3. What’s your bag?
As you would expect, this is one of the baby boomer phrases that you can’t take literally. It has nothing to do with any bag. When someone asked somebody else, “What’s your bag?” what they really meant was, “What is your problem?”
More than that, it is all about the context. “What’s your bag?” can also mean “Where are you coming from?” or “What do you do for a living?”
“Bag” used in a simple way like this can refer to what someone is interested in. For example, “Playing video games isn’t really my bag.”
4. Dropped a dime
Of all the baby boomer phrases, this is one that we are sure many of you can relate to. Those born after 2000 know about this from the movies, and early millennials maybe got to see this for real in their childhood.
Before we got mobile phones and all of that, people used to make phone calls by using payphones. These were usually public phones you could easily find on the street, and to use them you needed to have a telephone card or some coins.
This is why “dropping a dime” can mean making a phone call. Also, if we were to get deeper into the slang term “dropping a dime,” it can mean to betray. It comes from the way people who were snitching called the authorities and informed them about someone who did something illegal.
