re: Phrases we still use that don’t make sense anymore

Not really. They terminate calls by pressing a button. The hanging up phrase comes from when the handheld receiver would actually physically hang on a hook that terminated the call. That doesn't really exist in wide usage anymore.

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Not really. They terminate calls by pressing a button. The hanging up phrase comes from when the handheld receiver would actually physically hang on a hook that terminated the call. That doesn't really exist in wide usage anymore.

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Exactly.

The Cats out of the bag.

Toe the Line

Could care less

Joe Burrow is a good quarterback

And people still use the shite out of it.

did you miss this

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that don’t make sense anymore

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of the thread ?

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Nobody every rode a fricking goat.

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