Twiddling your thumbs. How many more outdated expressions can you come up with??
I haven't heard the expression "Twiddling your thumbs" in a real long time. About ten minutes ago I read "Twiddling my thumbs" in a book and remembered my grandfather, always bored if he wasn't working, sitting in his recliner "Twiddling his thumbs".
So how many other expressions no longer in use can all of you come up with.
Serious memory lane stuff.
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“An old wives’ tale”
”knee high to a grasshopper”
”cuter than a bug’s ear”
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look up his number in phone book, or better yet call him from phone booth.......
what put the knot in your undies???????
cuttin the rug....
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Runs like a raped ape
See here now!
Hard to tell not knowing
Don't make me stop this car!
I'll hit you so hard that when you come to, your clothes will be out of style!
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Fiddle Sticks
Give me five
No rhyme nor reason
Let's do lunch
Go answer the phone (hanging on the wall in another room)
No bones about it
Ring around the collar
Step on a crack, break your mothers back
Please, please, don't be a litter bug cause every litter bit hoits (hurts)
Go ahead, knock it off, I dare ya
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Proud to be an American
?
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I was watching a very old boxing video and the announcer said, "He hit him so hard he knocked him to the queer side of the street.". Never heard it before or since.
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Eenie meany miney moe catch a..... never mind 😮
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When its all said and done,there is usually more said than done.
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my dad used to tell me i " wasted enough food to feed Coxeys army".
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Use your head for something other than a hat rack.
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Dumber than a bag of rocks.. slicker than snot on a door knob...fat people sweat...
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Don't trip over what is behind you.
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Check your oil for you?
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"Give me $3.00 worth." "Regular or ethyl?"
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Turn the channel
crank up your window
dial my number
send a memo
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"What you don't know won't hurt you."
???
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About as long as Pat stayed in the army
fine as frog hair and not half as dusty
tighter than dicks hatband
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"You don't have enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole"...(Usually preceded by boot to butt)...
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Up your nose with a rubber hose.
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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You don’t know your butt from a hole in the ground.
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Tighter than a bull’s arse at fly time.
Colder than a well-digger’s arse.
Watch your P’s and Q’s.
Hotter than a witch’s boob at Halloween.
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If'in that don't take the rag of the bush.
Steep as a mules face
Quicker than an electric cat.
Can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Looks like two bobcats fighting in a sack.
Butt ugly.
Got to take a break, over loaded the noggin trying to remember.
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Couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn even if inside it?
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With all the doors and windows shut.
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Drop a dime
Long distance operator, please
Pull the choke
A little dab'll do ya
LSMFT
Took him to the woodshed
Go ahead, it's your nickel
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LSMFT, L ucky S tike M eans F ine T obacco
Or L oose S trap M eans F lopp *****
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My dear departed Mother used to use this saying as not a derogatory nor racist statement but just to describe something very shinny. "Shinny as a n------ heal"
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"Why Not?...It's a free country!"
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it's not Gee Hawing
can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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