Outdated phrases Game

writeread

Wed, Jan 03 2024, 7:46 pm

First poster lists a phrase that's outdated. Next poster has to explain what the phrase means to the modern generation, and gives another phrase.

For example:

Hang up the phone.

ETA: explain the original, outdated meaning of the phrase, not what it is used to mean now. As in, what does the phrase literally mean, and how did that outdated technology work.

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writeread

Wed, Jan 03 2024, 7:49 pm

You used to have to put the phone back on a hook, that is, hang it up, to end a call.

Let's rewind.

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The Happy Wife

Wed, Jan 03 2024, 8:09 pm

writeread wrote:

You used to have to put the phone back on a hook, hence hang it up, to end a call.

Let's rewind.

Recordings used to be on physical tape wound up on a spindle, like tape on a roll. To go back to an earlier part of the recording, thentape had to be wound up again. In other words, rewind.

A broken record.

mommyla

Wed, Jan 03 2024, 8:35 pm

The Happy Wife wrote:

In the Dark Ages, we listened to music on records, which looked like giant bumpy black CDs. If a record was scratched or broken, it would repeat a part of the music until you lifted the needle on the record player and moved it.

Roll down the window.

writeread

Sun, Jan 07 2024, 7:45 pm

effess wrote:

Turn the handle to lower the window.

Driving a Cadillac

Cadillacs used to be the fanciest cars, in a luxury- conspicuous consumption type of way.

Shift gears

simcha4

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 9:12 am

writeread wrote:

Cadillacs used to be the fanciest cars, in a luxury- conspicuous consumption type of way.

Shift gears

You're in middle of doing something when you suddenly change the way you're doing it.

Barking up the wrong tree.

Living Princess

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 9:31 am

writeread wrote:

Cadillacs used to be the fanciest cars, in a luxury- conspicuous consumption type of way.

Shift gears

I assume you're referring to driving a stick/manual car. So you need to change gears while you're driving depending on speed. There are some countries where the majority still driver manual cars, they are cheaper to driver and to repair especially the gear box.

Keep the negatives

(Simcha4 you might be too young for this game;-) phrase needs to be outdated so I'd say you need to be appx 40+ but of course I might be wrong)

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Comptroller

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 9:34 am

Living Princess wrote:

Keep the negatives

Yes, that's outdated indeed, from the time where photography was not digital, but you had a film, which would be transformed in negatives, where the colours were inverted, black was white and white was black. And from those negatives, the positives, the proper pictures were made. If you wanted to have a second examplary of a picture, if you wanted a blown up version of a picture, you needed the negatvies.

Don't put the cart in front of the horses.

GLUE

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 1:04 pm

Comptroller wrote:

Don't put the cart in front of the horses.

It means doing something very backwards and hard

Put the peddle to the medal

effess

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 8:47 pm

GLUE wrote:

It means doing something very backwards and hard

Put the peddle to the medal

Hurry up (?)

shanie5

Sun, Jan 21 2024, 10:12 pm

GLUE wrote:

It means doing something very backwards and hard

Put the peddle to the medal

That's Pedal to the Metal

It means pressing down (to the floor) on the car accelerator pedal to speed up.

Bite the Bullet

Odelyah

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 12:57 am

shanie5 wrote:

That's Pedal to the Metal

It means pressing down (to the floor) on the car accelerator pedal to speed up.

Bite the Bullet

I think maybe if a soldier needed surgery without anesthesia they would have him bite a bullet?

It means to tough it out, push yourself to do something even though it's hard.

blow a fuse

Odelyah

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:02 am

Comptroller wrote:

Fuses still exist and you can still blow them...???

hm ok. I thought they were mostly obsolete. replaced by circuit breakers which aren't actual fuses, no?

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:27 am

Zoom in

Dial a friend

Giddy up

Shmiren the rader....oil the wheels

Bizen kretchma darf men oich a trink....

The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Carbon copy

smetena

Oifen ganev Brent dus hitel.....or er hut piter oifen kup.....

Chaptzem....

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 1:34 am

Redt a shidduch.....reden a shidduch.

Firen/shleppen de leitzes ......pull the reigns