Mums sayings.

"Good guessers never get married"
one of my mum's sayings (despite fact she was happily married!).

Don't come running to me when you break your legs.

'Self praise is no praise' - my Mother could knock the wind out of anybody's sails at twenty paces.

It's dark over Will's mother's and lots of others that have already been mentioned.

This thread has brought back so many memories of my lovely Mum who died 3 years ago this month.

They're all kippers and lace curtains! Same meaning as 'fur coat and no knickers'

You have to eat a bit of dirt before you die! Probably why our immune systems were tougher!
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One of my mother's sayings was "It's enough to make a cat laugh". There were lots if others but I just can't remember them at the moment. I had an Irish cousin who if he had a painful leg would say "Come leg or I'll leave ye" which always made me laugh!!!

My mum says of anyone faffing around (another favourite) you're like a fart in a colander - can't get out for holes. And you'd laugh to see a pudding crawl.

Says oxo on the back of busses but they don't sell it.
When I asked why? Because there's railings round the park or what's that, leo's for meddlers

My lovely Mum used to say "she's in her decibells" or I'm just my decibells". We knew it mentionsnh not dressed tidily but where it came from I have no idea.

sharmck omg, i nearly choked on my toast i was laughing so much, i have tears running down my face, thank god for tena lady

My most disappointing one from my gran when asked how we were getting to the shops - "on Shanks's pony"

"A whistling woman
A crowing hen
Brings the devil
From his den"

Another version, even more anti feminist is:

"A whistling woman
Or a crowing hen,
Is neither pleasing
To God nor men."

Bobbysgirl that made me laugh my head off, in fact there are so many great sayings on here i am going to write them down and use them, my friends and i write jokes inside each others birthday cards, but this year i will use some of these sayings

When I was a teenager I always got "your not going out like that!"

What's for dinner = ifit, if it goes round you'll have some if it don't you won't.

Pull that face and the wind changes you'll stay like that. I did like pulling faces

My D's modern reply to the question "What's for dinner?" Ifits

if it's in the freezer....

...because Y's not a 'Z' and Z's not a 'Y'....when I asked 'why?'. and if too giggly was told.."it'll end in tears!!!!"

"You'll be crying before the day's over"

When my sister and I were cavorting around having fun. Eh?

Gruesome one, if we said we didn't care she'd sing" don't care was made to care, don't care was hung, don't care was put in a pot, and boiled til he was done " Bizarre! ?

If you fall over and break a leg don't you come running to me! . And the other favourite if we asked what's for dinner was Air Pie without the pastry. Takes you back a few years doesn't it?

My mum made her's up "Tarrididdle" she used it often to mean nonsense. We never argued with it once it was spoken.

My father in law often says "rough as a badgers arse" or he/she/we didn't have a halfpenny to scratch his/her/our arse with"

Our kids would say of their Dad - if we ever asked how long or how far he always said "two days"

'Bread and pull it round the table'. When asked whats for dinner

Another mum in law one.....'He's got his Sunday-go-to-meeting shoes on' for someone dressed up

My mum used to say "through it like a dose of salts" to describe doing something quickly: we did try to tell her it wasn't a very nice image to no avail! Her other favourites were "wanking high heels" (no idea where that came from, she didn't swear & we did educate her on that one!) & finally one I still don't get but love "he's a bit chase me I've got chocolate" to describe someone a bit full of themselves-would love to know if anyone else recognises that one?

Keep your hand on your ha'penny !
It was the closest she ever got to telling me about sex.

Mum in law......"Thinks his body every self cos his mother's got a mangle."

"He's like a Piffy up a stick"