Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases

[Outlaw]

Barf - as in vomit

Dis - as in reject

Federal Case - as in big deal

and one of my mother's favorite expressions was..."somewhere between there and here, you must have lost your ever-lovin mind, I suggest you go back the same way you came and see if you can find it"

What time is it? - Quarter After, Twenty After, Half Past, Twenty of, Quarter of, Noon and Midnight are terms that seem lost on a generation that finds telling time on analog clocks antiquated.