SAY IT IN SLANG

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6545, 18 November 1924, Page 6

SAY IT IN SLANG

, \ THE NEWEST FROM CHICAGO -F-xF-Ft/-: * - ;Vv r ■■ ' The Chicago Sunday has ibeeh offering one dollar each for original slang expressions to take the place of the sfqndj-bys:— It’s the cat’s .whiskerarl • J ; What do you that! Put it in your pipe and l smoke it! Heaven what a pity! ' I’ll tell the world!, ‘'There are dozens of other slang expressions so old that they have whiskers on them,” the paper says. “Let’s replace them with some shiny new ones.”, s . Here are some expressions, which won prizes for their inventors: — “You talk like a moovie.” iF ~You tell Fem knocker, you’ve got the brass.” “Go dive in a green river.” “That takes the bakery.” “Listen to the Want Ad.” “0 scissors, let’s cut up.” “You know your oil, but it’s crude.” “You’re still in the half-fare class.” i “Call me when you’re twelve.” “Let’s go to Herrin and rest up.” “Wouldn’t that jar your mother’s preserves?” t “Re a rubber band —snap into it.” “And they sent to Africa for ivory,” •;.£.? j “Hurry up, trailer/ you’re always behind.” ’ ■ . , \ - .rlf.' “He thinks cut V glass comes in pieces.” F , i *, “You tell v ’em cotton—l’m out on bale.” \v ■ Iti , • “He thinks Mae Marsh is a ssajsjpvs “You tell ’em scissors—you’re keen.” “As rich as an Australian uncle.” “Go, kiss the third rail.” “He loved his radio —so she gave him air.” , ; 1 “He thinks Babe Ruth wrote,‘The Bat’.” V v ■ “Climb up a tree and branch out.” “Who’s tongue-twister, are you?” “You look like three years ago.” “You tell ’em Bob—l’m shingled.” “Sell out.”