Old phrases

Hip Huggers
Mini Skirts
Hot Pants
Short Shorts
Clam Diggers
I need that like I need a hole in the head.
Look before you leap.
That's like the pot calling the kettle black.
Better safe than sorry.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
A watched pot never boils.

Yea high-- as in, You know what burns my @$$? A flame about yea high.
 

Godspeed
Farethewell
Buster Brown shoes
Plunk your magic twangger froggie
Dont thank me, thank Lassie/ Rinny
I bet I can hold my breath longer than you can
Spin the bottle
jumping rope
Snow forts, snowball fights
Skybars
Milkmen
Home delivery, Dry Cleaning/ phoned in grocery orders
When people thought Swanson frozen dinners were good
Fishsticks on fridays
Raised hand..."may I use the pencil sharpener"?
The first time you got drunk on beer
DDT or Flit, as my dear Mother called it
Atomic Bomb drills at school
All Japan could produce were little umbrellas for drinks and those things you stuck your fingers in then couldn't get them out
Magnatized black and white Scottish Terriers.

Buster Brown Shoes? Smilin' Ed McConnell and Froggy The Gremlin.

Kick the can
 
phones made out of two tin cans and string

Sawbuck
Two bits
Plug Nickel
Saddle shoes
Whigs
 

I have a couple of double sawbucks in my wallet right now. And I just checked and found that I have six bits in my pocket. No plugged (note, plugged, not plug) nickels. And, while have have an old pair of white bucks in the closet, I have no idea what happened to my saddles shoes.

dimmie2


Kick the can

phones made out of two tin cans and string

 
You are incorrect Sir! Here are the rules:
Kick the can (also known as Tip the can) is a children's game related to tag, hide and seek, and capture the flag which can be played outdoors, with as many as three to a few dozen players. The game is one of skill, strategy, and stealth as well as fleetness.
One person or a team of people is designated as "it" and a can or similar object—paint can or metal pail or bucket—is placed in an open space: the middle of a backyard, a green, a cove or cul de sac, parking lot or street. The other players run off and hide while "it" covers his or her eyes and counts to a previously decided number. "It" then tries to find and tag each of the players. Any player who is tagged (caught and touched) is sent to the holding pen (jail) which is simply a designated area for all the captured players to congregate, generally in plain sight of the can. Any player who has not been caught can "kick the can". If they can do this without being caught, then all of the captured players are set free. If "it" catches all of the players he or she wins that round and generally a new "it" is designated for the next round.
 

I'm not a Sir!

Colder than a well digger's a**.
Blind as a bat.
Tin star
 "Howdy"
---- as the day is long. (cool, mean, etc...)
 
 

Flavored waxed lips
I could have danced a jig
Penny Loafers
Jawbreakers
A slice of bubblegum with your pack of baseball/football cards
Polio outbreaks
Hand fans
Fourth of July weapons of mass destruction every kid had
Soda Fountains in Drug stores
Coronet magazine
Swings made with an old tire
Pick up tackle football games, no equipment
Tire blowouts
Catholics blessing themselves when passing a Catholic Church
Hop-Scotch
BB Bats
Restaurants in Clothing stores
Playing cards in bycicle spokes held with a clothespin
Clothespins
Red Ryder Air Rifles
Creosote
Pea shooters
Burma shave signs
Cars towing other cars north to south to be sold to poor folks
Cigarrette packs rolled up in T shirt sleeve
 
 
 
 
 

Does anyone remember Sputnik gum? Mid-60s and the best gum around. It was aqua blue with sparkly sugar on it.

Penny Loafers -- I have a pair.
Fourth of July weapons of mass destruction every kid had -- I can still find 'em.
Soda Fountains in Drug stores -- There's still one here.
 
Swings made with an old tire -- One across the road from me.
Pick up tackle football games, no equipment -- Kids still do it. I wonder if it still hurts.
Catholics blessing themselves when passing a Catholic Church -- Sure.
Hop-Scotch -- I still see it.
BB Bats -- If you're talking wood, I have a Louisville slugger in the hall closet.
Playing cards in bycicle spokes held with a clothespin -- They stopped doing that?
Red Ryder Air Rifles -- $40 now in stores.
 
Pea shooters -- A kid just got expelled for possessing a weapon in school. A pea shooter.
Cigarrette packs rolled up in T shirt sleeve --Too funny. I saw two high school kids at McDonald's the other day with packs rolled up in their T-shirt sleeves.
 
But you know, I thought this thread was about old phrases.

chewingthefat


Flavored waxed lips
I could have danced a jig
Penny Loafers
Jawbreakers
A slice of bubblegum with your pack of baseball/football cards
Polio outbreaks
Hand fans
Fourth of July weapons of mass destruction every kid had
Soda Fountains in Drug stores
Coronet magazine
Swings made with an old tire
Pick up tackle football games, no equipment
Tire blowouts
Catholics blessing themselves when passing a Catholic Church
Hop-Scotch
BB Bats
Restaurants in Clothing stores
Playing cards in bycicle spokes held with a clothespin
Clothespins
Red Ryder Air Rifles
Creosote
Pea shooters
Burma shave signs
Cars towing other cars north to south to be sold to poor folks
Cigarrette packs rolled up in T shirt sleeve

dang, those bring back lots of memories!
saw many burma shave signs while on vacation.
used to do the playing cards in the spokes too!

Michael Hoffman


Penny Loafers -- I have a pair.
Fourth of July weapons of mass destruction every kid had -- I can still find 'em.
Soda Fountains in Drug stores -- There's still one here.

Swings made with an old tire -- One across the road from me.
Pick up tackle football games, no equipment -- Kids still do it. I wonder if it still hurts.
Catholics blessing themselves when passing a Catholic Church -- Sure.
Hop-Scotch -- I still see it.
BB Bats -- If you're talking wood, I have a Louisville slugger in the hall closet.
Playing cards in bycicle spokes held with a clothespin -- They stopped doing that?
Red Ryder Air Rifles -- $40 now in stores.

Pea shooters -- A kid just got expelled for possessing a weapon in school. A pea shooter.
Cigarrette packs rolled up in T shirt sleeve --Too funny. I saw two high school kids at McDonald's the other day with packs rolled up in their T-shirt sleeves.

But you know, I thought this thread was about old phrases.

It morphed, or Global warming got to it!

boyardee65


Colder than a well digger's a**.
Blind as a bat.
Tin star
"Howdy"
---- as the day is long. (cool, mean, etc...)

Colder than a witch's titty.
 
Howdy is still spoken where I come from.
 
Hell's Belles

its colder then a witch's tit in a brass bra

lol  never heard of the brass bra but I bet it would be cold!
 
you ain't just whistling dixie.

Creosote?  It keeps me in business.
Does anyone still use Mucilage?
 
 

one old phrase that comes to mind is...
chewing the fat  
 
 

up the creek without a paddle
 
God willing and the creek don't rise

mar52


Creosote?  It keeps me in business.
Does anyone still use Mucilage?

Mucilage? Isn't that the stuff you can get rid of by using Mucinex?

Sh** fire and save matches.
Great Caesar's ghost!!
I'd bet dollars to donuts.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Lower than a snake's belly in a ditch.

Karumba
I'd like to pat that kid on the head...leaving a large welt
Who cut the cheese
dang it
O pshaw
Monkey see monkey do
Hoover flags
Jo Jo the dog faced boy
his/her face would stop a watch
What a skag
Wanna toke
Don't Bogart that joint
Trippy
A stitch in time saves nine
smooching
Playing hookey
jail bait
The Yellow/Red menace
Grubsteak
I'm getting my feedbag on
Three sheets to the wind
Calling Ralph

Don't squat with yer spurs on!! 
You can lead a horse to water...
Gift horse
Plastered.  As in, "I was soooo plastered last night!!"
Yabba, Dabba, Doo!!!
What time is it kids???  It's Howdy Doody Time!!!!
 
 

Two-tone automobiles.