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household chores

pay phones

hay rides

TV dinners and TV trays

test patterns

street corner drinking fountains

shoe store foot x-ray machines

telephone booths

happy as a clam

boot black

fuddy duddy

cut to the chase

Brownie points

in like Flynn

hissy fi

paddle your own canoe

well heeled

up a gum tree

 

 

Just a few.  Old timers will know a lot more.  I don't know of any good ones from anyone under about 30-35 years old.

 

Lets' ee what you have.  Keep it clean.

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Spit Shine

Pump Jockey

Car Hop
Soda Jerk (Although I still know a few Jerks...:P)

Drive-In Theater (Although I know there are still a few in operation)

Reel to Reel Tape Deck

8 Track Tape

 

That's all that come immediately to mind.

 

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Dry goods store.

Mercantile. 

Geee whilikers.

Peachy-keen.

Bees Knees (although it'sa semi-popular mixed drink).

Biscuits and sop.

Cackleberry.

Shank's mare.

Hobsons choice. 

Skedaddle.

Hell beatin' tanbark.

 

 

 

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Five ‘n’ dime

three deuces

pie wagon

saw buck

plug nickel 

chicken scratch 

walkin’ the dog 

put’n on the dog

 

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Have a bone to pick

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Hell in a hand basket 

Gee whiz

I’ll Drop a dime on him

Penny for your thoughts 

 

 

 

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Bed clothes

 

Bustle board

 

Flapjacks

 

Grab iron

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Operator (telephone)

Call box

Parlor games

 

 

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Fiddleheads 

Tiddlewinks 

cat gut strings

 

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It's a Doozy

Radio/TV tube tester

 

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Rotary phone

Rabbit ears (in general these days)

 

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Leaded gas

Nehru suits 

love beads

Hippies

Beatnicks

lava lamps

 

 

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Rotary phone

dial the phone

Sensaround

Keystone Cops

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sharp as a knife

Soda Water / belly washer

RC cola and Moon Pie

sucks like a Hoover

Help My Time (used to express surprise)

cute as a bumble bee

cute as a lady bug

beat with an ugly stick

 

..........Widder

 

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3 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Bustle board

 

Tarnation!  I've not heard that in a coon's age.  It's a sockdollager that anyone remembered it.

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That anything like a bundling board?

 

 

I used to know this old guy that answered the phone with, "Your nickel".

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2 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

sucks like a Hoover

Electrolux.

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fixin' to come up a storm

right much/many

my Nanny called us chirren "chaps" - I think it was a Georgia thing

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11 minutes ago, MizPete said:

Electrolux.

I still have one. It in the garage, I use it for my car occasionally, it was my mom’s.

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Shut the door! Were you born in a barn?

 

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“You tryin’ ta’ heat the whole outdoors?”

 

”Get outside and let the breeze blow the stink off ya’!”

 

”Go cut me a switch!”

 

”Go wash up! Ya’ got dog on ya’!!”

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I'm gonna tan your hide!

Bust your britches. 

Not the brightness bulb in the chandelier. 

Dullest knife in the drawer.

Rough as a cob. 

Slicker than snot on a doorknob.  

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9 hours ago, Alpo said:

That anything like a bundling board?

Yup. Bundling board is what I was after.

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