Did your mother used to say……..

REKA

Ah yes, neither use not ornament. My grandma would often say that!

She also told me I'd melt my bone marrow if I sat with my back against the radiator.

How many of these do we still use? Certainly I say Neither use not ornament, it seems to be As much use as a chocolate teapot these days.
Fur cost and no knickers described a type of woman who was All for show.

I remember her telling me when I asked what was for dinner, run around the table and hold your breath.

That should say “yer still KNOW nowt”

My mum had loads of sayings, many of which have already been said.
I also liked:
A person idling their time away was either “sitting there like cheese at four pence” or “sittin’ on t’wall watchin’ t’band go by”
Someone feeling a bit down wanted “puttin’ in a bag an’ shekkin’ up”
Someone cheeky had “more front than Blackpool”
A person coughing would be told “Cough it up, it might be a gold watch”
A person with a good appetite could “eat two taters more than a pig”
And often said to me (jokingly I think!) “I’ve taught you all I know an’ yer still no nowt”
She had a wonderful way with words and I miss her every day.

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.

My Mum used to advise plenty of moisturiser everyday or "You'll end up looking like those awful, wrinkly California women!"

Where that came from God alone knows - as far as I can recall there weren't any Californians in rural Lancashire back then.

No 🙁

Another one who was told I was neither use nor ornament - but was also told that I was standing there like one of Lewis’s. It was a good few years later that I realised she was referring to the mannequins in Lewis’s shop window!

If someone was very slim it was said that there was more meat on a butchers pencil . Or another one was , he’s as fit as a butchers dog . Both Liverpool sayings I think .

When you were going out to meet friends, ''Remember to be good, and if you can't be good be careful''
My grandmother's version '''Be careful of boys, or they will get you into trouble''.Trouble was getting pregnant before marriage.

Fallingstar

My old mum would always say the same thing whenever I went out for the night as a teenager ‘always keep your hand on your ha’penny’ which never failed to embarrass me in front of my friends when they came to call for me.

My MIL used to say that.

My mother used to rake out the ashes in our open fire then twist newspaper then sticks on top and then bring in a heavy bucket of coal. Coal was the final layer. She lit the paper with a match which ignited the sticks which lit the coal Supposedly. She would go upstairs then to make the beds and sometimes when she came back to the living room the fire had gone out. Well then she would throw up her arms and say”God save Ireland!!!!”

God made them , the devil matched them..
does anyone remember wearing a knitted simmit...that was how it was pronounced, I think it was in place of a liberty bodice...my mum use to cut the sleeves out of old jumpers, we had to wear it over our vests...

Hate the word 'knickers' pants or underwear🤣

I had (still have) thick unruly curly hair.
Mum used to tell me I looked as if I'd been through a hedge backwards.

Not advice as such, but when she got tired and stressed with too much to do, she used to say, "What a life without a wife."

Thorntrees

*Every Preston Guild* that brought back memories.
I grew up in Preston Lancs.
Preston guild was held every 20 years, I took part in one as a child.
My Grandad used to say-* I’ll go to tfoot of our stairs* when told something he couldn’t believe had occurred.

My grandparents used to say "I'll to tfoot of our stairs" too.

2 Also, said to me when I was little and amused them in some way, "Ee, you're a cought drop!"

If any of us children were spotted picking our nose, we would be told: Come out, it's not a chip shop!"

I sometimes say these myself, to confuse or amuse the grandchildren 😁

Some of my mum’s were, ahem, a little bit racist but she had no idea really! (And we lived in the middle east for 29 years… she went there to join my dad as a young bride )
One of her regular sayings to express mild surprise ‘well, bugger me drunk.’
Again, no idea really…

Every Preston Guild that brought back memories.
I grew up in Preston Lancs.
Preston guild was held every 20 years, I took part in one as a child.
My Grandad used to say-* I’ll go to tfoot of our stairs* when told something he couldn’t believe had occurred.

Chocolatelovinggran

KatrinaMarina, our version of an odd pair, or two miserable folk was thankfulness that they have found each other, as " they would have spoiled another couple".
WithNobsOnIt - are you from Lancashire ?I had not heard " Every Preston Guild", meaning not every frequently, until I went to Manchester to university. I found it rather puzzling.

I lived in Lancashire near the Pennines and heard people say ‘every Preston Guild’.
When we moved down South many moons ago and I said this to others they looked at me blank. Same blank look when I referred to a ‘pot towel’ which is of course a ‘tea towel’ further South.

Oh, and on touring holiday a member of the group and I were in agreement that one of the hotels was " fur coat and no knickers" . It was superficially glossy, but ...

KatrinaMarina, our version of an odd pair, or two miserable folk was thankfulness that they have found each other, as " they would have spoiled another couple".
WithNobsOnIt - are you from Lancashire ?I had not heard " Every Preston Guild", meaning not every frequently, until I went to Manchester to university. I found it rather puzzling.

It was Fallingstar. I lived near a home for unmarried mother's and remember hearing girls crying in the phone box as they begged to bring their baby home. "Just look at him mum, don't make me give him up.,". Many a day I'd be standing waiting to use the phone trying to hide my tears.

theworriedwell

Be careful not to get into trouble, pregnant, but if you do I'll never turn my back on you and the baby, you'll always have a home here.

That is such a reassuring thing to say.
Xx

Be careful not to get into trouble, pregnant, but if you do I'll never turn my back on you and the baby, you'll always have a home here.

My Mother’s saying was “If things don’t alter they’ll stay as they are”.