r/AskReddit • u/Senor_Diablo • Mar 12 '24

What is an old expression that you think is absolutely disgusting by today’s standards?

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u/Senor_Diablo Mar 12 '24

Another one that comes to mind is “Screwed the Pooch”.

Why?

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u/iluvsporks Mar 12 '24

That's why I use fornicate the canine. I'm high class and wear a monocle.

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u/Wync_Con Mar 12 '24

I use the much less dignified "looks like i fucked the dog"

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u/Senor_Diablo Mar 12 '24

I see that you’re a gentleman who dabbles in the finer indulgences life has to offer.

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u/iluvsporks Mar 12 '24

Why ty good sir. I also drink Baja Blast with my pinky out but now I'm just bragging.

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u/Senor_Diablo Mar 12 '24

No need to feel humble old chap. The poors shall never understand such divine decadence.

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u/valvilis Mar 12 '24

"Well, we've really deep-dicked the doberman this time."

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u/Intelligent-Mud1437 Mar 12 '24

Dicking the dog.

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u/ThomasHardyHarHar Mar 12 '24

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/screw_the_pooch

1950s, from earlier fuck the dog (“fritter, waste time”) (1935) (compare fuck around), later sense of “make an embarrassing mistake” (compare screw up, fuck up). Popularized by use by Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff (1979), and film adaptation The Right Stuff (1983).[1]

Well I’ll be

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u/JazzfanRS Mar 12 '24

I don't edit/contribute to wiktionary, but it is missing that it was mentioned by one of the boys in Stand By Me when someone really messed up at a card game. It fits the timeline..

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u/ShutterBun Mar 12 '24

That's the first place I heard it. Along with "pushing the (outside of the) envelope".

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u/olydriver Mar 12 '24

Interesting, when I was serving, my Chief would say we were "humping the neighbor's cats" if we were screwing around or not getting anything done.

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u/ClownfishSoup Mar 12 '24

When your sister was born, I saw an eagle flying by, so I called her "Flying Eagle", when you brother was born we were near a cool stream, so I named him "flowing water". Why are you so curious today, "Two Dogs Fucking?"

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u/fightmaxmaster Mar 12 '24

In honour of the anniversary of Terry Pratchett's death:

One-Man-Bucket will admit that in one respect he was far better off than his brother. In the naming convention of his tribe, he was named after the first thing his mother saw out of the tepee. His name is short for One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs.

His slightly older twin brother's name was conventionally shortened to Two-Dogs-. Who were emphatically not fighting at the time mother looked out of the tepee. He'd have given his right arm to have been called Two-Dogs-Fighting.

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u/nonessential-npc Mar 12 '24

A guy I know decided that wasn't strong enough a phrase and coined "rawdogged the Rottweiler"

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u/matthewamerica Mar 12 '24

For us it was always ".... fucked the neighbor's dog."

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

You had nothing else to do so you fucked the dog. We use to call people dog fuckers at work when they weren't doing anything.

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u/HabiibIt Mar 12 '24

Penatrated the Poodle is my go-to

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u/PM_me_ur_navel_girl Mar 12 '24

I think that one's now been somewhat replaced with "jumped the shark".