Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.

[Eyesa Horg]

Couldn't pull a sick whore off a p*ss pot.

[Warden Callaway]

I'll have to sing for my supper. 

Get happy in the same shoes you got mad in.

Dial me up some time. 

Is that a gun in your pocket or you just glad to see me?

Truth or consequences. 

In the first place. 

Path of lest resistance. 

A watched pot never boils. 

Has a screw loose somewhere.

Make mine Maxwell house. 

Good to the last drop.

 

 

 

[Eyesa Horg]

His elevator doesn't make it to the top floor 

[Warden Callaway]

Johnny on the spot.

Johnny come lately. 

Dead from the neck up.

Get my foot in the door.

I'm all ears.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

The more you put into it, the more your get out of it.

You ain't got a leg to stand on.

I'on in a pickle. 

Roll with the punches. 

Things went from bad to worse.

Smok'm if you got them.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Negatory, good buddy. 

Loose as a goose.

You're killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Hotter than a $2 pistol. 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

a brick short of a load

a sandwich short of a picnic

kangaroos on the top paddock

 

and, rarest of all:

  on time and under budget !

[Warden Callaway]

 

That'll put Grit in their craw.
Can't judge a book by its cover.
Get off your high horse.
That tickeled your funny bone.
SSDD.
You take the high road, I'll take the low road.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Old'y but goldy.
Something's rotten in Dinmark.
I'll be a monkey's uncle.
Saved by the bell.
Baha, humbug.
This'll knock your socks off.
You bet.
Two shakes of a lambs tail.
Something for everyone.
Red sky in the morning,  sailor take warning.  Red sky at night, sailor delight.
I'm going to make mintsmeat out of you.
Tire is only flat on the bottom.
Up tight, out of sight and in the groove. 
Eat $xxx and die.
More dead than alive. 
Taken as gospel.
Truer words were never spoken.
It's got a beat and you can dance to it.
What in the wide,  wide world of sports is going on here?
High wide and handsome. 
The straw that broke the camel back.
When it rains, it pours.
Wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
You can bank on it.
Up and at them.
Seze the day.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If I had my dreamers.
Turn over a new lief. 

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

WWJWD

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

hoity toity

Polaroid cameras

"Number please"

zone codes for mail, like Salt Lake City 314 Utah (My uncle Paul's zone or I wouldn't remember it.) 

party lines (and four or five digit phone numbers)

Ice deliveries for the ice box in the basement.

[Eyesa Horg]

Milk box on the porch

 

[Warden Callaway]

Got a face that would stop a clock.
Mary,  mother of Jesus.
Birds of a feather,  flock together.
Do your own thing.
Like a bat out of hell.
Nose to the grindstone.
Shoulder to the wheel.
Put your back into it.
I never promised you a rose garden.
Oh my gracious.
Gracious me!
Here's mud in your eye.
Roll out the red carpet. 
Have you got aints in your pants?
Like it or lump it.
Long in tooth. 
It is what it is.
Like cutting butter with hot knife.
Hind sight is 20 20.
Way off base.
Tripped my trigger. 
Pulling my leg.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Get to hell out of Dodge.
Face the music.
Put a cork in it.
At the drop of the hat.
Can't walk and chew gumb at the same time.
Have a nice trip? See you next fall.
If that don't take the cake.

[KatfishKid]

As useless as a screen door on a submarine

Meaner than a skillet full of rattlesnakes

As independent as a hog on ice

So crooked he could sleep in a barrel and never touch the sides

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Drier than a popcorn fart.

Educated beyond his intelligence.  

As certain as a politician's promise.

As funny as a broken crutch.

Who pulled your chain?

Go stand in the corner (and if my Mom said it you'd better be in that corner until she told you that you could leave).

Gone like a fart in the wind.

Look a gift horse in the mouth.

Tell it to the Marines.

Her halo is tarnished.

In the family way.

SOS for breakfast (better if you said it like what SOS stands for."

Union 76 purple motor oil.

Soda pop machines with ice in the bottom.

The phrase "soda pop" or just "pop".

Monkey Fist inner tube repait kits.

Inner tubes.

Porta Wall white sidewalls.

[MizPete]

7 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

The phrase "soda pop" or just "pop".

1. That's coke.  It's all coke.  What kind of coke do you want?

[Eyesa Horg]

7 minutes ago, MizPete said:

1. That's coke.  It's all coke.  What kind of coke do you want?

My Grandmother called it "Tonic". 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

33 minutes ago, MizPete said:

1. That's coke.  It's all coke.  What kind of coke do you want?

 

             ........ I'd much rather have a Pepsi, ....... please.  🙃

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

             ........ I'd much rather have a Pepsi, ....... please.  🙃

I never did like Pepsi.

 

I was a Coca Cola addict for years. It wasn't uncommon for me to drink a six pack a day...or more.

 

On the fourth day of our honeymoon we stopped at a motel in Pennsylvania in a downpour.  I walked to a gas station two blocks away in the middle of the night for a couple of bottles of Coke.  My brand new wife asked me why I would go out in that storm for Coke.  I told her I couldn't keep going without sugar and caffeine.  

 

She never failed to remind me at some of the most awkward moments.

 

It's still one of two favorites. (Sarsaparilla is tied for first place.)

[MizPete]

21 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

I'd much rather have a Pepsi, ....... please. 

A perfectly acceptable kind of coke.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Worn to a frazzle.

Cut to the chase.

Gillette Blue Blades.

Erector Sets.

Marx toys, especially electric trains.

Cast metal Flash Gordon toy space ships ( I saw a full set in pristine shape: asking price for all 20 of them was $1500.00.  The original price was less than a quarter each at F. W. Woolworth.)

F. W. Woolworth.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Flap Jacks.

 

See ya later, alligator.  After 'while, crocodile.

 

Shoe buttons and button hooks.

 

Cigarette rolling machines.

 

Almost anything from Ronco.

[Warden Callaway]

A wack in time saves nine.
Quit your pussy footing around. 
You got bats in your bellfree?
LSMFT Loose straps mean floppy t. ..
Windy enough to pull the hook off log chain.
Walk it off. Shake it off.
Answer to a question that was never asked.
I don't trust him any further than I can throw him.
Chomping at the bits.
Hold on to your hats.
Off my feed.
Path of least resistance.
That's going to leave a mark.
I know how much but not what of.
Phoney Bellona.
If the shue fits.
Cut to the chase.
So horney the crack of dawn wasn't safe.
World of fuzzy thinking.
World of hurt.
As easy as falling off a log.
We're going to do it or bust a gut trying.
Three men and a boy to get that done.
What's your beef?
Over worked and under payed.
Aim high, they're on my horses.
Aim low, they're riding Shetland ponys.
The faster I go, the behinder I get.
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way.
If it ain't one thing or the another.
I'm so hungry my navel is rubbing my backbone. 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Woopsie daisy.

Colder than mother-in-law's embrace.

Out in just a swell.

All blue jeans were called "Levis", no matter who made them.

Jeans were called "overalls".

It was cool (and authentic) to wear your Levi cuffs rolled up.  (Does anyone know why?)

P/ F. Flyers.

Twist-O-Flex watch bands.

Buster Brown.

Electric trains in department store windows at Christmas time.

Department store windows.

Lash Larue

Hand crank record players.

Chemistry sets.

Mimeographs.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Kissing bridges

 

(all y’all know what they were, right?)

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 3/7/2025 at 2:25 PM, MizPete said:

1. That's coke.  It's all coke.  What kind of coke do you want?

You a Southern boy, aincha?  

 

I never heard that north of Virginia nor west of Wichita except from southern folks.  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

51 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

You a Southern boy, aincha?  

 

I never heard that north of Virginia nor west of Wichita except from southern folks.  

My Memphis cousins said everything was coke.

[Eyesa Horg]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Kissing bridges

 

(all y’all know what they were, right?)

Braces ??? Otherwise, no clue!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Kissing bridges

 

(all y’all know what they were, right?)

 

9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Braces ??? Otherwise, no clue!

Covered bridges, cause there was a little privacy.

[Eyesa Horg]

56 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

 

Covered bridges, cause there was a little privacy.

Ahhh, I should have known that living up here! But grew up through adolescence in Connecticut, where they were few!

[Alpo]

3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

My Memphis cousins said everything was coke.

It's all coke, except actual Coke, which is Co-Cola.

 

And you don't even think about it. That's what comes out of your mouth. It's like calling a woman ma'am. You don't think about it. You talk to a woman you say ma'am.

[MizPete]

5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

You a Southern boy, aincha?

Nossir.  Southern Lady.  Born & raised in the sovereign state of South Carolina.

[Buckshot Bear]

Pack of pooticket 

[Warden Callaway]

Not seen nothing like it. Not even on a cow.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
It's midnight.  Do you know where your kids are?
I'll rip you a new one.
Take a load off.
A rolling stone gaters no moss.
Just icing on the cake.
I stand corrected.
She was so buck toothed, she could eat corn on to cob through a picket fence.
She's wearing clod hoppers.
We're burning daylight.
You drive me to drink.
Bodacious.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
Up to snuff.
Fuss budget. 
Crazy as a bed bug.
Got on you like white on rice.
Johnny come lately.
He's a flim-flam man.
Put a lid on it.
Onward and upward.
Necked is a j-bird.
Time marches on.
Pie eyed fool. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Camera flash cubes. 

Polaroid.

Honeywell Pentax.

Slide rules.

Enclosed slide fire escapes.

The March of Dimes.

Jacks ( the game).

Auto jack handles that doubled as starting cranks (MGA and Triumph TR 3 series still had them in the 1960s.)

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Polaroid

There’s a new technology Polaroid, I don’t know if it will be successful.

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 3/16/2025 at 11:19 AM, MizPete said:

Nossir.  Southern Lady.  Born & raised in the sovereign state of South Carolina.

Of course you're a lady.  I knew that and just plain wasn't paying attention.  My apologies.

[MizPete]

On 3/18/2025 at 6:02 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Of course you're a lady.  I knew that and just plain wasn't paying attention.  My apologies.

No harm done.