Old phrases

Are you out of your orbit? He went banannas! You foreflusher!, ...you got the idea, whatcha got?

He's two bricks short of a load.
 
Good fences make good neighbors.

Older than dirt.
Knee high to a grasshopper.

SCHWEEEEEEET! circa late 80's 90's and still around some!

raining cats and dogs
like a bat out of hell

Great clouds of buggy dust
 
I'm sick in bed with two nurses

These are rapidly becoming obsolete due to technology and culture:
 
Wow, this thread is beginning to sound like a broken record!
Turn clockwise, then counterclockwise.
35 and not married? She's an old maid.
 
Bart
 
 

I need that like a hole in the head.
 
Go stand in the corner.  (I never heard of Time Outs)
 
Dialing the phone.
 
Hold the wire.

groovy
slide rule
phone booth
soon to be extinct...camera film & cathode ray tube

Hey DaddyO! I just went bonkers so like slip me some skin, you kowabunga surfer dude.

If that don't beat the bugs afightin'.

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.

jman


If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.

thats a good un there
have at it.

better than sliced bread

One from my wife's childhood in Queens.
She thinks who she is.
A lot of people don't get that one.

Monkey see, Monkey Do!
If that ain't good, then Grits ain't groceries!
Good night, Sleep tight, don't let the Bed Bugs bite!
Have you been a jerk all your life or is this a recent problem?
If that ain't the Cat's A**!
 

My grandmother had a valise and a chifferobe.

My Grandma had on of those Chifferobes too! She also had one of those old "Potty Pots" that she kept under the bed for when it was too cold to make a trip to the bathroom! I forget what it was called.

Chamber pot?
 

Putting it through the ringer.
 
 

mar52


Chamber pot?

BINGO! You're so smart!

My Dads favorite-The Village is calling for you( idiot)
And one I find creepy, but have heard alot:
Dont drink the Kool-Aid( a reference to not joining a crowd just to do it -ala Jim Jones)

Did you see that car that just passed us, he was going lickety split!

chewingthefat


.......he was going lickety split!

 
I just saw this article that says that that is now the number one cause of throat cancer.

A pig's ass is pork, but when he sits on it, it's pressed ham.
 
Never was sure exactly what that meant, but my Old man used to say it all the time before he left this sh!tty worls.

Now or never.
Do or Die.
Put up or shut up.
Some times you eat the Bear, Sometimes the Bear eats you!
What goes around, comes around.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Elvis Presley will never make it! (I made that one up in 1957)
That's the cat's meow!
Bug Off!
Mind your own Bee's Wax!

"Fiddle sticks!!"

No skin off my teeth.
Stone Cold Sober.
If that's what floats your Boat.
Give me a Brewski.
Knock it off!
Holy Hannah!
Jeeeeez!
You ain't as smart as you think you are.
I'll wash your mouth out with soap!
If you eat those seeds, Watermelons will grow in your Stomach!
Even a Blind Squirrel finds an Acorn every once in a while.
Hubba Bubba!
I'm with Stupid!
Go get 'em Tiger!

Jumpin Jehosephat [sp?]
Butt ugly
holy moley
cripes
wassup
as scarce as hen's teeth
your barking up the wrong tree
go play in traffic
see me, hope ya do
gezo flip
bummer

Gezo Flip?????????????????????
Never heard that one?