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Succotash!
...as in, "We're having succotash with dinner tonight!", always exclaimed with glee by elderly folks years ago.
I like almost all vegetables, but succotash is just not something about which I can become excited. However, when I was a child (which was--admittedly--long ago), it seemed that few menu items got elderly folks as excited as...succotash.
Why was there so much glee associated with succotash?
I have no clue!
They were probably so happy that someone came up with the idea to mix two vegetables together, it rocked their world. Just like peas and carrots and succotash.
When I was young "fresh" was most often used to describe a guy's behavior who was flirting a bit obnoxiously. It more or less meant a smart mouth or someone who was overstepping their bounds.
Have to reply to this one. My 14 year old grandson and all his friends use the word fresh all the time. Now it means you look sharp. cleaned up, **** showered and shaved in other words.
Occasionally, my mother--who was born in 1911--would use a phrase that she had heard her father say. The phrase was, "he stuck his azz (posterior) in a butter tub", and it apparently referred to somebody who had managed to achieve a very lucrative position.
Because her father was born in England, it is possible that this phrase is of English origin, but that is just a guess. Surely it is an archaic expression, no matter where it originated.
Has anyone else ever heard that expression?
My friend born in Florida says something similar, she says "she stuck her toe in it" Sounds disgusting but it means it is really good and the person outdid themself.
I never understood what he drove his Chevy to. It was dry anyway, whatever it was.
Same here--my grandmother used to ask if I were out on my "wheel" (bicycle.)
"Oh my stars and garters!" (Did anyone really used to say that?)
Lol. Never heard that one. Heard oh my stars
of course.
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Sixty years ago when I was young and single and dating, we didn't admit it if we were also having sex with our boyfriends. 
