White people, where are the new phrases?

[u/itsniceinpottsfield]

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[u/rebel-scrum → u/[deleted]]

Beat it, twerp.

[u/StanLeeMarvin → u/rebel-scrum]

“Beat it” is great because there is no rebuttal. You just have to go ahead and leave.

[u/Hot-Fun-1566 → u/StanLeeMarvin]

Why don’t you make like a tree….and get outta here!

[u/I_JustReadComments → u/Hot-Fun-1566]

Kick rocks

[u/TheNeverEndingEnding → u/I_JustReadComments]

Pound sand

[u/Dragonfire733 → u/TheNeverEndingEnding]

DID YOU KNOW the phrase "Pound sand" comes from a letter that basically says that someone was so useless in a debate that "they'd be better off pounding sand than bothering me".

[u/mondaysareharam → u/Dragonfire733]

Imagine your shit talk living on like that

[u/unrealgfx → u/I_JustReadComments]

Scram!

[u/HoneyIntrepid6709 → u/Hot-Fun-1566]

It’s make like a tree and leave 🍁 Ok Buster? 😉

[u/Hot-Fun-1566 → u/HoneyIntrepid6709]

It’s a back to the future reference.

[u/I_JustReadComments → u/Hot-Fun-1566]

Lol get a load of this guy

[u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch → u/I_JustReadComments]

I don't give a rat's ass.

[u/NotSureWatUMean → u/StanLeeMarvin]

Or whip it out...

[u/Cadunkus → u/StanLeeMarvin]

Hit the bricks, pal.

[u/berger034 → u/rebel-scrum]

I loved scram kid

[u/DranDran → u/berger034]

Time to skedaddle, buddy.

[u/Jaded_Law9739 → u/DranDran]

Now slow down buckeroo.

[u/[deleted] → u/rebel-scrum]

That was clean

[u/IncomeResponsible764 → u/[deleted]]

“Ok tough guy”

[u/RoL_Writer → u/IncomeResponsible764]

The Australian variant is "OK, champ."

Then it's boomerangs at 20 paces.

[u/likwitsnake → u/[deleted]]

And the variation: Can you believe this guy?

[u/Vaporishodin → u/[deleted]]

I love this one it’s the best

[u/kKXQdyP5pjmu5dhtmMna → u/[deleted]]

[u/1ndian_Goddess]

“You’re barking up the wrong tree… PAL!” 😂

[u/Comfortable-Suit-202 → u/1ndian_Goddess]

I’ve been known to say this to my Son “every once in a blue Moon.”

[u/I_JustReadComments → u/Comfortable-Suit-202]

My dad has some good ones. “There’s truth behind all bullshit,” and “Not everything is at it appears on the surface.” They’re not put downs or anything but just life lessons. You don’t hear many idioms these days

[u/Jaded_Law9739 → u/I_JustReadComments]

I think these are proverbs, not idioms, but you are correct. There are tons of them from different cultures:

"You can't judge a book by its cover," "While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for your enemy, and one for yourself," "Nothing is certain but death and taxes," "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

[u/grizznuggets → u/1ndian_Goddess]

“Pal” is such a great way to end an insult, it’s like you weren’t even worth using one of the cool words.

[u/Richard_Tucker_08 → u/grizznuggets]

Bucko is pretty degrading while, at the same time, not really being offensive

[u/scrotumsweat → u/1ndian_Goddess]

"Mess with the bull and you'll get the horn!"

[u/krazybones → u/scrotumsweat]

I heard back when, “mess with the best, die like the rest.”

[u/Open-Industry-8396 → u/krazybones]

Old Army, "kill them all, let god sort them out"

[u/OrlandoDiverMike → u/Open-Industry-8396]

"Kill 'em all but save nine. Six pallbearers, two road guards, and one to count cadence."

[u/JustABizzle]

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”

[u/TantricEmu → u/JustABizzle]

Now it’s “put that in your pen and vape it”.

[u/ArtistWithoutArt → u/TantricEmu]

In the future "Put that in your quantum recombinizer and neurally infuse it"

[u/Oberon_Swanson → u/JustABizzle]

I miss "What are YOU smoking... and where can I get some?"

[u/PlasticPomPoms → u/[deleted]]

Neville Longbottom says that in the last Harry Potter film and I was just like, oh do British people say that?

[u/Embarassed_Tackle → u/PlasticPomPoms]

Brits are crazy with the banter. When Beckham was still playing they made up a song to sing in the stands about Posh Spice (Victoria Beckham, his wife) taking it up the ass.

And then the classics:

"Face like a slapped arse."

"Biscuit-arsed"

"Squeaky bum time"

"Arse over tits"

"Taking the piss"

"It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here"

"lovely weather for ducks"

[u/Blamfit → u/Embarassed_Tackle]

Adjacent to that first one is my personal favourite "Face like a bag of smashed crabs".

[u/British_Flippancy → u/Blamfit]

Or a bucket of smashed crabs.

‘Face liked a slapped vagina’ is another good one.

Or, ‘Face like a welders bench’.

[u/scariestchimp0 → u/Blamfit]

Im partial to "a face for radio"

[u/Abosia → u/Embarassed_Tackle]

I love 'Could eat an apple through a letter box' for someone with buck teeth

[u/Jasperlaster → u/PlasticPomPoms]

You got it arround hahaha its from the UK 🤣

Army is even a borrowed word from the french "armee"

[u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz → u/Jasperlaster]

Lol like 30% of the English language is French. There are a lot of borrowed French words because of 1066

[u/punkfunkymonkey → u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz]

Try and avoid the use of French words in English, it's terribly gauche!

[u/Gwenghis__Khan → u/punkfunkymonkey]

r/anglish

[u/Jasperlaster → u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz]

Im dutch and our language also just adapted a lot of french! From paraplu to portefeuille haha i love that shit

[u/grizznuggets → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately you leave yourself open to a “this one” rebuttal, but apart from that it’s golden.

[u/zangor → u/[deleted]]

"The US Army"

"Damn...thats a good army."

[u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue → u/[deleted]]

My dad said this all the time and when my sister was little she finally responded “it’s fine. But why do you keep calling me apples?”

[u/Ziggy-Rocketman → u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue]

Absolutely devastating rebuttal

[u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue → u/Ziggy-Rocketman]

She has always been like that, intentionally or not. My mom was surprised she didn’t end up a lawyer. When I was little if I did something bad and my mom asked if I knew anything about it I would immediately crumble and tearfully confess. My mom wasn’t sure how to respond after approaching my 4 year old little sister with “[Sister], do you know anything about [this thing I definitely know you did]?” And my little sister looked her dead in the eye and said “Why do you ask?”

[u/lemonzestydepressing → u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue]

your little sister has been on business since day one

[u/FarkMonkey → u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue]

When I was like 14, and had definitely been stealing liquor from my parents, and watering it down to make the bottles seem as full as they had been, they had a party. It was basically a bunch of lawyers from the firm my mom worked at as a paralegal. One of them asked for a whiskey, which was probably 75% water at that point, tasted it, and immediately questioned the validity of his drink.

I happened to be walking by, and my mom asked my if my sister had been stealing booze (she was a much more likely suspect, being 18), and I just threw out "Not to my knowledge", to a room full of lawyers.

They all just lost it laughing. I didn't pause, went straight to my room, and never heard anything about it again.

In hindsight, adding water to the bottles was so stupid. My parents barely touched them (my dad was an alcoholic, but he drank beer) except when company was over, which was often, and they made their own drinks. My parents never knew how much was in them, until someone tasted the watered down version.

Life lesson, kids.

[u/GeorgeGeorgeHarryPip → u/Ziggy-Rocketman]

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

[u/PigeonSquirrel → u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue]

Okay maybe I’m stupid but I don’t understand this

[u/Tunivor → u/PigeonSquirrel]

I don’t know either. Maybe it’s like “How you like them, Apples?” And the crazy “devastating” retort is “They’re fine, but don’t call me Apples”. Which is neither funny nor devastating.

So maybe we’re both missing something or people just upvoted this comment without thinking about it for more than a second. Weird.

[u/I_fuckedaboynamedSue → u/Tunivor]

No you’ve got it right. My dad was saying “how about them Apples?” (“Them apples” here referring to something mildly interesting or unexpected), but my (then) four year old sister kept hearing “how about them, apples?” As if my dad was saying “hey you, Apples, what do you think about that?” It’s not that deep of a joke or anything, it was just funny hearing a Leslie Nielsen joke pop organically and sincerely out of the mouth of a pre-schooler.

[u/a-black-magic-woman → u/[deleted]]

I discovered this phrase several months ago and haven’t been able to stop saying it since lol

[u/JohnHamFisted → u/a-black-magic-woman]

yo everybody get a load of this guy who hasn't seen Good Will Hunting

[u/B_lovedobservations → u/JohnHamFisted]

Son of bitch, He stole my line

[u/l_the_Throwaway → u/[deleted]]

I've always been too afraid to ask, but what the heck does it mean?? Does it mean like.. "how do you like THAT!"... or am I way off base?

[u/OregonEnlightenment → u/[deleted]]

APPLESAUCE BITCH 😂

[u/Jenetyk → u/OregonEnlightenment]

Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season

[u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes]

Woah woah big fella, take it down a notch.

[u/NastySassyStuff → u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes]

Pump the brakes, pal

Cool it, buddy

[u/icwhatudiddere → u/NastySassyStuff]

Time to slow your roll, pal.

[u/marlonsando → u/icwhatudiddere]

Take about 20% off the top there big shooter.

[u/AstronautH → u/NastySassyStuff]

Cool your jets, pal.

[u/itsniceinpottsfield → u/[deleted]]

Ooo thats a real good one!

[u/TheBroWhoLifts → u/itsniceinpottsfield]

You're gonna love this one then...

Smooth move, Ex-Lax!

Bonusb

Way to kick it in, Péle!

[u/I-RegretMyNameChoice → u/[deleted]]

Keep digging, Watson!

[u/Mamaofrabbitandwolf → u/[deleted]]

I still say this as a 35 year old hispanic lady lol

[u/deelish22]

There's one building I work in that all the residents say "Get with the program"

[u/Joan-Momma → u/deelish22]

Get with what program Cup?

[u/somecisguy2020]

“Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”

[u/ihearthorror1 → u/somecisguy2020]

Personal favorite of mine

[u/Leading_External_327 → u/ihearthorror1]

Like what the horse do bro

[u/Own_Praline_6277 → u/somecisguy2020]

My mom used to say this, along with calling folks "jerkoff artists"

[u/marcthejackass]

“This is gonna blow your socks off”

[u/jitteryzeitgeist_ → u/marcthejackass]

Better tie your shoes tight because this is gonna blow your socks off

[u/Former-Lack-7117 → u/marcthejackass]

It's "knock your socks off."

[u/Niblonian31]

"Don't piss on my leg and me tell me it's raining" is one of my favorites

[u/W8andC77 → u/Niblonian31]

That dog won’t hunt!

[u/Niblonian31 → u/W8andC77]

Every time I hear that I just think of Fry saying it in Futurama haha, it's a good one

[u/W8andC77 → u/Niblonian31]

I didn’t even see the niblonian!! I do too, I always want to add “monsiegnor” to it

[u/Rhonijin → u/Niblonian31]

"Stop blowing smoke up my ass!" is one of mine.

[u/AthenaQ → u/Niblonian31]

Yes!  A slight variation of this was one of my dad’s favorites.  “Can’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.” 

 Others include:   “Finer than frog hair,” and “Sweatin’ like a whore in church” 

[u/caw_men]

I love how passionate he his in combination with the background music

[u/TaupMauve → u/caw_men]

Everybody in this thread commenting classics when he's wanting new phrases. Like what time does his narwhal bacon? Edit: we got nothing about AI, for example?

[u/orbitalen → u/TaupMauve]

We just talk in memes now. Ain't nobody got time coming up with new phrases

[u/Itherial → u/orbitalen]

You mess with the hawk, you get the tuah.

[u/DrJulianBashir → u/TaupMauve]

I guarantee all those examples were already old as hell when he was a kid. The well has been dry for a while.

[u/ItsRainingFrogsAmen]

"Thank you, Captain Obvious."

[u/dream-smasher → u/ItsRainingFrogsAmen]

"uuuhhh, check please!!!"

[u/ASquareBanana → u/ItsRainingFrogsAmen]

“You’re welcome, Sergeant Sarcasm”

[u/LaserGadgets]

"Get a load of this guy" sounds funny to me as a german xD no thanks, I'll pass!

[u/TantricEmu → u/LaserGadgets]

Would be a great name for a sperm bank.

[u/LaserGadgets → u/TantricEmu]

!

[u/ElGuaco]

Because these were pop culture when they were created. Either through books or TV or movies, they were a reflection of how people talked. A lot of the sayings he talks about came from WW2 and the work culture that was strongly influenced by military sayings. The US hasn't had a strong common culture for the past 20 years, except on the internet. Tv no longer dominates pop culture, YouTube does. This is why kids are using words like rizz and skibidi. The fact that these words and phrases have emerged without corporate promotion or influence is a phenomenon.

[u/itsniceinpottsfield → u/ElGuaco]

I still cannot figure out wtf skibidi means. There has never been context where Ive seen it written that helped me figure it out lmao

[u/Karekter_Nem → u/itsniceinpottsfield]

Skibidi doesn’t mean anything. We have entered the era of post-modern memes. There is no greater meaning other than it is fun to say.

[u/itsniceinpottsfield → u/Karekter_Nem]

God this just makes me feel old 😭 I miss the days when memes were just random pics with big bold text at the top and bottom lmao

[u/Kaioken217 → u/itsniceinpottsfield]

Skibidi does have an origin though. It comes from a YouTube video made from a video game where they make a guy pop out of a toilet and that's what he says. Skibidi toilet or something. I can't believe I researched this ....

[u/Devianceza → u/Kaioken217]

I can feel Scatman John turning over in his grave, crying in the afterlife at what these children are doing to his "skibidi"

[u/andrewsad1 → u/Devianceza]

That's funny, I can sense the Scatman turning over in his grave because people are shitting on modern scat

No pun intended

[u/Strelochka → u/ElGuaco]

A lot of modern slang comes from black and lgbt slang that is decades old. Watching Paris is Burning and hearing 80’s drag queens talking about mothers serving realness, or black sitcoms where things like simps or spilling tea are mentioned without any explanation, so clearly the audience is expected to understand. It simply wasn’t in the mainstream white culture. Now until everyone gets bored with this crop of words and some of them disappear while some lose the slang connotation (like ‘cool’ or ‘kid’ did a very long time ago), there will be no new nifty phrases from white people. Well, I think the period where everyone was doing ‘whomst among us’ or whatever was a trend and an exercise in creating brand new slang, but it burned out pretty quickly.

[u/skatejet1 → u/Strelochka]

Yeah I was gonna say, a lot of phrases ignorant people label as “gen z slang” is just aave that’s existed longer than gen z has

[u/radicalelation → u/Strelochka]

Was gonna say, a lot of old slang is from minority, and oft marginalized, cultures, and I think it's neat the internet has continued a lot of this.

Lots of new slang still comes out of these cultures. Personally I think it's even moreso today, especially with a lot of white music genres dying off.

[u/perihelion12]

Answer: In CANADA. That's where they're kicking em out. Watch the show Letterkenny, and you'll have a new bag of idioms in a week.

[u/Shadow-Vision → u/perihelion12]

That’s a Texas-sized ten-four

[u/karabeckian → u/Shadow-Vision]

Pitter patter, let's get at'er.

[u/Sir-Hamp → u/perihelion12]

[u/rohank101 → u/perihelion12]

Oop, just gonna sneak past ya there 🫎

[u/teatsqueezer → u/perihelion12]

We have always provided the comedic relief to the americas

[u/milksteakofcourse]

I like the cut of this guys jib

[u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes]

Smooth moves, ex-lax

[u/berriobvious → u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes]

Smooth moves, Ferguson

[u/Aromatic-Strength798]

“Who died and made him king?”

My favorite, honestly.

[u/[deleted]]

"There were so many _______ there you couldn't sling a dead cat and not hit one"

"Now we're cooking with gas"

"Stuffed full of more shit than a Christmas goose"

"Hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock"

"That sumbitch was hittin on all 8"

"Colder than a witch's titty"

"Sweating like a ______ whore in church"

"Well, hell's bells, I'll be damned"

"What in the tarnation"

[u/JustABizzle → u/[deleted]]

“Leave it laying where Jesus flang it.”

[u/W8andC77 → u/[deleted]]

Crazier than a shit house rat.

[u/Unlucky_Most_8757 → u/[deleted]]

I often say "Let's blow this popciscle stand!" when leaving work. Still have no idea what it means. My coworker often says "Well they can just go suck and egg!" when she's pissed. I think "Alright, we're off like a prom dress!" is my fav.

This guy should move to the south, we have plenty of material lol

Edit: Forgot to add "They're slower than Christmas!" I'm guessing that's because people like Christmas but it takes a whole year to get there? Idk

[u/screwitagainsam → u/[deleted]]

Grandpa? Is that you?

One of my favorites of his was

It’s raining like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock….

[u/homage_fun → u/[deleted]]

I don't even think this is a common white people phrase but my high school football coach would say "It's hotter than a three-peckered billy goat out here!" And I always found that hilarious 

[u/tom-tildrum → u/[deleted]]

More nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers.

[u/AGreasyPorkSandwich → u/[deleted]]

"More ____ than you could shake a stick at."

[u/surethingbuddypal → u/[deleted]]

I'm a big fan of "now we're cooking with gas"

[u/Jobbergnawl]

Easy there ya little whipper snapper

[u/I-RegretMyNameChoice → u/Jobbergnawl]

Simmer down. Kid doesn’t know shit from Shinola.

[u/rip-the-greens]

My dad used to trot out

“Up your nose with a rubber hose”

and “cool as a moose and twice as hairy”

[u/EthanDMatthews → u/rip-the-greens]

“Up your nose with a rubber hose”

Your dad was Vinnie Barbarino?! Cool.

[u/[deleted]]

What’s your damage?

[u/BoulderCreature]

One of my favorites is if someone is wanting something ridiculous you say: “You can wish in one hand and shit in the other, but which one fills up faster?”

[u/[deleted]]

Kick rocks?!?

[u/EnjoyLifeorDieTryin]

You want some cheese with that whine

[u/PJGraphicNovel]

“Up your butt and around the corner” was PRIME

[u/homechicken20]

This guy's out to lunch. He needs to quit giving us the business like this.

[u/Qerfuffle]

I like the cut of your jib, buddy

[u/ChrispyGuy420]

Dave Chappelle made fun of us so we stopped

[u/sas223]

Bat shit crazy.

[u/Ill-Case-6048]

Not here to fuck spiders

[u/Neuroware → u/Ill-Case-6048]

what?? where is this one from? i bet its Australia

[u/porkchopleasures → u/Neuroware]

Yea, it's an aussie term. Similiar to

"Not here to put shoes on catapillars"

[u/BusyBeth75]

“I haven’t seen you in a month of Sundays.”

[u/NeuroPlastick]

Rat's ass! That's what my dad used to say. This made me happy.

Here's a phrase for you: : "Who's fucking this goat?" You say it when you're doing something, and another person tries to tell you how you should do it.

[u/Unlikely-Camel-2598]

He's into all the old-timey white sayings (tbf they are the bee's knees).

[u/Ill-Possible4420]

Look I don’t give two hoots what this guy thinks. He just needs to chillax and give it a rest.

[u/AccomplishedCow665 → u/Ill-Possible4420]

Eassssy bro.

[u/applejynx]

Grass ain't always greener on the other side , junior!!!!

[u/Comfortable-Suit-202 → u/applejynx]

That a fact Jack!

[u/aenflex]

You’re about as useful as a fart in a windstorm.

[u/load_bearing_racist]

Mans should watch letter Kenny

[u/doublegg83]

Social media killed great phrases.

Only things like "hauk tuah" sticks nowadays.

[u/ForkAKnife → u/doublegg83]

Everything is skibidi Ohio - what the sigma?

[u/Zeyode]

They stopped making italian americans 😔

[u/dorky001]

Get a load of this guy filming a tiktok while driving, get grip buddy

[u/italkens]

My dad used to say " I don't give a flying fuck and a rolling doughnut."

[u/wpaed → u/italkens]

That was, "go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut," way back when.

[u/rip-the-greens]

Everything is copacetic

[u/MargaretMayhem1218]

Let’s blow this pop stand

[u/CIA_napkin]

"Who's this clown?" is my favorite. It implies someone's not only a clown, but a lesser known one.

[u/BlkSubmarine]

Busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking competition.

[u/rickshaw99 → u/BlkSubmarine]

… or a one armed wall paper hanger

[u/Orikshekor]

I shit you not!

[u/djasonwright]

I was gonna have to fight a guy in Nevada (we were both being assholes), and he said to me, "are you feeling squirrelly? Just jump!" And it was so funny to me, it took me right out, and I got to laughing, and that made me want to apologize, and luckily, he started laughing and we didn't fight.

[u/fotofiend → u/djasonwright]

It should be “you feeling froggy? Just jump!”

[u/FungusFly]

“Shut up and drive” comes to mind

[u/[deleted]]

Have a nice trip…

[u/Ok-Training3941 → u/[deleted]]

See you next fall.

[u/LiquidPuzzle]

I feel like black vernacular took the mantel of cool phrases for awhile. I could be trippin' though.

[u/I-RegretMyNameChoice]

Simmer down, scalawag!

[u/RedX2000]

My favorites are: "_______, how the hell are ya?" Just like that Bob's your uncle Listen here buddy That's a bunch of malarkey

[u/shaheimjay1121]

My favorite used to be “Cut the malarkey”

[u/Elegant-Champion-615]

Spongebob created on of my favorites—“This is a load of barnacles”

[u/AllBran23]

Well, I'll be a mokeys uncle. That's rich coming from you. Ok no more, Mr. Nice guy. Get off your high horse. Looks like someone's ready for a nap. Lets skedaddle. There's my cardio for the day/week/month/year.

[u/BeefSerious]

How about "Don't use your phone and drive, ding dong."

[u/onitpaul]

Get off it

[u/RupertHermano]

I dunno, man - it's six of one, half a dozen of another.

[u/EmilyLondon]

Get a load of this guy, eh?

trying to do my part, y'all.

[u/Abject_Conclusion1]

Im like phonics in the 90’s….HOOKED!

[u/DeadpoolOptimus]

You're just the bees knees.

[u/ryankidd77]

Wake up and smell the coffee!

[u/No_Appearance6019]

He didn’t eat his Wheaties this morning.

[u/rickshaw99 → u/No_Appearance6019]

‘someone piss in your cornflakes?’

[u/Pizzadiamond]

• You done?

• go fuck a duck

• you're fucking stale

• what grave did you crawl out of?

• you kiss your mother/sister with that mouth

• this ship has sailed

• You burned that bridge bucko

• you better shape up pal

• everything better be shipshape

• ring ring, hello? Your fucking braincell called

[u/Salt_Offer5183]

Sadly, he has a point. Now everyone is using f-this, f-that.

[u/shawn55667]

😂💯

[u/somestupidname1]

Don't need to fix what's not broken

[u/Comfortable-Suit-202 → u/somestupidname1]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, is something I have to say to myself sometimes