29 Outdated Words And Phrases Some Older Folks Use That Puzzle Millennials And Gen Zers In This Online Group

Anyone else get told they were “Cruisin for a bruisin” as a kid or just me?

My late father (born in '33) used to say he'd been "d**ked by the dangling dong of destiny" when something went wrong that was out of his control.

When I was a kid and we had a slow start to our day my mother would say “we’re off like a herd of turtles” still makes me smile

There was an older gentleman, about 70, that I used to work with that looked at me and said “His butter done slid off his biscuit” referring to another coworker acting crazy. I’m in southern Kentucky.

My grandpa likes to use the phrase "not my monkey, not my circus"

to everyone asking if he's Polish, we're Latino. He says it in both Spanish and English, "no es mi circo, no son mis monos". I didn't realize until writing it out that he flips the order in English.

answers the phone

“Yellow!”

Went into a speed shop the other day and overheard the shop owner talking to someone on the phone. Man was 60+ and said un-ironically "Catch ya on the flip side Daddio" to end the conversation he was having.

slight stray from question, my english professor says “heavens to betsy”

You can call me anything you like except late for dinner!

I use this all the time and my wife tells me that’s something only old men say

“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas”

My nana says “That really turns me on” about ANYTHING. Good ice cream, a movie, music, doesn’t matter.

"Davenport" to mean couch. Apparently, it was a name-brand couch back in the day.

My mom was not a fan of colorful language, I can't recall ever hearing an f-bomb escape her lips. But if she was mad at someone, she would say "They can just go piss up a rope!" I still don't know WTF she meant.

My dad used to say “That’ll put lead in your pencil”.

My mother used to say "he's got his wobbly boots on" whenever she saw someone drunk.

When you put something in your mouth it's really hot and react.

Que grandma "well it wasn't cooked on a f*****k sewing machine"

My father says, and I quote, "Foshizzle Manizzle."

When talking about drinking, my dad says "I got plowed the other night" rather than "I got drunk the other night"

I have a friend, about 15 years older than me, who constantly says s**t like "bump uglies".

My mom is 71, she says things are cool. But she pronounces it like kewel, or kyoul.