90's Sayings
Giving this percentage means doing your very best.
What is 110?
Lake Superior State University added the saying giving 110 percent to its list of banished terms in 1998 due to its illogical nature.
Space is considered this frontier.
What is final?
Unofficially, there are three “spaces”: space, outer space, and deep space. Space is generic and covers outer space and deep space. Outer space is considered anything beyond Earth, and deep space is considered far beyond Earth’s moon.
This funnel-shaped phenomenon blows through its path with fury.
What is a tornado?
Tornadic winds can howl and blow at up to 300 miles per hour. While they are usually short-lived, sometimes they last for hours. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds for a tornado to leave a path of utter destruction.
March leaves like a lamb, but it comes in like this animal.
What is a lion?
Fall and spring are transitional months with huge swings in temperatures. March comes in as winter (lion) and leaves as spring (lamb), but the proverb originally referred to the constellations and astrology—Leo the lion and Aries the lamb.
This is a term for a young person in poultry lingo.
What is spring chicken?
When you’re healthy and fit, you feel like a spring chicken regardless of your age.
This alliterative saying, meaning “ta-da” or “voilà,” was the name of a club on the TV show The Sopranos.
What is “Bada Bing”?
The phrase dates to around 1965 but was popularized in ’90s slang.
Debris floating around in space is called this.
What is space junk?
It includes debris from decommissioned satellites, rockets, and missiles.
This is the meteorological term for precipitation in the form of solid balls of ice.
What is hail?
When an upward draft carries raindrops into the cold part of the atmosphere, they freeze into spheres the size of golf balls. Sometimes they grow to the size of a baseball.
We sometimes describe heavy rains by saying that it’s raining these two animals.
What are cats and dogs?
The expression’s origin is unknown, but some suspect it is a reference to Jonathan Swift’s satirical poem “A Description of a City Shower,” published in 1710.
We switch to this time in meteorological spring.
What is daylight saving time (DST)?
Daylight saving time begins each year on the second Sunday in March.
In the ’90s, something great was “all that and a bag of” these.
What are chips?
The funny phrase was popularized as a pick-up line in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Of the moon and Pluto, it’s the larger of the two.
What is the moon?
The moon’s radius is 1,110 miles (1737.5 kilometers), while Pluto’s is 1,079 miles (1,185 kilometers).
This specific kind of landslide is defined as “a mass of material, such as snow, rock, or other debris, moving rapidly down a slope.”
What is avalanche?
It’s caused by a part of the slope, hill, or mountain becoming unstable, often after a heavy rain or snowfall.
This meteorological term applies to rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation? The most common form of precipitation is rain.
Vernal means of this season.
What is spring?
The first day of spring is the vernal equinox.
Among the acronyms used in the ’90s, FYI became popular shorthand for this phrase.
What is “for your information”?
Though in use since the 1940s, its popular everyday use has been on the rise since the ’90s, and it is used in texting lingo to this day.
The discovery of this liquid on Mars gives hope for future colonization.
What is water?
It exists on Mars in both liquid and frozen form.
Rainbows require this in addition to rain to exist.
What is light?
The water acts as a prism to refract (or bend) light and produce a rainbow.
When lightning strikes, it allows this gas to combine with oxygen to help plants grow.
What is nitrogen?
When oxygen and nitrogen combine, it helps plants absorb nitrogen better. Nitrogen is a component of fertilizer; it’s the N in NPK, along with phosphorus (P) and potassium (K).
The sun is directly above this on the first day of spring.
What is the equator?
On the first day of spring, we get approximately 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness.
If you wanted someone to quiet down in the ’90s, you might encourage them to talk to this body part.
What is the hand?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the saying originated as campus slang at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
This planet in our solar system has the deepest canyons and the highest mountains.
What is Mars?
Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain on Mars, is three times taller than Mount Everest and is also a volcano.
This collapse of land can occur following a downpour of biblical proportions or for no apparent reason.
What is a sinkhole?
If there is no apparent reason for the land to collapse, you can assume that water collected beneath the ground has made the surface unstable and led to the sinkhole.
Of lightning and thunder, it’s the one that causes the other.
What is lightning (causes thunder)?
Lightning heats the air and causes it to expand and contract, creating a sound wave. You see lightning a few seconds before you hear thunder because sound moves slower than light.
Spring was originally called this.
What is Lent?
By the 15th century, it was called springtime; in the 16th century, it was shortened to spring.