Words or phrases you love (quote)

[AADAD]

motor mouth.

[virgode]

Verbal Diarrhea

[tangelag]

Some favorites:

dog and pony show

galavanting

money

You talking to me?

Watch and learn.

If it ain't broke...

So many _____, so little time

canoodling

[KathrynAragon]

I like:

My give a damn's busted.

He was drunker than Cooter Brown.

I left something turned on at home.

Flabbergasted.

Rode hard and put up wet.

All hat, no cattle.

Rapscallion.

He'd rather cross the street and tell a lie than stand there and tell the truth.

Or - He'd rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

He lied like a rug on the floor.

My husband uses this one all the time and neither of us have any idea what it means: "I've got to pee like a wild Comanche on a Russian race horse."

Skinamarink a dink a dink, skinamarink a doo - I love you.

Yankee dime (a meaningless kiss)

Jam up and jelly tight

Catty corner

Recalcitrant

Pusillanimous

Asinine

Yellow dog democrat

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by SandHills

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Good one. Most people won't get it.

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"Hello Beautiful!"

[tangelag]

Colder than a witch's t-- in a brass bra.

No sh--, Sherlock.

[tangelag]

Originally Posted by Seagrape Grove

Good one. Most people won't get it.

I get it and rated it +, but you're right. Of course, it is specific to a person that many younger people may not have had any experience with. It's kind of sad that the lexicon is diminishing in terms of older expressions and so many have to do with history or literature (or both). And so many are just so vivid in analogy. So many give us great insight into culture, especially idiomatic expressions. Can all of that be said of all the 'new' words? I don't know. I do know that many of the 'new' words have to do with technology, maybe dialogue from movies. I know this happens to all languages in all cultures. Anyone have an opinion? I have to think on this.

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by tangelag

I get it and rated it +, but you're right. Of course, it is specific to a person that many younger people may not have had any experience with. It's kind of sad that the lexicon is diminishing in terms of older expressions and so many have to do with history or literature (or both). And so many are just so vivid in analogy. So many give us great insight into culture, especially idiomatic expressions. Can all of that be said of all the 'new' words? I don't know. I do know that many of the 'new' words have to do with technology, maybe dialogue from movies. I know this happens to all languages in all cultures. Anyone have an opinion? I have to think on this.

Will Rogers had a lot to say about people, especially politicians and it was always pithy and made a point.

Language changes in the average lifetime--not just the words and phrases but what they refer to and how they are used. There's a thread on this---"words your grandparents uses"--in this forum. The two most obvious examples of changes in meaning in recent years are "gay" and "Kool-Aid drinker".

I've tried re-reading old novels that I read and enjoyed 50 years ago when I was in high school and after a few chapter gave up on most of them. Language and writing styles have changed so much over the years that I found most of those old novels pretty boring.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by SandHills

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Originally Posted by Seagrape Grove

Good one. Most people won't get it.

I have used it! I first heard it on a TV show, probably back in the Seventies.