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I'd been trying to dredge together outmoded expressions to awkwardly slip into discussions for a while & never could work out a good way to come up with them. How do you generate those?
I just googled 50s slang.
I've always used "heavens to murgitroid" which I think is something the old granny in Tom and Jerry cartoons used to say.