What phrases are not used anymore?

Don't wear white after Labour Day - mom was a stickler for this.

Blue and green should never be seen, except together in a washing machine.

"It's just as easy to love a rich man as it is to love a poor one" - I used to hear this from the older ladies at work when I was much younger. It always made me throw up in my mouth a little.

When I was a child, "cowboys and Indians" as Native Americans were then called, was the theme of the times. Pretty much all TV shows were Westerns, and that's what the kids wanted to emulate.

So there was this phrase going around that "Indians don't cry." Any time a kid fell and scraped a knee or something, that's what he/she would be told. The idea that Native Americans were all just naturally stoic and brave was so widespread, that's why the "crying Indian" anti-pollution PSA made such a big impact. It was a shock. It seemed out of place. Gosh, if it's serious enough to make an Indian cry....

I wonder where anybody ever came up with such a crock.

That song was the cat's pajamas!

When assuring somebody that they aren't the only one in that situation, or not the only one who feels that way, "You're not the Lone Ranger." Do young people nowadays even know who the Lone Ranger is?

Gosh!.......

I’m in my 20’s and I know who the Lone Ranger is. My parents had me when they were much older then other parents with kids my age, So they watched it as kids.

The phrase “gun shy”.

There was a southern saying about intense arguing involving cursing and swearing like "She was giving him down in the country!"

I've heard it, "She was calling him everything but a white boy," and "She was calling him everything but a child of God." I can understand why neither of those is used much anymore. "Giving him down in the country" is a new one on me. Never heard it before.

...and then the s**t hit the fan.

I used to live in the South, and often heard "God bless you." Here in the Midwest, I have never heard it.

Pitch In (seen on garbage cans)

This is so funny to read! Some of these I've never heard, and some I still hear! My boss says "groovy" often, but usually ironically with a funny voice .

My grandmother used to call our jeans, "dungarees". I've never heard another person refer to them that way in my life, including my mom (i.e. my grandmother's daughter).

I never hear this anymore:

Har de har har

I thought of another one.

It’s a Kodak moment.

I have heard the term, but only out of people who live in the Upper Atlantic states. Connecticut, New Jersey, and thereabouts.

People I've known from Iowa call a couch (sofa?) a "divan" or a "davenport." I've never heard either of those words anywhere else, and the "davenport" lady was already a senior citizen in the 1970's.

"A silk purse out of a sow's ear"

Does anybody else say "ornery"? My mother and her mother did but I haven't heard of anyone else.

I've heard "ornery" out of people my generation and up (mid 50's) but not younger.

mutton dressed as lamb..I don't hear anyone say that anymore.

'Milquetoast'

Pardon Me.

My uncle said this to me when I was 4 and I had no idea what he meant. I still find it weird.

I use it all the time

Me too. Or sometimes I'll say "I'm sorry..?" short for, I'm sorry, could you please repeat that.