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We still say roll up the windows, but then again, my car is from 1954
The Brick is running now?! Amazing.
We say roll down the window even though it is a switch not a crank. Switch down the window just sounds wrong.
We still say roll up the windows, but then again, my car is from 1954
"Lolly gag". Every baseball coach I ever had used that term. But I never hear it today.
"Gumption". My grandmother used it all the time. Of course, it was usually in conjunction with some other "colorful" description of someone she found to be lacking in a character.
"Jake leg" or just "jake".
The Brick is running now?! Amazing.
We say roll down the window even though it is a switch not a crank. Switch down the window just sounds wrong.
Wide white wall tires I hope. I hope you are not getting all the windows tinted. :doh:Actually, he's getting new windows and tires right now
Wide white wall tires I hope. I hope you are not getting all the windows tinted. :doh:
It's better than my 4 year old, who, with the linguistic inelegance typical of her age, asks me to "put down the window."We say roll down the window even though it is a switch not a crank. Switch down the window just sounds wrong.
Did you lower it too then? Wide white walls?Yes, james... I'm tinting all the windows and putting one of those things in that make the car bounce up and down
Yes, white walls
Did you tell her that you never picked up the window in the first place. My sons do some of the same things with the English language. :doh:It's better than my 4 year old, who, with the linguistic inelegance typical of her age, asks me to "put down the window."
Frankly, love to use those old fashioned terms with "youngins" these days. Earlvexed, tizzie, flummoxed
I suppose we could simply say, "Open the window," or "Close the window," both of which would be applicable regardless of the method used....We say roll down the window even though it is a switch not a crank. Switch down the window just sounds wrong.
It's better than my 4 year old, who, with the linguistic inelegance typical of her age, asks me to "put down the window."
Alternately, you could have looked at the window and said something like, "Window, you're so fat that when you sit around the house, you sit around the house."Did you tell her that you never picked up the window in the first place...
A little weak on your Old Testament, eh?
Quite a few of them have never left with me. Including a few of the not nice ones.Just curious, has anyone started using these terms again in every day usage? Well, at least the nice ones.
Mike
I've read though this thread as it developed, but didn't go back this morning to check, has "tomcatting" been discussed? That put down for a promiscuous and overly aggressive male seems to have faded away.
I've read though this thread as it developed, but didn't go back this morning to check, has "tomcatting" been discussed? That put down for a promiscuous and overly aggressive male seems to have faded away.
We had another word for that, but I can't use it here. But such a man was likely to be riddled with Cupid's diseases, which is another term which seems to have disappeared.
We had another word for that, but I can't use it here. But such a man was likely to be riddled with Cupid's diseases, which is another term which seems to have disappeared.
"The Lues" or "Luetic.