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In reply to the discussion: Phrases you don't hear anymore: [View all]OldBaldy1701E
(6,569 posts)87. Let's see...
"May I help you?"
"I see your side of the argument and we should discuss it further."
"I have enough." (A particularly obsolete phrase that seem to have zero meaning for anyone in this country.)
"We need to look at the big picture." (If we did that, we'd see just how insidious those rethugs have been, so they got rid of that concept.)
And one of my all time favorites... an Irish prayer that means as much today as it did back when it was created.
"From ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Great Lord protect us!"
I used to hear the older people say this all the time way back when. We surely need it now.
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Holy cow. Never understood it but but always thought cows somehow deserved a phrase like that.
dgauss
Yesterday
#8
I sold my Grand Baroque patterned sterling silver set I inherited from my mother. Nodody polishes silver any more.
CTyankee
14 hrs ago
#81
Some I wish I never heard again like "My Bad", calling a movie a "Flick", "Dude"
doc03
18 hrs ago
#32
Land o' Goshen! ... and "Republicans are the party of fiscal reasonability"
JohnnyRingo
17 hrs ago
#36
In college in the late sixties we actually made fun of ourselves by saying "farm out" and "out of state".....
EarnestPutz
7 hrs ago
#122