What Are Some Words / Phrases That Have Died Out?

Cruisin for a bruisin

Mint (in early 60s - meant really really cool)

Holy moly batman

Okey dokey smokey

Lord love a duck (said by older generation)

Don't know his ass from a hole in the ground

Your mother wears army boots
 
Irregardless


"Origin: Unknown, but many believe it's a portmanteau of irrespective and regardless. Most dictionaries list it as nonstandard or incorrect. This is not a word! It bothers me that I even need to put this on the list, but I still hear people say it, all the time, and not even ironically. They say it because they think it's a real word. But even on the face of it, it doesn't work, because it's a double-negative. The ir- and the -less essentially cancel each other out".
http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-words-that-need-to-die-immediately
 
I have been reading all these posts with interest, and have been laughing at some of the expressions too.I have never used the word cool [but we don't here, so that's why.] Today's youth say that something good is 'well bad' or 'wicked' [that's wick-ed].
We used to say [when teenagers] fab, and my own kids as teenagers said brill, both expressions vanished nowadays.I remember our kids telling me that they had heard 'God nab it' on a US show, and me being doubtful they had heard correctly, but they loved that and used it all the time for a while with great delight.
 
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