For years, I have used the expression “what’s-his-melon” (or “what’s-her-melon”) as an equivalent to “what’s-her-name,” “what’s-his-face,” etc. (I assume this comes from “melon” being slang for “head,” as in, “I’m going to bust your melon if you don’t shut up.”)
I am confident I did not make this up. I know because I sometimes take credit for having made up things that I did not make up, so if were going to make a mistake on this, it would be in the other direction.
Imagine my surprise, then, when a Google search for “what’s-his-melon” turned up zero documents. I know I’m not the only person who says this. Or am I?
Anybody else got a favorite phrase that seems to be unique? Try some that you’re sure everyone uses-- you might be surprised.
Also, start saying “what’s-his-melon” more often, so I don’t feel like a freak.
I’ve always used “forever and a day” to describe something taking a huge and/or inordinate amount of time. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard it elsewhere.
When I was younger and disinclined to cuss, I used “razzenfratz” as my expletive of choice. Dunno where it came from, but I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone else use it.
I use it for various things, fr’instance upon completion of an extremely difficult task “I nearly halved myself in three doing that!” or if something is really really funny I’ll “nearly halve myself in three” laughing at it, you get the idea.
With certain friends, I have slowly gone from “What’s up” to “whassup” to “quassup” to “croissant”. So if you ever meet a slightly crazed chick greeting people with a hale hearty “croissant!”, its me.
I use “in the wrong church,” or “in the right church” to describe whether the conversation or circumstances are being understood or not (Boy, are you in the wrong church on that one). I’m not religious and don’t know where it came from.
I also use “running around the barn” to describe doing a whole lot of unnessary thinking (Why don’t you just do it instead of running around the barn?). I got that from my mother (she used “running around Robin Hood’s barn”).
Could be, but I don’t recall ever watching that cartoon - I’m only marginally aware of the characters. And I seem to recall Yosemite Sam was more “rassem-frassem” and such.
All I know is it’s an expression I used and I don’t know that I’ve ever heard anyone else use it. Which is the topic, yes?
Well, I may be the only person in the world under the age of 90 who uses the words “dreadful” or “cross” (meaning mildly angry). At least that’s what people keep telling me.
I’ve adopted one of my daughter’s verbal typos for everyday use: " Oh, for crying out Pete!" But the only real expression I use that I’ve never heard anyone else use is “run over by a trolleybus.”
“I feel like I’ve been run over by a trolleybus.”
“Live for today, man, cuz tomorrow you could be run over by a trolleybus.”
“Jeez, it looks like this thing has been run over by a trolleybus!”
When I lived on the Left Coast, I would refer to the town of Carpenteria as Crap ‘n’ diarrhea. This evolved into an expression of anger, “Crap…and diarrhea!”
Now anytime I say, “Aw, Crap!” the wife and kids automatically chime in with “…and diarrhea!”
