What are some funny archaic expressions that you use?

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For example, I like to say 'many moons ago' to mean 'a long time ago' and I enjoy using this kind of language for fun. What are some other examples that you use sometimes?

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tobotic@reddit

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow. Myriad = technically means 10,000, but generally just used to mean any very large number of things.

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Fit_Emu_5915@reddit

There's not a modern word for the day after tomorrow? In Spanish we say "pasado mañana"

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tobotic@reddit

>There's not a modern word for the day after tomorrow? Overmorrow is rare, but it exists. >In Spanish we say "pasado mañana" So Spanish doesn't have a word for the day after tomorrow?

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It varies but currently I’m using situated instead of located. Until quite recently located was American English, they coined the term to describe new settlements. In British English a house, town etc would always be e.g. “conveniently situated by the river” or “situated north of the hills”.

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ViridianKumquat@reddit

"Widdershins" for anticlockwise.

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7ootles@reddit

If something doesn't matter so much, it is "of no force". Something I got from reading Chaucer. Also, as a northerner, if something had been going on for a very long time, it's been happening "since Adam were a lad".

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redrighthand_@reddit

Doubting Thomas

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HowCanYouBanAJoke@reddit

I got called an old man for using "Straight from the horse's mouth" the other day while playing Apex....

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SilyLavage@reddit

It’s not *especially* archaic, but I much prefer going to the pictures to see a film over going to the cinema to watch a movie.

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intangible-tangerine@reddit

Eftsoons Medieval and Early Modern English equivalent of the Welsh 'now in a minute' In the sense of 'I'm going to do the thing immediately, right after I've had this cup of tea, checked my emails, text this person back...'

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GrimQuim@reddit

Not many but that's just my two-penny's worth.

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What are some funny archaic expressions that you use?

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