Weekly English Words with Alisha Phrases that arent cool anymore
Rollin, rollin, rollin. Okay, hi, welcome
back to Weekly Words, I’m Alisha, and today
we’re going to talk about phrases that aren’t cool anymore. Woo-hoo!
I probably say a whole lot of these phrases, so I’m about to embarrass myself.
The first phrase is “Sweet!” Oh, “sweet’s”
not cool anymore? “Sweet” means “cool.” “Sweet”
means something that’s good. You might say, “Ah, man, that skateboard trick you just did
was sweet!”
“Groovy!” I still say “groovy. “Groovy” means “cool.” “Groovy means “good.” It was used
in the 70s when funky, groovy music was popular. In a sentence like. “Oh, hey, those are some
groovy moves on the dance floor.” I don’t
know if we’d use that.
“Going steady.” “Going steady” is kind of
an old-fashioned phrase as well. “Going steady”
just means you’re dating. Someone who is dating someone else like, “Me and Trisha are going
steady.” It just means you’re dating. You’re a couple.
“Not!” Aw, this word is actually what the
entire holiday of April Fools' Day is based
around. That’s a lie. Particularly, I would
say for junior high school students this phrase
is, um, very popular. They might say something like, “Hey, Steve thinks you’re cute! Not!”
So in other words, it’s often used as an insult.
“Duh!” “Duh” is used when someone says something really stupid or something really obvious.
So if you say something like, “Oh, hey, it’s
raining.” The other person who can also maybe
look out the window you’re both sitting in
front of might say, “Duh,” because you’ve
just indicated something very, very obvious. You can also use “duh” to make fun of yourself
when you do or say something really stupid. As soon as you realize this, you can go, “Ah,
duh!”
I’m learning today that I’m not cool. That’s
the end! Oh, okay, well though there’s some
phrases that are no longer cool. Hope you
learned something about things that are no
longer cool but you can still use these words just, you know, don’t expect to sound really
interesting or hip to the lingo if you use
these words. Okay, thanks for joining us,
and I will see you again next time. Bye-bye!