Outdated phrases Game

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:25 am

Shifting gears, probably comes from when everything, machinery and other stuff were operating with gears, turning one gear, made the others turn as well, but maybe if it got rusty you needed to change one gear, to make things run.

I have a gear toy, with a crank, where you can turn it in other direction and everything starts turning the opposite way.

Shifting gears, means to change something up so things run differently. Or change modes.

simcha4

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 9:25 am

dankbar wrote:

Welcome back! Simcha! I was thinking about you. We're you logged off, or I didn't join the games?

Thank you so much, Dankbar, you always give me such a warm welcome when I return to Imamother after being out for a while. You really warm my heart. Smile

I guess I've been busy so haven't logged in, in a while.

Bnei Berak 10

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 10:01 am

GLUE wrote:

Does anyone say this anymore?

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones

Yes
It's very international

Bnei Berak 10

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 10:33 am

dankbar wrote:

Thread the needle

Still being used Smile

GLUE

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 4:40 pm

dankbar wrote:

Weave your way thru

A needle in a haystack

Milking someone to the last drop

That means to get the most $$$ out of a person even if he might not have it.
Could be it came from a time when people used to milk cows\goats by hand and would have to squeeze and squeeze until they get everything out? I really don't know.

I just heard this from Pharsha class a few weeks ago, guess what Parsha
Let sleeping dogs lie.

The Happy Wife

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 5:30 pm

I feel like we've lost the original point of this thread.

We're not just explaining old sayings. We're giving a saying that is still used, even though the thing referenced in the expression is no longer commonly in use.

pause

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 5:43 pm

pause wrote:

Sleep tight

Quote:

The classic explanation behind the phrase 'sleep tight' relates to medieval rope-strung beds. These beds, instead of springs, used ropes that needed to be tied tightly under the mattress to keep it securely in place, hence the phrase 'sleep tight'

writeread

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 6:12 pm

pause wrote:

To page someone

Important people used to carry these things called pagers. This was before cell phones. If you needed to reach them you would page them and their pager would beep. Then they would have to find a landline to call you back.

On the other line.

The Happy Wife

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 7:35 pm

effess wrote:

No atheist in a foxhole

Atheists and foxholes still exist.

effess

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 7:52 pm

The Happy Wife wrote:

Atheists and foxholes still exist.

Aren’t we trying to explain old sayings.
Not proving each other wrong

Sprinkles1

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:09 pm

There's a yiddish saying-

ס'העלפט ווי א טויטן באנקעס

The Happy Wife

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:11 pm

effess wrote:

Aren’t we trying to explain old sayings.
Not proving each other wrong

We're trying to explain old sayings that had a literal meaning previously and, although the phrases are still in use, the literal meaning is no longer relevant. Not just explaining it old phrases.

effess

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:26 pm

The Happy Wife wrote:

We're trying to explain old sayings that had a literal meaning previously and, although the phrases are still in use, the literal meaning is no longer relevant. Not just explaining it old phrases.

Would you like to explain the origin of the no atheists in a foxhole saying?

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:26 pm

GLUE wrote:

That means to get the most $$$ out of a person even if he might not have it.
Could be it came from a time when people used to milk cows\goats by hand and would have to squeeze and squeeze until they get everything out? I really don't know.

I think it might also be used as taking advantage from someone

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:29 pm

Sprinkles1 wrote:

There's a yiddish saying-

ס'העלפט ווי א טויטן באנקעס

They used to use leeches to heal people, but they needed to be alive in order to suck out the sick blood from the person. If they were dead, they would help like toite bankes

I guess the expression in yidish blit tzapper.....is similar. Maybe the lice or mosquitos that suck out the blood from a human, for their own benefit

dankbar

Mon, Jan 22 2024, 8:34 pm

writeread wrote:

Before beeps, 3 way calling you needed two phones to talk to 2 or 3 people at once