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[Guest]

I haven't read thru all of these but ones that my mother used ALL the time when we were little...

 

'gone ashore for a loaf' (if we asked mum where dad was, this is what she'd say)

'cry and you'll pee less' (usually after we got a smack!)

 

I have never heard anyone use these apart from my mum!

 

oh and another popular one was....

 

"you know what thought did, followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding" (if you'd got something wrong and said "but i thought...")

[The Dogmother]

We'd say 'it's snowing down south' for a petticoat showing. Do people still wear petticoats?

 

I still have two somewhere that get dug out for use under a couple of smart frocks which are transparent-ish.. you know me and underpinnings though

[Sam Palmer]

My Grancha had been brought up with a strong chapel background and didn't swear, so was always 'flipping 'and 'flopping' when he a was cross. Another one was 'blinking, blonking dragonfies' - which I still use.

[The Dogmother]

Egluntyne makes me laugh with her 'neither use nor ornament'

[Lavenders_Blue]

I've thought of another couple used in our family:

 

We have a tradition of saying 'Not today, thankyou' when opening the door to other family members (as if they were double glazing salesmen or similar).

 

Also, after a dinner of which the cook is particularly proud but where there is nothing special for pudding, we always say 'After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dustcart'

[Chucky Mama]

saying 'Not today, thankyou' when opening the door to other family members (as if they were double glazing salesmen or similar).

oh yes, we do that one too (well actually, it's only me )

[Cinnamon]

My Grandmum used to say that us children looked like 'The wreck of the Hesperus' when we had been scruffing about in the garden.

 

Its a poem I have now found out,about a very messy shipwreck.

[Egluntyne]

That is one of my sayings, inherited from my Dad, and usually used in reference to the children's bedrooms.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

saying 'Not today, thankyou' when opening the door to other family members (as if they were double glazing salesmen or similar).

oh yes, we do that one too (well actually, it's only me )

 

Same here . (And, yes, it's only me too .)

[meezers]

We have a tradition of saying 'Not today, thankyou' when opening the door to other family members (as if they were double glazing salesmen or similar).

 

 

I do the same, maybe it's because I don't have many door to door salesmen to practise on

Thought of a couple more . I don't use any of the 'strong' swear words, but on some occasions a 'heck' just will not do, so since the boys were babies I censor myself with a 'beep' as they do on tv. It's actually quite satisfying to 'BEEP!, BEEP!, BEEP!' as I know exactly what I'm really saying

And another that OH has introduced and is now in regular use by him and the boys is the expression 'like mum's pavlova ' for any minor disaster. I can't remember producing any disastrous pavlovas, but the family say otherwise.

[WitchHazel]

When I was very small, I was very good at picking up and repeating things my parents said. Unfortunately, I often misheard what they actually said, and my brain used to fill in the missing bits.

 

One of our favourites, still in use 40+ years later, is "Toasted Elephants" (for "totally irrelevant")

[Tutti Frutti]

If anyone accidentally (ahem) "blows bubbles" in the bath, we say, "Did you ask for a waterbottle?"

 

(after the punchline of a joke, where someone said "Whatabout-a-waterbottle" - you need to say it really fast though!)

 

Perhaps I shouldn't be confessing these out loud

[HennyPenny]

Wow - I'm feeling much less of an oddity now I know I'm not the only person in the world who thinks some people are 'as mad as a box of frogs'! However, should I confess to these.......?

 

When I've been rushing around I might have been 'in and out like a fiddler's elbow'

'put the wood in the hole' = shut the door

'I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking' = not as stupid as I look

'I won't boil my cabbages twice' = I'm not telling you again

 

and one from a colleague at work when faced with something a bit muddled....'that's a real mix-up in a dixie'

[Tutti Frutti]

"You sunk my battleship" - random expression of surprise (from The Simpsons )

[The Dogmother]

Does anyone else have 'pillar to post days'?

[chickencam]

Yes

 

We do the answering the door with no thankyou thing too, obviously more common than we thought

 

My mother used 'and you know what thought did' a lot when I was a child

 

We use 'you're flying low' for men who haven't correctly adjusted their trousers after a call of nature.

 

We don't say 'put the wood in the hole' for close the door we just say 'wood.. hole' very loudly.

 

A family favourite is 'as useless as a chocolate teapot'

[WarrensWorld]

"Have you strained your greens". Gran, to us kids before a car ride to the seaside......

 

I'll let you figure it out.....

[Valkyrie]

Oooh yes, to wood in the hole and cabbage looking and not today thank you to rellies.

 

Tempus fugit - time flies for undone trousers

 

And thankies - I always wondered what thought did. I never found out.

 

Pillar to post - hasn't been around for a while.

 

Dad often answered the phone as "Egyptian Sand and Gravel" - those who didn't know him would apologise and ring off. Otherwise he would answer the phone in his best Goons voice and go "Ellloooo this is Eccles".

[jlo]

It's the first chance I have had to have a good look through this thread and there are quite a few that are familiar. We have a couple that come to mind - some that are variations on other contributions:-

 

It's looking black o'er fairther's taits (looking rather stormy over (for some reason) father's potatoes!)

The world is your lobster.

Mad as a snake

Dingbat is our name for the remote control.

Tha spawny eyed, parrot faced wazzock. (I think that this came from some ancient song done by a Sheffield DJ but can't remember the name of him.)

 

This thread reminds me a bit of a song that goes something like:-

"We're reyt down in t' coil oil where mud splats on t'winders

We've used all our coil up and we're naar daarn t' cinders

When boar biddy comes, e'll ne'er find us

cos we're reyt down in coil oil where mud splats on t'winder."

 

The posh version , to the same tune... "We are down in the basement where the mud adheres to the casement. We've used all our anthracite and we are now down to the residue. If the landlord arrives, he will never locate us as we are down in the basement where the mud adheres to the casement."

 

I have no idea where it comes from or why the heck I remember it!

[littlekh]

Hi!

Dad is Lancashire and Mum is Geordie, so I was brought up witha good mix!!

 

troos - trousers spelk - splinter

well, I'd go to the foot of our stairs - express surpise (how/why I have no idea!!)

wreck of the Hespress - like other previous, looking a right mess or... dragged through a hedge backwards

Ye Gods and little fishes! - expression of exasperation

 

As a teacher I have a several sayings but one of them every child in school can repeat is 'If it looks like fighting, it IS fighting'

 

I'll be thinking of these all night now!!

Karen