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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Phrases That Need Preserving

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

After Patsy dropped the line "it's playing silly buggers", we want to hear more of your old phrases and sayings that you just don't hear any more.

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0:00.0

Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. I was just kind of patsy just now. A dishwasher is broken. I've been talking about my broken wash machine. And she referred to her this playing sillybuggers. And I thought that phrase playing sillybuggers is one of those old-timey phrases that are amazing. But they're going to die out, aren't they? The younger generation, the TikTokck generation are not running with and still integrating silly buggers would you put fuddy

0:25.0

daddy in there alongside silly bugger it's a bit fuddy duddy yeah my wife and I say that a lot you can

0:30.3

use it for anything can you even I remember we were couch shopping a while ago and I saw one

0:35.8

and it was like one of these ones where different people

0:38.6

can be on different reclines. Oh yeah. Yeah. But it was like a, it wasn't leather. It was,

0:43.4

it was a leather replica. My wife said we can't have that. They just look a bit fuddy-duddy.

0:49.7

And I was like dead right, fuddy-duddy. It's probably in a section all the fuddy dutty stuff is over there

0:54.3

and as soon as it's got that label now

0:55.9

I can't get away from it now

0:57.1

the other thing as well is beggars can't be choosers

1:00.0

I said this the other month right

1:02.4

and my kids were like wait what does that

1:04.2

what is that they didn't know what I was talking about

1:06.4

beggars can't be chooses I had to explain it to them. Even then I was trying to go, it means, because you know you never had to explain it to somebody. I went, if you haven't got a lot of money,

1:14.4

you don't have a lot of options. I went, yeah, okay, I understand. What does that mean to what

1:18.3

we're talking about? Does it matter? Don't, I took it before, because I'm an adult.

1:24.1

The other one is, I love the phrase gathering dust and also pottering around.

1:31.7

Oh, pottering around.

1:33.1

It's a nice word to say.

1:34.7

It's a flipping great thing to do.

1:36.6

You know, you wander around, not really doing anything, but you just wander, you sit for a bit,

1:41.4

won't you?

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