Old phrases you want to make a comeback.

[Jayson1]

I got 5 to start with

1 Smell you later.

2 Yo Yo Yo what's up!

3 Hey, Bill the 90s called and they want your jeans back or any similar paraphrasing.

4 Talk to the hand.

5 Your momma jokes.

Jason

 

[Tenacity]

"Don't worry 'bout it."

First Person: Who'd you vote for in the late election?
Second Person: Don't worry 'bout it.

 

[Jayson1]

A few more:

As I live and breath.

Smooth move exlax

As If.

Care to take on someone your own size.

Bite me

Frak or Frell being used by nerds.

Don't make me come back there, or it's companion phrase, One more word and we are going home and yet it's other companion phrase, That's it! Were going home!

Eat me.

Make like a tree.. and get out of here.

Jason

 

[1001001]

I like the word "Jamoke".

That should come back.

"What do I look like, a jamoke?"

 

[GNDN18]

Up your nose with a rubber hose.

Sit on it.

Would you believe.

Missed it by that much.

 

[Armus]

Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I got 5 to start with

When I saw the thread title, I was expecting Prohibition/Depression-era phrases, not stuff from within (most of?) our lifetimes. Are you sure you really want these to "come back", or did you just want to make a list of "things I used to say as a kid"?

1 Smell you later.

I have it on good authority that this will become the standard phrase for "goodbye" any day now.

3 Hey, Bill the 90s called and they want your jeans back or any similar paraphrasing.

People around here still seem to say variations on this one.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wazzup!!

 

[Miss Chicken]

I cannot think of any phrases but there are three words that I would love to make a comeback. They are words that survived in Tasmania long after they became extinct elsewhere (with the exception of at least one which survived as long in Newfoundland). These were common words when I was young but their use has greatly decline in the last three or four decades.

The words are

Rummin - an endearing fool (from rum one = a drunk)
Nointer - a naughty child though it is a more endearing term than 'brat' (from anointed ie christened). This is the word that survived in Newfoundland
Yaffler (yaffle, yaffling) someone who talks too much. The word 'yaffle' exists in Newfoundland with a different meaning, it means 'by the armful' such as the pick up a yaffle of wood, or to sell a yaffle of fish.

The Tasmanian word seems to come from a folk name for the European green woodpecker

Professor Yaffle', the wooden bookend character in the 1974 children's animation series Bagpuss,[15] was based loosely upon the green woodpecker.[16] 'Yaffle' was among many English folk names for the European green woodpecker relating to its laughing call; others include laughing Betsey, yaffingale, yappingale and Jack Eikle. Other names, including rain-bird, weather cock and wet bird, suggest its supposed ability to bring on rain.[17]

 

[Tenacity]

"Word."

If only so someone could explain to me what it means.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Word up, yo.

 

[Jayson1]

Got a few more.

Don't Taser me Bro.

I love it when a plan comes together.

This time it's personal.

Hug it out.

I came, I saw, I kicked butt.

Spank the Monkey.

When homes were called either pad's or cribs.

French Fries and taters, but only if you can do a passable Karl voice.

Jason

 

[Captain Nebula]

This is a Star Trek forum and nobody said "That's the ticket"?

 

[Jayson1]

This is a Star Trek forum and nobody said "That's the ticket"?

I think you got to add a yeah, yeah before that to really capture the John Lovitz line.

Jason

 

[Tosk]

Catch you on the flip-side. I still use it.

 

[Jayson1]

A few more:

Calling someone a, smarty pants.

Why don't you go fuck yourself and the horse you came on.

Did I do that! Like Karl in above post you got to do a good Urkel voice.

Those sound like, you problems.

Jason

 

[Mr Soak]

That's the second largest monkey head I've ever seen!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Fugying......pronounced Fu...GAY...ING.......i assume as i am only going by how it sounds as i have never seen it in written form.

It's what my wee granny would say to me when in the 70s when she found me in places i should not be...."Whit are ye fugying fur"......"come oot oh there and stop fugying"........never heard anybody else use it ever or even seen it written down.

 

[Jayson1]

Few Moore:

That Figures!

Wax on, Wax Off.

Where not in Kansas, anymore!

How Lame! or Lame! or Lame O.

Whatcha Talking About Willis!

Where's the Beef!

Smoke'm if you got em.

Your going down!

I thought you were going to be, taller.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!


Jason

 

[Kor]

Referring to someone as a "wise guy." I usually only hear this in older movies. Though I heard a middle-aged Italian-American business associate from the East coast use this expression recently.

I think I'll start using it in daily life.

Kor