(I got this in an Email this week and wanted to share)
“Heavens to Murgatroyd!”
Does that bring back memories?
Recently, a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about driving a “jalopy” and he looked at her quizzically and said, “What the heck is a jalopy?”
He had never heard of the word jalopy!! She knew she was old, but not that old.
Here are some expressions. some lost words from our childhood that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
“Don’t touch that dial”
“Carbon copy”
“You sound like a broken record”
“Hung out to dry”
“Straighten up and fly right”
“Heavens to Betsy”
“Gee whillikers”
“Jumping Jehoshaphat”
“Holy moley”
“In like Flynn”
“The life of Riley”
“You are a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill”
“Not for all the tea in China”
Back in the olden days, life used to be “swell”. But when’s the last time you heard that anything was “swell”? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, the D.A, spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.
“Oh, my aching back”
“I’ll be a monkey’s uncle”
“This is a fine kettle of fish”
Where have all those phrases gone?
“Oh, pshaw”
“The milkman did it”
“ It’s your nickel”
“Knee high to a grasshopper”
“Well, fiddlesticks”
“Going like sixty”
“Don’t take any wooden nickels”
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than “Carter has liver pills”.
And with that, I suppose it’s “See ya’ later, alligator!”