Actually, that might be ‘Bob’s your auntie’s live-in lover’. I’ll have to pull out a DVD to be sure.
pulykamell: I say ‘cat’ too.
Actually, that might be ‘Bob’s your auntie’s live-in lover’. I’ll have to pull out a DVD to be sure.
pulykamell: I say ‘cat’ too.
Now that’s old school. . .so, were you there for the premier of Hamlet?
I use “nifty” a lot, which was apparantly popular in the '70s. I wasn’t alive then, so I dunno.
I also use a lot of foreign slang, like “Ach! Bloody 'ell!”. One time there was a British exchange student at my school, and he thought I was mocking him until my friends explained that, yes, that’s how I normally talk.
A couple that no one will probably mention:
“You couldn’t kill him/her with a double bitted axe” refers to toughness in living through accidents, disease, old age.
“Since Jesus Christ worked lead tongs” - an oil field expression meaning old or for a long time. Comes from the bottom position on a drilling rig.
I’ve read way too much P.G. Wodehouse so I tend to greet friends with a hearty call of “What Ho!”
If an argument ensues, I’ll raise an eyebrow, look frostily at my opponent and exclaim “Ha!” and I meant it to sting.
Brian
*"half-a-league,
half-a-league,
half-a-league onward.
with a Hey-nonnie-nonnie
and a Hot-cha-cha!"
*
And Desi loved Othello cuz he had a big…sword!
Sling your hook - roughly means piss off.
A load more old northern English one, too, which for some reason I can’t think of now :smack:
I think all my slang is old, and I’m 23.
However, also, I cling stubbonly to some older meanings of words (in addition to new ones), like, occasionall using “gay”=“happy, carefree”
Nifty isn’t cool anymore? Crap! What next? Will they take my “odds bodkins” too? Is nothing sacred anymore?!
I always say “Robert’s your father’s brother,” but I think that came from a Guy Ritchie movie.
A better question would be “What ‘new’ sland do you use?” To which my answer would be: None!
I don’t use slang until it’s gone out of style and sounds wonderfully ironic! Word!
I’ve suggested to friends that it’s time to “Cheese it!” with, of course, the obligatory reference to the immenent arrival of “The Fuzz.”
When driving, and having a loooong wait to break into traffic, when I finally have a clear spot, I’ll call out: “Into the breach!”
“Od’s bodkins,” or “Od’s bodikins,” get used often, as well.
I frequently threaten peopel with knuckle sandwiches.
Admittedly, it is an affectation, but when I talk to mys students I like to sprinkle my conversation with expressions from Nadsat, The Beverly Hillbilies, hard-boiled private eye novels, and British or Australian slang. Recently, for example, I made this statement to a student when we were discussing a friend of his who had run afoul of the police the night before:
“That goomer best stay on the up and up lest next time the bottle and stopper tolchock him with no appy-lolly-ologies.”
Since the kid I was talking to is a pretty big movie fan, he actually understood me.
Cat’s pyjamas
23 skidoo
…and Bob’s your uncle
Porkies
Cool
Dude (although it’s a saying I got from my dad: if you’re looking at some guy, and he’s looks like a complete fool in some way, but it makes you shake your head and smile anyway, Dad will say “He’s a dude.” Or “What a dude.”)
Ace (sometimes preceded by bloody)
Widdershins
“Porky Pies” for lies (as in falsehoods);
“scrimshanker” or “lead-swinger” for someone who slacks off;
“jiggery-pokery” for underhanded doings;
“skee-whiff” for something that is crooked.
Some great stuff here:
I don’t know if it was ever popular, but I use “neato-torpedo” a lot. I also like “spiffy” and its superlative “spifferriffic” but just on special occasions - one doesn’t want to overuse, does one? I’ll also let out with a “cool beans” if I feel it’s warranted.
I have no idea what the kids are saying these days, anyway.
Cool beans.
One of my personal favorites is, “Slicker than snot on a doorknob.”
I use spiffy, neato, and nifty a fair amount (I feel justified using nifty as I HAD a Nifty-brand notebook when I was a kid and am still mourning its loss…)
Cool beans, yep, I use that one
Jesus, Jenny in the foothills
Christ on a crouton
Cool and groovy…even I cringe a little but they slip out.
And the ever popular far out…