It usually comes up in our house as a suggestion for what a kid should do when they complain of boredom, and keep rejecting suggestions to do some list of useful tasks. It's generally followed by "slap round the face with a wet fish?"
On the sub-equatorial thread there was a mention of a 'supermarket'. That is surely a rarity these days. The only one I know of around here is a family-run corner store that sells everything, rather that the big grocery stores that used to be called supermarkets.
Supermarkets are still alive and widespread in the UK. What has disappeared is the department store. If there is an agglomeration of different business under one roof, it's usually a mall ('arcade' seems to have disappeared as well).
On the sub-equatorial thread there was a mention of a 'supermarket'. That is surely a rarity these days. The only one I know of around here is a family-run corner store that sells everything, rather that the big grocery stores that used to be called supermarkets.
Supermarket was never widely used in these parts, at least not in my experience. We all knew what it meant, of course, but in everyday conversation, that place was called a grocery store rather than a supermarket.
It strikes me that much of what we’re talking about here are not just phrases that date us, but that locate both in a particular time and a particular place. I’m of a comparable age of many posters here, I think, but the majority of the phrases mentioned in this thread are meaningless to me, not because I’m too young to have heard them but because I’m from a part of the world where they were never familiar to start with.
I don’t think that’s at all surprising. It’s something to enjoy.
I remembered the phrase, and that it was a cartoon cat, but I'm glad @ThunderBunk answered because the question would have nigged all afternoon if he hadn't.
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It usually comes up in our house as a suggestion for what a kid should do when they complain of boredom, and keep rejecting suggestions to do some list of useful tasks. It's generally followed by "slap round the face with a wet fish?"
Nice!
It strikes me that much of what we’re talking about here are not just phrases that date us, but that locate both in a particular time and a particular place. I’m of a comparable age of many posters here, I think, but the majority of the phrases mentioned in this thread are meaningless to me, not because I’m too young to have heard them but because I’m from a part of the world where they were never familiar to start with.
I don’t think that’s at all surprising. It’s something to enjoy.
And this reminds me of what used to be said here: “More ____ than Carter has little pills.” (See here for background.)
Eh?????
Gertcha !
To 'rabbit' is to talk - chatter - a lot. Sainsbury's, a grocers, sold cheap and popular rabbit meat in their butcher's department.
Again, more of a place reference than a date one.
ETA - read all about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snagglepuss
well, heavens to murgatroid!
Many thanks!
According to Mrs RR I say it quite a lot ....