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Retro Phrases, Words and Meanings
Does anyone remember some of the phrases, words and meanings, which are quietly disappearing onto the endangered list? Do you have any to add to the list?
Fender Skirts
Curb Feelers
Steering Knobs aka: Suicide Knob
Continental Kits
Emergency brakes
Foot Feed
Running Board
Brassiere, now called Bra
Picture show
Rat Fink
Percolator, now called Coffee Maker
DynaFlow
Supper, now called Dinner
1963 Admiral TV, with Spectra Vision
Store-bought, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.
Coast to Coast is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'world wide' for granted
Wall-to-Wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wall-to-wall carpeting
In a family way? It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant' was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had all that talk about stork visits and 'being in a family way' or simply expecting.
tica... 
xox
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| July 8, 2008, 03:08 |
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69oak69
64 / male
Heart of Illinois, Illinois, US
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Re: Retro Phrases, Words and Meanings
When I was growing up on the farm 40 some years ago the evening meal was called supper, but my cousins in town called it "dinner", and in our local Illinois dialect store-bought stuff was "boughten". I dont miss fender skirts though. I remember putting snow tires on my grandad's Buick and spending more time putting the *#@$% fender skirts back on than I did in chaging the tires.
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| July 23, 2008, 13:47 |
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