minus-squareconsidine@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something only old people say?linkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-215 hours ago“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short) “Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange) “Dance maven” “I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy) “Copacetic” (it’s all good) “Heavy” (meaning important, grave) I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions. linkfedilink
“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)
“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)
“Dance maven”
“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)
“Copacetic” (it’s all good)
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.