Old but good expressions

[Nabubrush]

So, I call my sweetie a dish. I know people don't use that expression much anymore, but it certainly fits her. Anybody else?

I'm also kind of crotchety sometimes.

[pmcd9]

I use 'oh dear' instead of 'oh shit' or 'oh fuck.'

I thought I was being ironic, me, a big burly guy using an expression most closely associated with the stereotypical grandmother character.  But then I heard Robert Plant say it on HTWWW and realized I have been aligned with the height of cool all along.

~Paul

[CortJstr]

I picked up "cookin' with gas" for a while.

[Nabubrush]

I got "cookin' with gas" and "you are getting on my last nerve" from a woman I worked with.

[andalucia]

Pretty much everything I say is either to some extent antiquated or just otherwise outside the vernacular: rad, tubular, nifty, swell, my stars!, egad!, drat!, and so on.  

I also tend to speak even in casual circumstances with extreme technical correctness and am generally perceived as not making much sense.

So basically I really dislike the way in which the Youth of Today express themselves and am resisting it as much as I can.

Oh yeah, and I'm really, really pretentious.

[jough]

I said that a girl was "the bee's knees" the other day, and use the phrase "the living end" quite often.

Golly, this sure is swell!

[arkabee]

i'm not sure if it's so much antiquated as it is just dumb, but i have a tendency to say "now we're cookin' with crisco".

[CortJstr]

I said that a girl was "the bee's knees" the other day, and use the phrase "the living end" quite often.

Golly, this sure is swell!

I can't say/hear "bee's knees" without following it up with "the wasp's nipples."

And lately I've taken to saying "aces!" Sometimes I even throw in a "baby" afterwards.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I keep using "I'll give you what for!"  It's definitely antiquated, as I picked it up from 1936 Strong Bad.

[slink]

I occasionally use 'I'll tell you this for free'. Which gets odd looks.
'Mutt's Nutt's' I guess isn't so old fashioned but gets said.

Most of the things I say are fairly antiquated too really. Or I guess I just feel that way because I tend to speak in good English, while no one else around me does.

My brother had an unfortunate phase when he kept saying 'cool beans'. It was frustrating.

[jough]

I'd re-join this discussion, but I've got to see a man about a dog.

[Nabubrush]

'I'll tell you this for free'

Oh my, yes.

I call the sweet girl a dame sometimes, too. She likes it when I say things like that.

[arkabee]

My brother had an unfortunate phase when he kept saying 'cool beans'. It was frustrating.

that was my catch-phrase for awhile, i say it on occassion still but less and less as it was "co-opted" by a nemesis.

i really don't know the etymology of it, though, nor do i recall when or where it was that i picked it up.  i seem to recall that it was during a go at college, but those days are hazy.

i guess i'm curious as to why you would deem such a phase as "unfortunate".

[Nabubrush]

Some people here at work say 'bad chicken' to refer to something with approval. That's unfortunate.

[Ben-San]

I've been known to refer to ill-advised behaviors as "a chump's game", and occasionally call people "ya mooks".