Lost Words From Our Childhood

How many sayings can you recall from your childhood?

Back in the day there was, "Heavens to Murgatroyd".
My oldest son stop by one day with a used car he had bought. I said something to him about driving a Jalopy. He said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?"
Some of the ones I remember:
"Carbon Copy"
"Hung out to dry"
"Straighten up and fly right"
"You sound like a broken record"
"A fine kettle of fish"
"I'll be a monkey's uncle"
"It's your nickel"
"See ya later, alligator"
"After while, crocodile"
Being accused of being a "Knucklehead", "Nincompoop", or a "Pill"

Ninnie is what I was called a lot lol.

Better late than never
Wathamucalic

WAZZUP

Pitching woo

six of one half dozen of another

Stop raising a stink

Hullabaloo

Can it

Upscuttale

Proud of’s

Holly Hanna

Mincing words

WAAAAZUUUUUUP

Macking (slang for making out) rofl

Laxin

Chillin like a villain

I got too many I can't post

Got a quarter?

Page me

Kicking it

1 hr photo

Someone almost posted it above. I always heard it: Better never than late.

And: Dreckly.

A man called me a week or so ago, asked if I had something, told him I did. He said, I'll send her up dreckly. First I'd heard anyone say that for ages.

Saturday morning cartoons.

You tryin to get me kicked off of here?


There are several that were very common when I grew up that would have the P C police in a tizzy.

Sharpton and Jackson would have a melt down.


Charlie

Responsibility

Six ways from Sunday
Full of (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) and vinegar
(when something has given up) it's had the green weenie

Not sure about lost words, seems like I still use most of the ones on here... and I'm only in my 30's

Here's a quarter call someone who cares.

I wish I had a nickel every time I hear that.

She's a Fox

Some lost/unneccessary phrases:

Dial the phone number.

The phone cord wont reach over here.

Stop so I can use the pay phone.

Here's 2 dollars. Go get me a gallon of gas and a pack of Salems.

Watch for spiders b4 you sit down on the outhouse seat.

That is a nice rifle Bubba's got hanging in his truck gun rack in the high school parking lot.

Cant wait to go to the drive in movie tonight.

Go look that up in the encyclopedia.

Yes sir

Yes mam

The principal has our permission to use the paddle on you.

Go get the belt

Whack (when acting up in public)

Lots of old Southern sayings I grew up with ...

"Ill turn you every which way but loose....

If they don't pay your light bill.....

Mighty white of ya ....

In a month o Sundays

Faster than you can slap a tick......"

one of my Dad's favorite admonitions to me!

fill er up and check the oil

oil can spout

lets book

he just copped those cigarettes

cop a feel

boo coo

don't sweat it

jacked up car

bell bottoms

%^* gas or grass no one rides for free

stone fox

bogus

When someone wasn't feeling good...
What's the matter with you? You got the heebie jeebies?

Choice

When being a little too loud or unruly mom would say: "quit being so rambunkious" or "stop with all the shananiguns".

Kids doing something stupid we always said, " quit being a dork".

When faced with the likelihood that someone was telling a tall tail on him, my grandpa would say, "You stepped in what?!"
Still my favorite go-to response when facing similar perfunctory, and disingenuous malfeasant utterances.
(This very statement would have surely prompted my grandpa's famous response.)

phone is busy

"2 wrongs don't make a right."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

Fiddlesticks was the go to word when something went wrong .

My dad always said if your dumb enough to get into trouble be smart enough to figure how to get out of of it.

"Couple three", I never have figured out how many Grandpa wanted when he asked for that many nightcrawlers.

Knew an older lady who if she didn't want you to know what she paid for something she would say, "It cost me a dollar three eighty".

From Laurel & Hardy: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!"

Lol
Remember the dial up internet noise

Things were just a little cheaper here., I always heard "A dollar. two, ninety-eight."



Charlie

Ghosty on 2nd.

Right on man

Far out

Dream on

Do me a solid

Psych!

Groovy man

Bogart

The Fuzz

Boob tube

Boss, and “I’m gonna Pound you”

"a horse a piece "

"Wish in one hand , Shite in the other"

both my grandmothers called it the "Boob Tube"

"burning day light"

"burning the midnight oil"

"make hay while the sun shines"

"beats a sharp stick in the eye"

" slick as snot" or slick as snot on a door knob"

"youbetcha"

"clear as mud"

" a fish in the hand" or " a fish in the hand is worth 2 on the line".

"teach a man to fish" or "give a man a fish" from "give a man a fish , feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish , feed him for a lifetime."

Dad Sayings:
A say late and a dollar short
Slickern then deer guts on a door knob

Pop Sayings:
She's wifty (not wrapped real tight (there's another saying LOL))
She's got a face that would stop a nine day clock

Mom Mom sayings:
Pete's sake
Heavens Sake
You got to jurtle it (combinations jiggle, tug, turn, wiggle)
You're giving me grey hair (I think I am the only grandchild she told that LOL)

Mom sayings:
If you break your arm don't come crying to me
GO outside and play! (no one tells kids that now)
Ebbie jeebies (being scared)

Grandma Leake:
TO each their own the old lady said, as she kissed the cow

Knock of that caterwauling or Ill give you something to cry about.
burn a fag, for have a smoke.
knock the buzzards off a gut wagon.
Jimminy Christmas
Holy smokes!

So slow, he has to speed up to stop.
So slow, we had to set stakes to see if he was moving.
So ugly when she cries, the tears run down the back of her head.
So buck-toothed, he can eat peanuts out of a pop bottle.
So ugly, he has to sneak up on a glass of water.
So ugly, when he was little they had to tie a pork chop around his neck so the dog would play with him.
So dumb, he thought manual labor was a Mexican.

Wow. Haven't heard that in a very long time.

Swell, as in "Gee Wally, that new ball glove looks swell".

Gag a maggot on a gut wagon.

Homie don't play that way.

I wanna thank you !

please
thank you

Schwing!
Smokin!
Mr, Mrs, Ms. (Last name)

" I'll bust your -ss"
"Tougher than a pine knot"
"You'd better get it in gear"

Buzz killer!
What’s up!
Haying the horses

Dad still threatens to "brain ya" and tells you he didnt feel a thing when you hurt yourself.
I dont think i heard anyone mention "get me another beer" follow by "you know i count those"...I think the first time i heard that i was 12...
Dad let us cus but an f bomb was a little much so we turned to fricken...
Wish in one hand, tihs in the other and tell me which one fills up first..
Your mother
Dude. I still find myself calling people dude...and just saying dude as a general reaction to something shocking.
Put yer seat belt on!
Every body part. was follow by "bone" at one time. My arm bone! My leg bone!
If i had a dime for every time i heard you say that...
Cool yer jets
Hold yer horses
"Whatever" dad hated that coming outta your mouth worse than the f bomb.
Now that i think about it i cant mention half the sayings i grew up with...
Im 39 and had 5 uncles just on dads side, the oldest just died in his early 70s. My wise cracks and phrases are vast.
Us kids pretty much picked up our lingo from our roots. We were a tight knit family.

Cool beans

Word

Rad


Britches, "pull up your britches!"

Want the paddle?

Daddy o

ride shotgun

power shift

zing it

Hood or hoods. (refering to the tough guys)

Davenport / Sofa
Soft Drink / Pop
Dungaree's
Spank'in
Fella

Lay some rubber
Pedal to the metal.
Let's blow this popsicle stand

Harder than woodpecker lips
Step on a crack break mamas back
Leg on each side mind in the middle (breaking horses)
go pick a switch and bring it to me
Madder than a cat on a hot tin roof
Go cruising
Another day another dollar
Because I said so
So hungry could eat the _ss out of a skunk

Wait until your father gets home !

how could I have forgotten that one! Lol

Anyone else drag main on Friday and Saturday nights? Mentioned it to my kids when they were in high school and they looked at me like I had two heads.

Stiffle yourself!

Your yass is grass....and i’m The lawn mower.

Dinkweed

Recked Yah ....lol

You don’t know sheet from shinola. I’ll tan your hide. Who in the halls of Hades.

That's all we did.....every night. Didn't want to go home, might miss something! Seems pretty dorky nowdays....but, not much else to do! We had a plsce we would go out drag racing every chance we got. Cops would come, and we'd scatter five different directions. Don't remember anyone getting caught! Fast cars were pretty important back then!

Ill give you something to cry about!!

we did too Lee(dino sours)

Been a while since I seen anyone
"Just going in circles"..
or
"Painting them selves into a corner".....
Still see a lot of
"Walk Offs"
just don't here anyone call them that.
Haven't heard anyone but myself call anyone..
"Numb Nuts" for sometime either

I got a long list have always been good and name calling and labels. Learned from my old man..
Kids do use some now I don't know though.

Mac

Same here....we had a spot on interstate 93 that was 1/4 mile....all the Kids at The burger joint would gather on the Ash street Bridge and watch us Drag race on the highway below. Of course back in 1975 there wasn’t much traffic ....we did all our racing at night. Then there was grudge night racing @ New England Dragway 40 minutes away....and for 2.00 ...you could race anyone you wanted to...and get Time tickets ....we lived up there !! Drop the headers and bolt on the slicks...drive it up..and drive it home.

We would "cruise" Main in downtown Miami, OK. Then it got to the point that the police started cracking down on it and writing tickets for every little infraction they could find... And a few they made up when they couldn't find any... It died out not long after.

Mike