You kids, get off my lawn!
“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)
“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)
“Dance maven”
“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)
“Copacetic” (it’s all good)
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.
Dad gum
I couldn’t remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day… so that
“moderate Republicans”
Boy, I sure love owning a house.
Hey, I’m heading into my late 40s and I haven’t been able to say that yet lol
So not old, cool
My dad called rootbeer floats “boston coolers” and called BigBoy’s restaurants “Manners”
Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.
“Do you want to go to the pictures?”
“Kids these days don’t want to work.”
Ouch! I must have slept wrong.
‘Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football’
‘About as useful as a wooden dick on a sawhorse’
Etc.
After living with my grandma for so long I started saying “god willing” and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol
“Here, have a Werther’s.”
I’m in my 20s and have for years had a stash of these…
Tight timeline, but I guess you could be a grandparent.
“Comment ça vas”
i am from Louisiana
“Back in my day”