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Old Time Sayings

    As I continue this little series on old sayings for this week there are some old sayings and then some from the 70s when I was in my early twenties, man that makes me feel old! Here we go.  “Too big for his britches” really means someone who is acting conceited or arrogant. You see a lot of this from some professional athletes.  “Not the sharpest tool in the shed”, refers to lacking common sense. The world is full of these types of people; in fact you are not even allowed to say this anymore.   Well, I will say it again, there is much LACK of common sense!  “Knee high to a grasshopper”, refers to someone who is short and young.

  “Barking up the wrong tree”, simply means someone pursuing the wrong course of action.  Now from the seventies some things you do not hear of a lot anymore. “Can you dig it?” Do you understand something or are you cool about it?   “Far out”, means something that is awesome and incredible.   “Catch you on the flip side”. Burt Reynolds used this line in Smokey and the Bandit, really just means see you later.    “Out of sight”, means amazing or unbelievable. “A pad” is where someone lives.

   “Groovy” means being cool in a hip sort of way. The last one for this week is Shaggin’ Wagon. This is a 70s van with a bed in the back, I see one of those on the highway every now and then, yep that's a Shaggin’ Wagon!