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Archiac Sayings

#62
"I'll bet ya dollars to donuts" As if this is supposed to somehow entice someone into taking a bet. What if they lose? Where are they gonna get all the donuts from? The amount of money it's gonna cost 'em to buy the donuts is probably gonna be the same amount as the bet! Sheesh!
 
#63
Modern speakers of English may not recognize this archaic saying, but it's an old Neanderthal proverb.

Ready?

OK.

Here it is....

Unh!

Everyone thought it was a real knee slapper 30,000 years ago.
 
#64
"The whole nine yards"
Refers to something as being complete or "everything".
Here's where it came from---a .50 calibre machine gun belt is 27 feet long. So when you burned up the whole belt while shooting at an enemy tank, you gave it the whole nine yards.

"Lock, stock and barrel"
Another firearms related old saying. Again, meaning complete, or "everything", but much older, referring to flintlock rifles. The lock (the mechanism to make the rifle fire), the stock (the wooden "handle") and the barrel (the tube the ball flies out of LOL). Altogether, they are complete, and make up a flintlock rifle.
 
#67
My dad would say "fine as frogs hair" when asked how he was doing.

My grandpa would say "that dog'll hunt." Referring to one of the many hotrods he had over the years.

Speaking of hotrods, i think you could put that word on here too. At least for its meaning. People used to use that word in reference to making a car go faster and look cooler but now they say that it's "tuned". We still hotrod amps but not too many people have proper hotrod cars any more.
 
#68
bassinplace said:
"I'll bet ya dollars to donuts" As if this is supposed to somehow entice someone into taking a bet. What if they lose? Where are they gonna get all the donuts from? The amount of money it's gonna cost 'em to buy the donuts is probably gonna be the same amount as the bet! Sheesh!
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Maybe they planned on standing outside the dumpster and getting the donuts the shop threw away at the end of the day. :D
 
#70
LiquidMidnight said:
Some "retro" things need to stay in the past, no matter how kitschy they are to bring back. The exception I make is the word "groovy." That's a word that totally needs to come back into the modern vernacular.

Ahh, who am I kidding? PBR-drinking hipsters with unkempt beards would most likely steal the word and make it their own in an attempt to be cooly ironic.
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You are making an ironic post about the fact that this has already happened, right?

I meant to say, "That horse has already left the barn!"
 
#72
If you have time, look through famous sayings by Shakespeare that we still use today.

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Forever and a day
What's in a name
He has eaten me out of house and home
Let's kill all the lawyers
I won't budge an inch
We've seen better days
What's done is done
 
#73
runmikeyrun said:
I'm also fond of telling people to "bugger off" or using other variations of that Brit slang. Most people just give you a strange look, like they know they've just been insulted but not exactly sure how haha. It's funny to see people's faces on the rare occasion that they know what it means.
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Bugger is the quintessential Australian exclamation, verb, noun, insult and god knows what else, you'd fit right in.

Bugger this, bugger that, bugger me, bugger it, bugger off, it's buggered, I'll be buggered, little bugger, buggered up, gone to buggery.

My personal favourite is Buggerise though.
 
#74
TheREALRandyMos said:
My dad would say "fine as frogs hair" when asked how he was doing.

My grandpa would say "that dog'll hunt." Referring to one of the many hotrods he had over the years.

Speaking of hotrods, i think you could put that word on here too. At least for its meaning. People used to use that word in reference to making a car go faster and look cooler but now they say that it's "tuned". We still hotrod amps but not too many people have proper hotrod cars any more.
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I have a friend who says "fine as fiddle dust".

Re: donuts = "0" donut is the shape of a zero.
 
#75
A few more

Keep on truckin’
He’s knee high to a grasshopper
That’s better than sliced bread
They are selling like hotcakes
Hoop-de-doo
I just want a smidgen of that
Yikes!
Eureka!
Egad!
Gee whiz
They are rarer than hen’s teeth
He’s fit as a fiddle
Fine and dandy
Beau Brummell
He’s smiling like a Cheshire cat
 
#76
TheREALRandyMos said:
Speaking of hotrods, i think you could put that word on here too. At least for its meaning. People used to use that word in reference to making a car go faster and look cooler but now they say that it's "tuned". We still hotrod amps but not too many people have proper hotrod cars any more.
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Hotrod cars are alive and well in these here parts. I am involved in organizing many car shows and cruises along with many car clubs and there are quite a lot of hotrods around here. There was also a huge event in Cumberland, MD over Labor Day weekend dedicated to hotrods. I even did a live TV interview with a friend of mine and we had his hotrod car on the show.
 
#77
My supervisor has tons and tons of these..

From hell to breakfast
Hotter than two rats f&$@ing in a wool sock
Hotter than two _____ f$;($ing in a forest fire

Omg it never ends with him I just can't think of any at the moment.
 
#79
Another day another dollar
As rare as hen's teeth
Bigger than a breadbox
The best thing since sliced bread
Every dog has his day
The worm turns
Give a man to fish and he will ... (you know the one)

A lot of these things are something that may have been original and funny at first but became cliches. I like fracturing cliches, I will say things like:

Another day another fifty cents. When people smile I say "I got a raise."

The best thing since sliced atoms

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will spend all kinds of money on expensive fishing equipment and his wife won't see him on weekends.
 

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