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What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?
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"Bread and butter", said to your partner when they're about to split a pole while you're walking.
"The buffalo is off the nickel", similar to "the cheese has slid off his cracker", or, alternatively, depending on usage, a way of saying bullshit.
Both of these phrases were said by William Shatner in a Twilight Zone episode, and I've never, ever heard any of anyone using them.
What? I understood close to zero of the meaning of anything in this sentence.
Say you and your significant other are out walking, and your significant other is about to walk around a pole, allowing the pole to come between you.
That's called splitting a pole and it is considered bad luck as a portent of something coming between you in your relationship.
Bread and butter is just the older way of saying don't split the pole.