Sayings that are no longer relevant.

Milder expletives used to be the norm, like “Holy Cow!” My mother used to say “Oh, Crow!” when she was really disgusted. Believe me, you’d know it! If you were in trouble, you used to be “in Dutch.” Then you might get ”read the riot act,” given “Hail Columbia,” or “your name would be Mudd” (after the doctor who helped John Wilkes Booth). You’d be “in the doghouse” then. In these days of the F-bomb everywhere, I kinda miss those times… 🙀
 


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