Words and Phrases You Don't Hear Anymore

Sorry to flip to negative side, but One that became popular in the mid 90’s that I hated then and glad it’s long gone is “been there, done that”. Ugh I cringed every time someone said that. I find over last 2 years or so when someone says something that another person agrees with, the response is “I know, right?” I never say this but I hear it everywhere now. Don’t care for it. One thing I heard that popped up about 10-15 years ago that still seems popular to day is when people answer a question with “ well yes and no”. I originally noticed this creeping into the workplace maybe a decade or so ago , and primarily I took this a way a person can come across as intelligent in meetings without providing a clear answer to a question. I never bought into the BS. Saw these people as being complete frauds or cowards.
 
God's lonely asperger said:
"Don't spend it all in one place". Either this was always a joke on old people and inflation, or it's just not taken seriously these days. Either way I'd chalk it on the inflation hit list.
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This might be a cultural difference, but I understand it as: don't spend all money in one specific place - brothel, bar, casino, etc.
 
Valentin Pearson said:
Anything beyond pidgin english.
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That is true, there's a strong mass migration factor to it. There are a lot of expressions I could never use in my hometown, because the level of language has been brought down by immigrants so much.

Not only do they not understand that it behooves one to have their language at their disposal, they wouldn't even understand that statement.
 
pole85 said:
Woke culture is so deep in California that I swear even the word renege, as in renege on a deal, takes the air out of a conversation sometimes. Maybe it's because sometimes people spell and pronounce it renig.

Also, I haven't heard people say Jerry-rig in a long time... Mostly because fewer and fewer people even have the skills or desire to jerry rig anything back into working form.
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It's not "jerry-rig", it's "jury-rig." It's a corruption of the French word "jour" (day) referring to something which is a temporary fix, i.e., " for the day." It's an old nautical expression.
 
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