Phrases we still use that no longer make sense

[PJTHEDOORS]

In my day music was music

Day/Night is for the one's awake. So my phrase isn't acceptable here. Good. I see differently I guess.

 

[kskboys]

you do by the way

You sound like a broken record. You sound like a broken record. You sound like a broken record!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

Watching game tape.

You know, you're right, and I still say it myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Hold your horses.

 

[BigStar]

Day/Night is for the one's awake. So my phrase isn't acceptable here. Good. I see differently I guess.

I didn't have an issue (took me a minute to realize it's gone) but could see where it's better served in the music thread. Give examples as to why rock holds the test of time where rap doesn't or won't, etc.

 

[Tabascocat]

Be home before the street lights come on......

 

[Runwildboys]

I get my paycheck on Friday. (Actually, a direct deposit.)

Not everyone has Direct Deposit.

 

[Runwildboys]

"It's your dime."

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Not everyone has Direct Deposit.

That's true. Some people still use checks, at least in the US. In Switzerland, however, there are no more checks. The Swiss government got rid of them.

 

[cowboyec]

wanna get a movie from blockbuster?

 

[YosemiteSam]

wanna get a movie from blockbuster?

I don't know anyone who says this today.

 

[GMO415]

Today I'm doing "bi's and tri's" at the gym......

Don't hear any millennials using that....it has a WHOLE new meaning today.

 

[GMO415]

He and she....

Hahaha......our grandchildren will find our era so sexist. They won't phantom that bathrooms used to be segregated by sex.

 

[cowboyec]

I don't know anyone who says this today.

I do when referenceing red-box....kids hate it but I always laugh.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

"I'll cut you a check." Way back when, checks weren't perforated from one another and you would actually have to cut them apart with something.

 

[kskboys]

Cash on the barrelhead.

Came from the time when business was conducted over a barrel, and the money was laid on the top of the barrell when paying. This one is started to fall out of use, but I do still hear it.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Cash on the barrelhead.

Came from the time when business was conducted over a barrel, and the money was laid on the top of the barrell when paying. This one is started to fall out of use, but I do still hear it.

It it related to that expression, "He has him over the barrel"? which means he has all the leverage in the transaction.

 

[jwooten15]

Carbon copy

A cashier "ringing up" a customer

"let's rewind", nothing "winds" anymore

 

[jsb357]

"let's rewind", nothing "winds" anymore

that's untrue...

I rewound a VHS tape of the Jimmy Johnson's second Super Bowl vs Buffalo just last week.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

"Pencil me in" is quickly going obsolete.