# Little words or phrases you wish people used more often **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942 "2003-01-31T20:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/21 "2003-01-31T20:58:13Z")
I use an uncomfortable amount of these. Speaking of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it contains a euphemism for pregnant that I am using at every opportunity: “on the nest,” as in, “Are ya, Mare?! Are ya on the nest?!” I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/22 "2003-01-31T21:04:30Z")
My personal favorite for a moment of surprise “It just goes to show that wherever you go, there you are.” It beats the alternative - “Well, I’ll be dipped in shit.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/23 "2003-01-31T21:08:08Z")
“Please” and “thank you” I’ve personally been making an effort to say “great googly moogly” more. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/24 "2003-01-31T21:09:56Z")
In homage to one of **Tuckerfan** ’s favorite crazed authors, I’d like to see people introducing debates by asking “Malarkey? Or effective way?” ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/25 "2003-01-31T21:12:33Z")
“Howdy” “Fellow” “For Pete’s sake” “Jim-dandy” “Pyramid of human skulls” ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/26 "2003-01-31T21:24:50Z")
I use howdy all the time though rarely have call for “pyramid of human skulls.” ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/27 "2003-01-31T21:30:48Z")
Learned at my father’s knee: “Well, shithouse mouse!” ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/28 "2003-01-31T21:46:14Z")
“My Stars!” “That’s the cat’s pajamas” and “Knee-high to a grasshopper” They all remind me of my late grandfather. Me and my sisters call them oldyisms. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/29 "2003-01-31T21:48:57Z")
“No worries” “No Drama” I homesick for Australia! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/30 "2003-01-31T22:14:07Z")
We need more … Toodle Pip, scally-wag, Hi Opal, Hot-diggity, Gordon Bennet, and diddly-squat. Cheers, Bippy ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/31 "2003-01-31T22:17:08Z")
“Poppycock!” “Horse patootie!” “Quite right, old bean.” “Tally-ho!” ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/32 "2003-01-31T22:43:44Z")
My daughter recently mixed expressions, and came up with this gem: “Oh, for crying out Pete!” We love this and now use it all the time, much to her dismay. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/33 "2003-01-31T22:57:05Z")
“Laws, yes” ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/34 "2003-01-31T23:04:41Z")
“I’ll be back anon” “For the nonce” “I’ve come over all (hungry, tired,etc.)” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/35 "2003-01-31T23:13:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PoorYorick \* > \*\*Learned at my father’s knee: “Well, shithouse mouse!” \*\* I always heard this one “crazy as a shithouse mouse”. Aparrently, shithouse mice are crazy, driven so by the demands of living in the shithouse. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/36 "2003-01-31T23:25:47Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by pravnik_ > \*\*I always heard this one “crazy as a shithouse mouse”. \*\* Are you implying that my father _didn’t_ create “shithouse mouse”? Another childhood illusion down the drain . . . ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/37 "2003-01-31T23:30:53Z")
He might have. Texas isn’t too far from Louisiana, it could have migrated. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/38 "2003-01-31T23:32:17Z")
“There’s the rub.” “Cool beans!” “I’m fixin’ to go crazy, wanna come?” “Ohhhh, that’s the Bees Knees!” ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/39 "2003-01-31T23:55:08Z")
How about answering everything with a rhyming name (Popular in grade school): “Sure thing, Bing.” “No way, Faye.” “Way to go, Joe.” . . . ad infinitum. ---
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-words-or-phrases-you-wish-people-used-more-often/151942/40 "2003-02-01T02:26:12Z")
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