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In addition to my "see" and "say" statements, I'd also like to see the word "you" return to the end of sentences, like Ernest Borgnine was so good at doing. "Hey, that's about enough, you!" Gordon Ramsay still uses it frequently. "Come 'ere, you."
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Tickety-boo!
Means: okay, all right
"All the arrangements made were tickety-boo!"
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I don't know if it was ever a real phrase or not, but because I grew up watching The Thing From Another World on VHS, I've been known to say "Holy cats" on occasion.  I was allowed to use it as a "swear" when I was little since it wasn't harsh like some of the other words out there. LOL!!
I just heard Terry Moore in TWO OF A KIND (1952?) say (in response to someone asking "What prompted him to tell you that?")
"Tell me? CATS!! I practically had to drag it out of him!"
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I think "daddy-o" needs to come back.
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And "shoe leather"
"He lives walking distance from work and his commute only costs him shoe leather."
"She's just the prettiest thing that ever stepped in shoe leather."
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"Gee, that's just swell!"
I want cops to be coppers again. I want crooks to be mugs again. And I officially want the word "moron" to be replaced with the Bugs Bunny variation, "maroon".
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My 99 year-old great aunt uses one that I find hilarious, and I wonder how many people today would even understand it. Referring to someone who talks too much: "She must have been vaccinated with a Victrola needle."
That one's a reach, but worthwhile.
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My 99 year-old great aunt uses one that I find hilarious, and I wonder how many people today would even understand it. Referring to someone who talks too much: "She must have been vaccinated with a Victrola needle."
That's actually a line of dialogue (or a paraphrase) from DUCK SOUP (1933).
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