Post Quiz: 1920s Slang - Answers

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Post Quiz: 1920s Slang - Answers

These are great expressions. Help bring them back by using them in casual conversation. See how your circle of friends widens. They will widen as far as possible.

  1. Applesauce
  2. Bee's knees
  3. Cheaters
  4. Clam
  5. Fire extinguisher
  6. Gams
  7. Jake
  8. Ossified
  9. Petting Pantry
  10. Tomato
  1. Malarkey, nonsense
  2. Cat's meow
  3. Specs, eyeglasses
  4. Buck
  5. Chaperone
  6. Stilts, pins, legs
  7. Okay, fine
  8. Pie-eyed, drunk
  9. Cinema
  10. Person of the female persuasion
Two flappers with long cigarette holders, looking very arch
That dress is the bee's knees.
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