Did your mother used to say……..

Most of the above but mother always said
Never bring the priest or police to my door😂
And Never say die ..up man and try🤔

A place for everything and everything in its place.

There are two types of people, givers and takers.

He's been in Dickie's meadow.
Dickie's meadow was where you ended up if you were in trouble although I have no idea who Dickie was or where his meadow was located!
Fallingstar mum also used the "more than soft Mick"

Below is a list of things my mother, her family and the working classbpeople of the Great Northern City used to say when l was a child.

They were commonplace and no one batted a eyelid or took offence.This was when old ladies routinely called their black cats. Nigger, Sambo,Blackie and Darkie

1. Seldom in wonderful.
2. Last Preston Guild.
3. A good road through you.
4. Cold as buggery.
5..So thin she looked like Belsen
6.Would have him if his arse was covered in diamonds.
7. Tastes like gnat piss
8. Want never gets.
9. He was so black he was navy
10. Mard arse.

Every homely I come out with DH says that's your Mum talking...

JamesandJon33n my interpretation of all fur coat and no knickers was somewhat different. It referred to someone who was all show but no class. (Liverpool). Where did your interpretation originate from

Me . Where are you going ?
Mums reply . There and back to see how far it is !

“Good clean dirt, keeps them healthy “ whenever my boys came in covered in mud from the garden! Don’t recall her saying that to me when I came home dirty after playing in the park though!!!

Eating fish will make you clever.

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!

I remember all of those except the potatoes one!

my mum also said keep your hand on your ha'penny was that an East End saying?

"You know what thought did"
(thought apparently swallowed something, but I can't remember what it was!)

"Laugh and the World laughs with you, cry and you cry alone"

I remember most of these. It's strange that these sayings were so widespread across the country but nobody says them now,

JamesandJon33

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.

We had ‘eat it up it’ll put muscles on your braces’

Elless

Most of the above 😂

'Because Y's not Z and you can't make it'
Mrs Do as you would be done by (Water Babies)

If I asked too many questions - "Because Y's a crooked letter and Z's not any better".

Most of the above 😂

'Because Y's not Z and you can't make it'
Mrs Do as you would be done by (Water Babies)

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.

‘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’

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.

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 😁

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

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.

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!’ 😂

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

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'