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Meaningless expressions
Posted by Toffee the Cat on 17 February 2010 - 5:23pm.
An expression which must be meaningless to the majority these days occurred to me today - raining stair rods. Who remembers stair rods? A present-day equivalent might be raining bar codes. Any other present-day equivalents for outdated and incomprehensible expressions?
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I use...
..."raining stair rods" all the time.
I've also got real stair rods, so know exactly what I mean.
I still say
Set the video - as in 'have you/shall I' when recording something on Sky Plus
nipples
like chapel hat pegs. Goes against the pc me, but an old school friend used to use the expression and its comic vulgarity still makes me chortle.
Don't have Sky Plus
but a Sony hard disk recorder and I still "tape" tv programmes. The youngsters don't understand me, but I'm ok with that. Got stair rods, too. They look nice.
got a DVD recorder last year
and I try using 'discing' but it doesn't feel right
Washing related
Something being 'mangled'/'going through the wringer'. I can just about remember one of these at my auntie's place in the 60s.