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11 Saying Kids Today Just Don't Understand

By Zachary |

<div><p>One of the easiest ways to make yourself feel old is to use an expression from your childhood and watch your children's faces turn blank. </p><p>If you joke that someone chatty was "vaccinated with a phonograph needle" odds are nobody will laugh, and if you say "let's get down to brass tacks" they'll have no idea what you mean.</p><p>But not all phrases go out of style just because they're uncool. Some are related to technology that nobody uses anymore, while others have really obscure meanings. See if you recognize the meanings of every expression on this list!</p><p></p><p><strong>1. Rewind that!</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/bekindrewind-2B01.png" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Mike Lynch Cartoons</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>The age of VCRs and VHS tapes is officially over now that <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/last-video-cassette-recorder-maker/">they're not making them any more</a>. But we still "rewind" DVDs and even live TV when we need to replay something.</p><p></p><div align="center" data-freestar-ad="__336x280 __789x280" id="throwbacks_articles_incontent _1"> </div><p></p><p><strong>2. When an alarm "rings"</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/NP3.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Shutterstock</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Odds are unless you have an old fashioned alarm clock, it doesn't ring to wake you up in the morning, it beeps. Still, in a world of digital noises we keep saying everything's "ringing."</p><p></p><p><strong>3. Roll the window down</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/HHH.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Matthew Dicks</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Kids these days are so spoiled! Making the car window go up or down used to be a real arm workout, now we can do it with the touch of a button. </p><p></p><div align="center" data-freestar-ad="__336x280 __789x280" id="throwbacks_articles_video"> </div><p></p><p><strong>4. Using the CC feature when you send an email</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/A4-Triplicate-font-b-Invoice-b-font-font-b-books-b-font-print-custom-carbonless-font.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>aliexpress</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Good luck explaining this one to your kids: it's hard enough for them to imagine a world before e-mail, but the idea of making copies manually with carbon paper must seem like ancient history.</p><p></p><p><strong>5. Turn that off</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/eer0275-1.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>Do you still own a TV with knobs? Probably not, but pretty much everyone still turns their electronics on and off, without ever thinking of what they're "turning." Now that we use buttons, we should start saying "push the TV on!"</p><p></p><p></p><div align="center" data-freestar-ad="__336x280 __789x280" id="throwbacks_articles_incontent_2"> </div><p></p><p></p><p><strong>6. Close but no cigar</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/HMHM.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Hawaii Magazine</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>You may not know this one either. Everyone learns growing up that this phrase means "almost but not quite," but not that people used to &nbsp;win cigars by playing carnival games. <em>Now </em>that makes sense!</p><p></p><p><strong>7. Ring up my purchase</strong></p><div><div><div><amp-youtube height="9" width="16" layout="responsive" data-videoid="HBBL_0M_tjM"></amp-youtube></div></div></div><p>If you listen closely to this antique cash register you can hear the bell inside ring when the total comes up. We still say that cashiers "ring up" a purchase, even though most machines don't make this classic sound anymore.</p><p></p><p><strong>8. Dialing a number and hanging up a phone</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/GPO_700.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Gizmodo</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Here's a fun game: ask your kids to point out where the "dial" is on their cellphone and see how they react. We still use this old term to make calls, and when we finish we hang up the phone. Well, not really, but we still say we're "hanging up" when we end a call.</p><p></p><div align="center" data-freestar-ad="__336x280 __789x280" id="throwbacks_articles_incontent_3"> </div><p></p><p><strong>9. You sound like a broken record</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/fe5152b5365191e392c2476e267fe671.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>Vinyl has become a <a href="http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/vinyl-records-back-at-no-1-on-music-fans-playlists-1.11924800">very popular</a> way to listen to music again, but if you tell your kids they sound like a broken record, they won't know you mean they keep repeating themselves.</p><p></p><p><strong>10. Catch you on the flip side</strong></p><div><div><div><amp-youtube height="9" width="16" layout="responsive" data-videoid="lf4eR3ZkvoY"></amp-youtube></div></div></div><p>Another musical term that lives on in modern times - even if the younger generation doesn't know what it means - is the "flip side." Cassette tapes were the last thing anyone had to flip and they're practically forgotten today, so if you grew up with CDs instead of records or tapes, there's no way to know where exactly the flip side is!</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p><strong>11. Put through a wringer</strong></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://legacy.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/03/HH.JPG" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>eBay</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Very few young people could recognize a laundry wringer, even if you gave them a hint what it was for. Oddly, this phrase meaning "to go through a tough experience," is still used all the time.</p><p></p><p><strong>Share this list if you knew all of these!</strong></p></div>

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