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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[hachiemachie.livejournal.com]

Oh man, my family has a whole bunch of words and phrases like that. The least embarrassing being "cookies" which is the code word for any feminine hygiene product. That usage has been confusing young boys in the family for years now. We also have as plethora of intentionally mispronounced words like "skissors" and "ka-nife" and that's all I'm going to say about that lest the maternal half of my family comes off as completely nuts. Oddly enough, my dad's side of the family isn't really into the wordplay at all which might explain why, even though they're all very nice people, they're not as fun. Hmmm...