Old phrases that you want to resurrect.

The_Minister

I'm reading Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde at the moment, and at the very start of the book, one man is telling a story to another man and he replies

"Yes, I know," said Utterson; "I know it must seem strange. The fact is, if I do not ask you the name of the other party, it is because I know it already. You see, Richard, your tale has gone home. If you have been inexact in any point, you had better correct it."

the phrase that I liked was

your tale has gone home

.

That's a lovely way to describe a phenomenon that all of us have experienced at one point or another: you tell a story about someone, and then you find that the person you are telling knows the people in the story.

As happened to me:
The_Minister: X is a bastard. What a bastard. *continue in that vein*
Girl: X is my cousin
The_Minister: .....
*Deep intake of breath from everyone*
Everyone: .....
The _Minister: He's still a bastard.



What phrases do you wish were still used today, and which phrases would you like to see return to common usage?

marcsignal

"When poverty comes in the door, Love flies out the window"

:pac:

FearDark

Fu*k a duck.

Sharpshooter

The_Minister wrote: »

What phrases do you wish were still used today, and which phrases would you like to see return to common usage?

My dad always used the expression " Me Oul Flower" when my mam was alive.

I never knew what it meant but it seemed to be an endearment of sorts to herself and their friends.

He never said it again after she died, so I guess it was a phrase that was special to both of them.

Not the usual AH response, but the OP got me remembering.

FX Meister

"He puts it all the way up me gowl"

Super-Rush

I thought we'd have it off tonight

nobodythere

Gammy.

I remember when everything was gammy!

javaboy

grasshopa wrote: »

Gammy.

I remember when everything was gammy!

Me too. Somehow everything just got banjaxed along the way and great words like gammy fell by the wayside.

Donny5

The phrase Yeah, right! said without irony.

Snowie

I shifted your one last night!

where the hell did some one get shift from ?

anonymous_joe

The_Minister wrote: »

I'm reading Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde at the moment, and at the very start of the book, one man is telling a story to another man and he replies
the phrase that I liked was .

That's a lovely way to describe a phenomenon that all of us have experienced at one point or another: you tell a story about someone, and then you find that the person you are telling knows the people in the story.

As happened to me:
The_Minister: X is a bastard. What a bastard. *continue in that vein*
Girl: X is my cousin
The_Minister: .....
*Deep intake of breath from everyone*
Everyone: .....
The _Minister: He's still a bastard.



What phrases do you wish were still used today, and which phrases would you like to see return to common usage?

Now how unlike you that was.

It's not a phrase per sé, but I always think that language has become a bit terse and lost some of the florid qualities that once would have been de rigeur.

Tar.Aldarion

Quit jivin' with me, tuurrrkey!

tech77

Donny5 wrote: »

The phrase Yeah, right! said without irony.

Good luck with that one.

kraggy

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

I shifted your one last night!

where the hell did some one get shift from ?

We say "shift" in Galway.

It's better than "snog" which is yet another crap term imported from Britain.

Which is something that really irks me, the import of such terms E.g. the use of "mate" (very common in the soccer and djing fora).

Why can't we remain who we are and keep our own phrases and stop using others.

Our individuality will be swallowed whole one of these days.

It's quite sad.

owenmakken

Seig Heil mein Fuher

javaboy

owenmakken wrote: »

Seig Heil mein Fuher

Das rereg poster is ein nuisance poster.

Donny5

tech77 wrote: »

Good luck with that one.

Yeah, right!

Creamy Goodness

You taffer

Hagar

Gammy was never really gammy, it was game, as in to have "a game leg". God only know why the Irish, possibly only we Dubs, pronounced it gam-e.


Main Entry: game Part of Speech: adjective Definition: debilitated Synonyms: ailing, bad, crippled, deformed, disabled, incapacitated, injured, lame, maimed, weak

Caoimhín

The head on you and the the price of Turnips...

KoemansCC

Referring to the aesthetic qualities of a woman...

"It's like her face was on fire and someone put her out with a shovel..."

Hagar

A penny looking down on a ha'penny.


A tuppence ha'penny piece of junk.

Beruthiel

Caoimhín wrote: »

The head on you and the the price of Turnips...

No. No. No.

It's:
What's that got to do with the price of turnips?

OldGoat

We had such a gay time.
I like the word 'gay' and I want it back. Come to think of it I like the word 'queer' too.

KTRIC

OldGoat wrote: »

We had such a gay time.
I like the word 'gay' and I want it back. Come to think of it I like the word 'queer' too.

Totally agree.

When I was young I remember people referring to things / people as "queer looking". It was meant as strange and not the way it used today.

3qsmavrod5twfe

Come-back to everything

"And so's your face"

I revived it for a weekend and firstly it made everyone laugh, then bored and then angry.

I have no idea where this supposed "line" is so how am I supposed to know if I've crossed it. Mind you, I found a good indication of when you have crossed the line is the frequency of punches to the arm...:D

junior_apollo

I'd hate to think we started using all the old words again... NOTTTT!

Quazzie

kraggy wrote: »

We say "shift" in Galway.

It's better than "snog" which is yet another crap term imported from Britain.

Its also better than meet which seems to be the norm in Dublin.

I remember a time when I was younger and I was in crumlin hospital after a pretty bad fall. I was about ten at the time and was in ICU for a week. Anyways long story short, when I got out I got put into a room on my own as I was older than most of the others there. One evening two girls walked into my room and asked me if I wanted to "meet" their friends Tracey. Me, being a nice country boy said yes, as I knew I'd be there for at least another fortnight, and knowing someone else on the ward wouldn't be any harm.

So I walked over to her room about an hour later and as soon as I walked in, her two friends got up and walked out. Wondering if I brought a smell with me I thought it was very weird, but sat down anyway. Then she just pounced. There I was sitting on a chair, shifting a girl I'd never met till ten seconds ago and never even spoke to. Was a real weird experience at the time.

For ages after that I thought all Dublin girls were easy and they just shifted everyone straight off. That was until I later found out that "meet" in Dublin actually means shift.

Crazyivan 1979

Not many use the word "poxy" anymore, and I used to know people that found it quite offensive, God knows why.

Mr. Burns is the king of words/ phrases that have gone out of use ("post haste" or "Ningcum-poop") and a few that were never word phrases (" telephonica machine" or "learn-a-torium").

domcq

My great grandmother had one for someone who was fond of a drop: He/She could drink a path through a lake...

cherubaul

jaysus you're notas green as you are cabbage lookin.

love that phrase.