household phrases

[42itous]

Do you have a word or phrase that your family or friends understand but a stranger wouldn't?

I came across this quotation: "I had a friend who used to say 'I’m on the rollerskates' to mean her period, as a reference to those daft Tampax ads where the actress skated around in white jeans."

In my family, we refer to the "as-you," which is the place you put things when they're on their way somewhere but you're not going to bother bringing them there now. I.e. Dad puts newspaper clippings at the bottom of the stairs, and the next time someone goes up, they bring the newspaper clippings up to his desk. Or we put mail in the as-you by the front door.

majordomo and I were given a Santoku knife for our wedding. We got married at the height of the Sudoku puzzle craze. We call it the Sudoku knife.

I use "triffid" in place of "trivet." I actually have trouble saying the proper word. Luckily, it's easy for people not of my immediate family to tell what I mean from context.

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[nosrednayduj]

Small things that are in some kind of food, e.g. a salad or pizza, which you don't care for, are "oh-nos". This comes from the kids, when finding something they didn't want in their food, picking it out and saying "oh no". So, green peppers are "oh-nos" for me, and tomatoes are "oh-nos" for Ken, and almost anything good for you is an "oh-no" for the kids. A friend doesn't like raisins in cookies, so when I make oatmeal cookies I sometimes make "oh-no free" cookies for her. It can be amusing. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize those were oh-nos."