Did your mother used to say……..

I’ll try killed can’t
I want never gets, please is o’er late

If you used the word “she” instead of someone’s name my mother would say,”Who’s she - the cat’s mother”?

Neither use nor ornament seems to be a common one and I actually say it myself now.
One thing my old mum would say if I ever asked for something like more mashed potato at the table etc., would be ‘you’ve had more than soft Mick and he’s had enough’.
Another, when someone looked cheesed off with something was ‘he’s had his egg and chips’.

This thread has me in stitches- I had never heard the one about “if you fall off the wall and break your leg don’t come to me for sympathy “! Hilarious!

Sadgrandma

The day before my wedding my Mum told me “if you don’t both reach an orgasm at the same time you won’t get pregnant”! She had three children, nine years between the first two and twelve years between the second and third!!

🤣🤣🤣

Yes all of those above
Don’t wash your hair when you’re on a period
You ve got potatoes growing under your nails
When the sun was coming out on a dull day “Here comes Pheobe”
Dark sky “Looking dark over Wills wife s mothers”
If you ask where they re going “to see a man about a dog”
If you re pulling faces “if the wind changes you ll stay like that”

Cossy

Many many things:

Don’t pull faces, the wind will change and you’ll stay like that

Wear clean knickers, in case you get run over!

Wear a vest or you’ll catch a chill
Put your coat on or you’ll catch a cold

Close your mouth or flies will get in

Wash behind your ears, do you don’t grow potatoes (really haha)

Eat your carrots so you’ll see in the dark.
Eat up your crusts so your hair will curl

Don’t eat walking down the street, it’s common.

And my two particular favourites,

Don’t sit on radiators you’ll get piles
Don’t put cold feet up at the fire, you’ll get chilblains, I did both, I got neither!

I did wear clean knickers every day and I did get run over!

Did we have the same mother? 😂

My mum used to say about my brother in law ,he'd skin a flea for a ha'penny

My DH says if he said 'I wish such and such would happen' his mum would say 'Wish in one hand, poo in the other and see which one gets full first'.

If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about meaning a good smacking.

'You must have been born in a field.' That's because I used to leave doors open!

And 'You make life hard for yourself.' At the time I'd got three children under five, the eldest totally blind, so things were a bit challenging but I do wish I'd asked her what she meant. (She and my dad helped a lot with the children, by the way, so she wasn't uncaring.)

dustyangel

Always moisturise your neck at the same time as your face and rub any left over cream into your elbows. I doubt if anyone ever notices my stunning elbows.

I wish I'd known to moisturise my elbows!

I thought to see a man about a dog referred to going to the toilet which was not the word to be used as it was common

I've heard most of these before but it's true about chilblains and a hot fire.

I arrived in England aged 10 from NZ in February. There was snow and my feet were wet and freezing. No central heating so I would warm up in front of the fire and had the itchiest chilblains.

I was told never to go in a car with a stranger. That was sensible advice except as a small child I didn't know what a stranger was so refused a lift once, in the pouring rain from my mum's friend.

" Neither use nor ornament" is a very useful phrase handed down the family.
It's in regular use today...
My contribution to family wisdom, repeated by daughters, is " pearls before swine", a Bible quote.

When driven to distraction by my brother and me arguing my mother would say " I've a good mind to put on my hat and coat and leave" - which puzzled me as she didn't have a hat

Someone of your intelligence should know better!

There are plenty of children in the world who would be glad to have this to eat . ( I used to think , then why dont we send them it, but darent say it out loud!)

Get your head out of that book, (or more often get your nose out of that book) and get some fresh air.

How can you sit in this mess and read? Tidy this place up at once!

You are the eldest, dont let Denise get in the puddles
or You are the eldest, make sure they behave themselves, you are responsible
That was from about the age of 5/6 for my sister and later my brother. Whatever they did wrong, they would be told off , but then I would also get told off for not stopping them, My sister was my height and probably a bit heavier too. There was no physical way I could actually stop her doing anything!!

Jobs must be done first. Have you done your homework. put your clean things out for the morning?

Dont eat in the street, dont eat in your school uniform.
What would your granny think of you doing X or Y.

(Actually my beloved granny was the most kind and caring person who told me she loved me and that I was a good and kind girl, and could do anything I wanted if I tried enough. Her example , to this day, is my yardstick. On any occasion I am worried or unsure of what to do, I simply think " what would my granny do?" . Over the years she has steered me from wrong paths and been my comfort in any hard places.
She gave me many gifts, an important one being a love of reading, which has been a joy all my life)

Most of the above plus:

'You have to suffer to be beautiful' when wearing hair rollers in bed.

'Don't swallow chewing gum or it will kill you .'

My mother referred to 'what all women have.' She meant periods but I thought it was about babies.

'Wear a liberty bodice because you are chesty'

You make a better door than a window said if I was in the way

Sadgrandma

The day before my wedding my Mum told me “if you don’t both reach an orgasm at the same time you won’t get pregnant”! She had three children, nine years between the first two and twelve years between the second and third!!

Goodness!
I can’t help remembering (told by my DM) what a GM apparently said to my mother, on the morning of her elder sister’s wedding (DM was already married) - this was just before the start of WW2.

‘Does she know? Does she know? Tell her!’ 😂

DMiL used to say of a minute speck of dirt on a surface: "It would do a blind man good to see it".

I had to resist the temptation to reply that it would do a blind man good to see a barn door at three paces.

Don’t dismiss your mother’s warning about swallowing chewing gum. Look what happened to these poor ladies 😆

You eat a peck of dirt before you die.

A peck varies in weight, but, if measuring flour, it is probably about 14 lbs!
That could the stone I need to lose 😁

1..stop that or you'll be laughing on the other side of your face....
2...someone who thought they were better than anyone else, fur coat and no knickers
3...He'd take the bread out of your mouth and then come back for the butter...I think that was a thief she was meaning.

‘Do you want jam on it’. - when someone was asking for too much
‘That man/woman would make a good doorstop’ about someone who is no good at their job, usually a politician.
‘You never get owt for nowt’

Potatoes in your ears.
Of the sky…Dark over aunt Maud’s
If you didn ‘t finish your dinner….The Chinese could do with that.
Fur coat and no knickers…a willing woman
All mouth and no trousers…a belligerent man.
Bad luck to cross on the stairs.
Bad luck to put shoes on the table.
And my dad’s favourite….Eat it up. It’ll put hairs on your chest.