“Nobody wants to work any more” or “kids aren’t disciplined anymore”, and “millenials…something something something” to refer to any generation younger than them.
Something I once heard my sister say to our grandniece, “I saw the Beatles live.”
“People don’t have pensions anymore?”
No, Mom, we don’t.
In my day.
Let me just talk for a while, you’ll get some
pulling myself up by my bootstraps
You kids, get off my lawn!
Boy, I sure love owning a house.
Hey, I’m heading into my late 40s and I haven’t been able to say that yet lol
So not old, cool
“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)
“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)
“Dance maven”
“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)
“Copacetic” (it’s all good)
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.
If the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.
Heavy? Is there something wrong with the earths gravity??
40 year old movies are not really a major influence on slang & pop culture…
Lmao, k
I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium
“Kids these days don’t want to work.”
Dad gum
I couldn’t remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day… so that
After living with my grandma for so long I started saying “god willing” and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol
Say inshallah instead
“moderate Republicans”
Ouch! I must have slept wrong.
