The chilly weather has given me an excellent excuse to make fresh bread in the bread maker. One of my favorite breakfasts is fresh bread hot from the bread machine with cheesy scrambled eggs on.
Once the bread cools, I have to slice it and store it. Slicing it is such a pain--I never get any two right. As I was slicing this morning, a saying I often heard as a kid that I don't hear much anymore is " . . .greatest thing since sliced bread."
I imagine that when whatever bread slicer was first invented it was hailed with relief by anyone as clumsy as I am. But bread has come sliced for a long time now.
Anyway, I was trying to think of other expressions that have fallen out of regular use. Like the phone ringing off the hook. (I do remember phones on hooks.) "Don't fold, spindle, or mutilate" was a big joke when I was a teen.
My grandmother used to use expressions common to her day, one of them being "He don't have a pot to piss in or a window to toss it outa," about someone she considered not just poor but lazy. (And such poor people, she said, were 'on relief.')
Galvanized. Simonized. Paper drives, blue chip stamps . . .
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