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Is "5 o'clock shadow" now an obsolete term for the late day beard growth on a man's face when he started out the day clean shaven? I haven't heard that term in decades.
I have heard some older folks refer to aluminum foil as "silver paper", which I consider to be... very curious.
Never heard "silver paper" before but have heard "tin foil" many times, especially in reference to the silver paper once commonly used to wrap individual pieces of gum. Do people still say "tin cans" in reference to any metal can?
Is "5 o'clock shadow" now an obsolete term for the late day beard growth on a man's face when he started out the day clean shaven? I haven't heard that term in decades.
Penny wise pound foolish
Discretion is the better part of valor
In for a penny, in for a pound
Haste makes waste
A bird in the hand beats two in the bush
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Penny wise pound foolish
Discretion is the better part of valor
In for a penny, in for a pound
Haste makes waste
A bird in the hand beats two in the bush
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
I recall all of those from earlier years and the "in for a penny, in for a pound" is still a favorite of mine.
"Waste not, want not" is one I recall and especially this one: "Spare the rod, spoil the child".
Hmmmm.....I wonder if Chinese mothers tell their picky eater children, "Think about all the starving children in America"----I sure heard a lot about the "starving children in China" when I was a child.
Many years ago, I knew somebody who claimed to have gotten an autograph from Mae West. He stated that he handed the aging star an 8x11 inch piece of paper, and she proceeded to ink her name near one of the corners of the paper. She then tore the small portion of the paper bearing her signature from the sheet, and handed him that fragment of paper while purring, "Waste not, want not".
Apocryphal?
I have no idea whether his story was true or not, but it was an entertaining little tale at the time.
"Souse" (pronounced sowse, like 'house') is a word that's seldom used anymore.
My grandparents used it in many ways. The definition is: To soak or drench in fluid.
They 'soused' a horse with cholic with a strong solution of water that soaked tobacco. But they also liked a snack of bread soaked in fresh milk, and called that souse.
Pickling was also called sousing. An alcoholic was soused because he was pickled in alcohol.
In interesting variation of the word pertains to tobacco. Chewing tobacco, the type used to make a drench for a sick horse, was commonly called 'snoose' by the older folks when I was a kid.
Older folks who used tobacco were more likely to chew it than smoke it back then. Instead of asking someone for a smoke, they would ask for some snoose or a chaw- a bite off a roll of tightly twisted tobacco leaf.
Grandma--
Icebox for refrigerator
Davenport for the couch
Heavens to Betsy
All spiffy- dressed up
Wearing your Sunday best
Didn't take a likin' to him
A day late and a dollar short (not good)
Ugly - used for people who act in a bad way (not ugly for how they look-- "she's just so ugly")
They're decent folk
Supper was word used for what we now call lunch so there was breakfast, then supper and dinner
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