words your grandparents used (meaning, speech, quote)

[Gerania]

Someone will be crying, and it won't be me. My grandmother used to say that. She'd raised four children and knew when an accident was imminent.

[Tia 914]

One came up in a book I was reading: vapours. Presumably some kind of nervous reaction mostly limited to women.

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by Tia 914

One came up in a book I was reading: vapours. Presumably some kind of nervous reaction mostly limited to women.

This is sometimes called a "swoon". I wonder if any women ever have these "spells" anymore?

[Pocopsonite]

My grandparents sat on a davenport when they watched TV.

[Nomadicus]

Hoodwinking

[in_newengland]

To call someone a card. "He was such a card" meant that he was really funny, a jokester, fun to be around.

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

To call someone a card. "He was such a card" meant that he was really funny, a jokester, fun to be around.

or "he is such a pistol"

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

To call someone a card. "He was such a card" meant that he was really funny, a jokester, fun to be around.

I'd forgotten about that.

Hey, last week I read a new book which I'd read thirty years ago.

[Delahanty]

Tarnation.

[rodentraiser]

Smooth. As in: That guy was soooo smooth.

I heard a word I hadn't heard in a while yesterday. Angleworm. Usually people just call them worms now. We always used to call them angleworms. Oops - does that mean I'm as old as your grandparents now? Perish the thought!

Oh, yeah, and do your grandparents call it a fridge, or an icebox?