28 Slang Words Boomers Used to Say That Millennials Have Never Heard Of

There are so many sayings that, although they might not make any grammatical sense, they come from somewhere. So, just because you might not understand an old saying 100% doesn’t mean you should knock it.

To “Have a cow” means quite literally to have a freak-out… For a cow to birth another cow, she must go into labor and, therefore, go through a pretty painful and challenging experience, which might cause her to “overreact.” Consequently, she would have a cow… That’s how we ended up with this slang.