djimbe wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:47 pm
ut referring to the mid-day meal as "dinner" and the end of the day meal as "supper", which is real common among the older more hillbilly type millwrights I work with and also my 94 year old mother's family from Nebraska
I've been using supper in place of dinner for a good while now. Also a fan of taking constitutionals and calling a refrigerator the "frigidaire" or "ice box" to memorialize my late great-grandmother.
Re: Old man phrases you like
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:36 pm
by biscuitdough
One I never cared for: "in back of" for "behind". I guess it makes sense. We have "in front of". I just don't like the sound of it.
I dated a Serb many years ago and picked up "on a horse", meaning being on your way to success. Example: "So I need to speak to the guy next week, but as long as his wife is back and he knows how to sit in a corner, I'm on a horse."
We have that "On a horse" or "I'm on a horse" phrase here in Croatia as well.
Re: Old man phrases you like
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:02 pm
by Kniferide
My grandpa used to call me " Half a bubble off" which I like.