Do You Use Any Old Fashioned Slang Or Phrases?

good golly mis Molly

 

Well I never

 

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Hal

 

Dilly-Dally

(to waste time, especially by being slow, or by not being able to make a decision)

 

Love it !
'My old man - said follow the van, and don't dilly dally on the way'
@Nancy Hart

 

There was also a marionette character on the Howdy Doody TV Show named Dilly Dally.

 

I might change me name to Miss Dilly Dally
@Nancy Hart

 

Catty-Corner (diagonally opposite)

Or...it could mean this

 

GREAT picture !

 

Highfalutin.. adj.. pretentious; making claim to, or creating an appearance of, importance or distinction

 

Love that word, used in a song that's now in me head - 'Cowboy Joe'
@Nancy Hart

 

Ragtime Cowboy Joe - Slim and Byron Whitman (featuring Will Rogers in the video)

 

I'll box your ears!

(Often used as a threat. To box someone's ears is to slap them on the side of the head, usually as a punishment.)

I never used this, but my grandmother did.

 

Said a lot over here although not so much these days - kids can do what they like !
@Nancy Hart

 

Gadzooks.