They said what?

they also never will know what it was like to have to walk everywhere you went..and it was all uphill.....lol
Uphill, both ways was the expression I heard.

My Mom used the expression " I have a crow to pick with you" which meant she saw or heard about something that was done and I was in a heap of trouble.
 
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"Can I borrow a cup of sugar?" I remember neighbors doing this all the time as a kid, but not since the 70's. Did people stop baking?
I had it this century. Depends how hard up your neighbours are. Not common though, perhaps because you have to actually know your neighbours?
Another one, by an older person to a younger person hurrying, 'You won't get there any faster.'
This one always baffled me. Of course I will! I'm going faster! Why would you say that? In any case, nobody does say it anymore as no other generation picked up on it, due it being obviously stupid.