Mums sayings.

Oh just remembered another one - 'crying on the other side of your face'. What on earth was that about?

'Your fat and lazy and I'm going to have you put in a home I never wanted you anyway'.

I think that was on one of her good days.

KatyK Stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about was one of my mother's favourites along with no better than she ought to be, which was extended to '... and a lot worse than she should be'.

There was also 'Red hat, no drawers' (of the underwear variety) and 'Here's my tits, my arse is following', of someone who stuck her chest out as she walked

and 'she's all kippers and curtains'

All "fur coat and no knickers" is still one of my favourite sayings.

My father-in-law used to describe some people as 'thick as pudding' and 'no better than she ought to be' whatever that meant

Fur coat, no knickers!
more ....
she can talk the hind legs off a donkey

if I asked too many questions my Granny said "As Asquith said.. Wait and see"

Someone who wore lots of jewellery - "she thinks she's Lady Docker".

I did actually google these people in recent years and now understand the statements.

at KatyK.

Stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about.

I remember my daughter saying " I will never say the the things to my children that you said to me, then I heard the words coming out of my mouth "
What goes around comes around .

I think you may be right Ana

I think the little girl had a little 'curl' right in the middle of her forehead, saak!

If if's and ands were pots and pans never a tinker there would be.

Many wells make a river, you jump in and make it bigger.

There was a little girl who had a little girl right in the middle of her forehead, when she was good she was very good, when she was bad she was horrid.

I also remember a phase of being scared of ghosts and mum said to me.... never be scared of the dead, its the ones that are alive you need to be wary of.

Neither a borrower or a lender be.

"Because I said so" - it drove me mad as a child and I have never said it to any of mine!

Not the usual ones, but my mother had a couple which have gone down in the annals - we still say them for a laugh.

'HMm, not OVER-keen' - when you realised there was yet another thing she didn't really like, since she was picking every bit of it out of her food.

'That HAIR!'
Invariably about anyone on TV with a mass of long, very curly or frizzy hair all round their face. Like Rebekah Whatshername at the time of the phone hacking scandal.

When my mother told my brother and me off for being thoughtless, all she did was make us smile because she would say 'It is lack of inconsideration'
One of her expressions which I have continued is 'Do as you would be done by'

'Two wrongs don't make a right'
'Little birds in the nest must agree'
My sister and I used to fight a lot.

'Share and share alike' - when Dsister had eaten all her sweets and wanted some of mine. The injustice of it!.

'I'll think about it '