# More Archaic Phrases **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239 "2010-05-21T12:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/41 "2010-05-22T10:18:06Z")
Please excuse me if I am repeating myself, but: 1. “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” (I actually said that one day after a fellow high school English lit student mispronounced the word “Fo 'Castle”. (He said “four castle”: It’s “fox-hole” right? :)) 2. “Ye Gods!” (and little fishes) 3. “I didn’t _come_ here to be _insulted!_” Groucho (I think) response: “Well, where do ya _usually_ go?”🙂 1. “Operator? Get me the police/what time is it/give me KLONdike 555…!” Yeah, I know I veered off-topic a little bit there: Movie dialogue right? But I watch a lot of TCM early morning these days, so I hear a lot of that, ya chumps!😃 Love Y’all Q ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/42 "2010-05-22T10:57:35Z")
> [@maladroit](#): > > “If I had my druthers.” I’m fresh out of druthers. Would you care for a rat’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/43 "2010-05-22T14:19:25Z")
Ye gads! Great honks! Watch your phraseology! Well, I never! (I should’ve but I never!) This thread is the cat’s pajamas. Huzzah! (I say huzzah all the time. Out loud, even.) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/44 "2010-05-22T22:52:46Z")
If I hear about you running down my friend again, I’ll give you what for. ::shaking fist:: ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/45 "2010-05-22T23:52:13Z")
Oh, pish-tosh. By the by, your barn door’s open. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/46 "2010-05-22T23:58:04Z")
“Cheez-it, Rocky, it’s the coppers!” ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/47 "2010-05-23T03:10:14Z")
“What the Sam Hill is goin’ on here?” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/48 "2010-05-23T04:30:58Z")
“Blast and drats!” I actually said thisa at work yesterday, we’re not suppose dto curse on the office floor. My cube mate turned her chair slowly toward me. “Did you just say ‘blast and drats’?” Um…yeah. Yeah I did. _blush_ ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/49 "2010-05-23T04:36:51Z")
Oh my god I am so old. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/50 "2010-05-23T04:53:39Z")
You sound like a broken record! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/51 "2010-05-23T06:30:19Z")
“It’s _uncanny_, I tell you! **Uncanny**!” And, while we’re at it, _“WHY must you be so incorrigable???”_ “Well, 'scuse ME ma’am, but I always thought I was canny AND corrigable!” stupid mommy-frigger Q ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/52 "2010-05-23T13:53:41Z")
Haven’t seen it used in years-it is a common term in Mark Twain’s books. Can we revive the use of “scoundrel” please? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/53 "2010-05-23T14:47:42Z")
These phrases are long gone on the sewing machine. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/54 "2010-05-23T16:32:47Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Haven’t seen it used in years-it is a common term in Mark Twain’s books. Can we revive the use of “scoundrel” please? Yeah, in more recent years it’s been replaced by terms like “punks” and “thugs”. But ‘scoundrel’ seems to cover more ground. I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/55 "2010-05-23T16:36:38Z")
He’s not just a scoundrel, he’s a cad and a bounder. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239/56 "2010-05-23T18:44:03Z")
> [@Meme\_Chose](#): > > He’s not just a scoundrel, he’s a cad and a bounder. They used to call him scruffy lookin’, a long time ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-archaic-phrases/540239.md?page=2)