey, it’s not a roofie.

I’m a choo choo Charlie and a class act

When cobwebs are plenty kisses are scarce

I bet I can get my hands on your feet faster than you can shove your big foot in my mouth!

“My good man!”

Bloody Hell

Damnation

Apparently the French translation of "Jesus Christ" is "Enfer and damnation", at the 2:16 mark.

Who let the dogs out?

Fuck me runnin’

Fuck me running naked.

That looks worse than a dick in a vice.

Lick the head.

Reductive (look it up)

Dead set.

He came home stoned (i.e. drunk).

A friend to all is a friend to none

Let’s get crack-a-lacking. Hey kiddo. That’s groovy Cut a hog in the ass (made a mistake) Long in the tooth (old)

Grand Central, and step on it!

All good men can tell the difference between being stoned and drunk and fuciked.

Don't spare the whip!

Well, that just razzes my berries! I'm just tickled! That's really neat! BANG. ZOOM, to the moon!

Well, that chaps my hide!

Grasp the shaft.

It's bore, not boor.

pshaw

make haste

Balderdash!

You rascal!

Hairdresser

I assume young people say "stylist".

Super.

Jump my bones!

Just the tip.

In the old days most people didn’t deep throat every cock with ease like they do now. They would protest and complain about it.

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?

Your mother's a whore.

You're on the muscle!

This thread:

"perfidious hound".

A laugh riot

Striped assed ape

Eat my shitbox!

Cheese it! The cops!

I’m sure I don’t know!

Charmed, I’m sure