Terms Which Have Disappeared

[LizzieMaine]

Flappin ya yap

 

[tonyb]

Among those who brought me up, it was "flappin' yer lips." Or "jaw."

 

[Fading Fast]

Two from the 1937 movie "That Certain Woman."

• Roll Your Hoop (used in the movie as "Roll your hoop out of here," meaning, get lost)

• Straight from the Shoulder

 

[ChiTownScion]

When my dad was an active duty firefighter in Chicago, each rank and file fireman was occasionally called upon- on a rotating basis- to drive the chief around to the various firehouses in his battalion and elsewhere. This duty was known as "driving the buggy," and obviously was a throwback to the days of the horse and buggy. No idea whether the term is still employed: Dad retired in 1980.

 

[wallypop]

I use the phrase chew the fat. I also use the term jawing.

 

[2jakes]

"Hell's bells, I look like a turd under a
wash bucket."

"Wet behind the ears."

"Let's get our ducks in a row."

"Gimme some sugar." (kiss)

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Redhead-syndrome".

Learned the term first in the last days.

 

[2jakes]

"You are a few grapes short of a bunch".

 

[BlueTrain]

"His elevator doesn't stop on all floors."

 

[wallypop]

"His elevator doesn't stop on all floors."

has anyone ever heard "talk like a fish?"

 

[wallypop]

Has anyone ever heard the term"talk like a fish?" (My Dad's favorite for people saying stupid things!)

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Hell's Bell's is a phrase that I know. It has it's beginnings in the county next door to me with Belle Gunness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness

 

[2jakes]

"He's two bricks short of a load!"

 

[2jakes]

Has anyone ever heard the term"talk like a fish?" (My Dad's favorite for people saying stupid things!)

No.
Although at times I've been told I'm
"paddling with only one oar
in the water!"

 

[tonyb]

"Redhead-syndrome".

Learned the term first in the last days.

The phrase "treated like a redheaded stepchild," which I use myself occasionally, means to be regarded as a not entirely welcome presence -- to be tolerated more than embraced. It doesn't require a great imagination to figure out its origins.

I happen to know a literal redheaded stepchild. I count her as a friend.

 

[Zombie_61]

"You are a few grapes short of a bunch".

"His elevator doesn't stop on all floors."

"He's two bricks short of a load!"

"His dogs ain't all barkin'."
"His furniture is in all the wrong rooms."

 

[Stearmen]

That dog won't hunt!

 

[Bushman]

"Gimme some sugar." (kiss)

I've always loved this phrase, dunno why.

 

[2jakes]

I've always loved this phrase, dunno why.

 

[Benzadmiral]

The talk about red light cameras brings to mind the image of a motorcycle policeman hiding behind a billboard or bushes, ready to leap out and run down the speeders and scofflaws. Or in other words, a speed trap.

Rex Stout once had his character, private eye Archie Goodwin, describe a motorcycle cop as a "bicycle Cossack."