Do You Use Any Old Fashioned Slang Or Phrases?

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  1. Thomas Stearn

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    I occasionally use old-fashioned phrases in retaliation for more recent slang or dialect words which I'm exposed to and which people either don't want me to understand (the former ) or simply expect me to understand (the latter).:D
     
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  2. Hal Pollner

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    "Take it easy, Greasy...ya got a long way to slide!"

    "Plant you now, dig you later!"

    "Put an egg in your shoe and beat it!"

    "You're in like Flynn"

    "He's as well organized as a one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest!"

    Hal
     
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    Can't say I use any since I couldn't remember them.
     
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    I use that all the time, "as all get out." Didn't know it was an old one since it's it has always been in my vocabulary.;)
     
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    My dad’s way to say stop of shut up was “can it”! I have no idea how the expression even found it’s way to my dad but we knew that when he said it, he meant business.
     
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  6. Hal Pollner

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    I was considering a Quid Pro Quo, but decided on a cheeseburger instead.

    Hal
     
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    The last time someone said "quid pro quo" to me, I dumped a glass of iced tea on him.

    It's a long story......
     
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  8. Hal Pollner

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    Just a couple here.... for cars today they say "your ride" or "your wheels".

    In the 50's we used "kemp" or "short" :

    Jim: "We can't use my kemp tonight...it's got a dead battery."

    Larry: "That's OK..we can take my short !"

    Never heard of these words? I can believe it!

    Hal
     
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    Never heard them in any films ( movies)...nope....
     
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    I've never heard of them either @Hal Pollner .
    I know we never asked if someone wanted a ride.
    Instead, we would ask if they wanted us to carry them to the store.
    My dad still says it that way.
     
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    I was a California teenager and never heard those other than wheels. How about Flick for movie?
    Split for leave? Dig It for understand? Cool for OK?
     
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    Same with me. I'm not always sure what is considered acceptable english or something my ancestors made up and we still say it that way.
    I guess it doesn't matter as long as the majority of the people you talk with on a daily basis says it the same way.
    I don't know who made all the proper english grammar rules and truthfully, I don't even care. :D
     
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  13. Hal Pollner

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    We had a Los Angeles Rock & Roll radio announcer (KRKD) who used to say: "For all you Cats & Kittens riding around in your Car, Kemp, or Short, here's a new release by Fats Domino!"

    We all used Kemp & Short!
    Hal
     
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    Don’t get aggravated Hal, it Must have been a local thing.
    I can’t find the word Kemp used as a slang except as a British thing for a strong warrior.
    Other than that, there’s a town or something where people go to detox in Indiana called Kemp and there is a short, strong, wiry strand of fiber called a Kemp and is used in some type of carpet.

    As far as short goes, the only thing I remember off hand for “short” being used as a slang was when someone asked another person if they could have the short, meaning; what’s left of a cigarette when someone is done with it.

    But sorry, I looked hard and can’t find any reference to a car, automobile or anything else other than what I have already written with those two words used as a slang.
     
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    My dad always said after I presented my rock solid case, "you have as much chance as a one legged man at a butt kicking contest."
     
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