pulling myself up by my bootstraps
You kids, get off my lawn!
“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.
If the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.
I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium
Dad gum
I couldn’t remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day… so that
Boy, I sure love owning a house.
Hey, I’m heading into my late 40s and I haven’t been able to say that yet lol
So not old, cool
“moderate Republicans”
“Kids these days don’t want to work.”
Ouch! I must have slept wrong.
After living with my grandma for so long I started saying “god willing” and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol
Say inshallah instead
“Which was the style at the time…”
I keep saying that to my boy, but even the reference goes over his head it’s so old.
“Do you want to go to the pictures?”
“Back in my day”
“I’m not THAT old, but …”
“Here, have a Werther’s.”
I’m in my 20s and have for years had a stash of these…
Tight timeline, but I guess you could be a grandparent.
