parsizzle@piefed.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 months agoWhat slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?message-squaremessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down12
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareWhat slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?parsizzle@piefed.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square181fedilink
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month ago“Bread and butter”, said to your partner when they’re about to split a pole while you’re walking. “The buffalo is off the nickel”, similar to “the cheese has slid off his cracker”, or, alternatively, depending on usage, a way of saying bullshit. Both of these phrases were said by William Shatner in a Twilight Zone episode, and I’ve never, ever heard any of anyone using them.
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month ago “Bread and butter”, said to your partner when they’re about to split a pole while you’re walking. What? I understood close to zero of the meaning of anything in this sentence.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSay you and your significant other are out walking, and your significant other is about to walk around a pole, allowing the pole to come between you. That’s called splitting a pole and it is considered bad luck as a portent of something coming between you in your relationship. Bread and butter is just the older way of saying don’t split the pole.
“Bread and butter”, said to your partner when they’re about to split a pole while you’re walking.
“The buffalo is off the nickel”, similar to “the cheese has slid off his cracker”, or, alternatively, depending on usage, a way of saying bullshit.
Both of these phrases were said by William Shatner in a Twilight Zone episode, and I’ve never, ever heard any of anyone using them.
What? I understood close to zero of the meaning of anything in this sentence.
Say you and your significant other are out walking, and your significant other is about to walk around a pole, allowing the pole to come between you.
That’s called splitting a pole and it is considered bad luck as a portent of something coming between you in your relationship.
Bread and butter is just the older way of saying don’t split the pole.