- a month of Sundays
- damn it Janet
- exqueeze me
- I’ll file that in my mental Rolodex
- in two shakes of a lamb’s tail
- nails on a blackboard/chalkboard
- Nobody puts baby in the corner
- party hardy
- roll down the window
- Smooth move Ex-Lax
- strap on the ol’ feedbag
- thank you Captain Obvious
- the bees’ knees
- to put the phone down on someone
- to tape something
- to be like a broken record
- veg out
- we’re gonna need a bigger boat
- where’s the beef?
- your ass is grass
At least 3 are movie references: “Damn it Janet” – Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” – Dirty Dancing”, “we’re going to need a bigger boat” – Jaws
I think many popular phrases – at least in the seventies to the nineties came from movies, television and commercials. I suppose that was a new way youth consumed culture back then.
Your ass is grass was usually followed up with “and I’m the lawnmower” but I still hear some of these today (not in real life but on tv shows that I binge).
the only one I still hear occasionally — and it is from seniors, my brigade —- is ‘you sound like a broken record’ —
That’s amazing! I’d forgotten that one!