Mums sayings.

Oh so many memories thank you.
She looks as though she'd eat her own children - not a compliment but saved a thousand words
She looks as though she's been poured in red hot and allowed to cool about someone in very tight clothing.
There'll be tears before bedtime - if we were playing really noisily.
I'll bang your two heads together til sparks fly - if my brother and I were quarrelling

She's got a face you could chop wood on, Thanks DEE for this, still chuckling!

If I pointed out a small mark on something I was wearing mum would say "Come on, a blind man would be glad to see that!"
I used to say to my daughter: "Mummy always wins, because Mummy is bigger!" No arguing with that, is there?

when you think about it, a lot of parents were saying unpleasant stuff, some of it just quaint and now and then funny or a bit odd.
I don't think that I ever used any of those expressions from 'yesteryear' with our own DC or DGC except for 'wait and see' and 'I'll think about it.'
times change, and expressions die out, or do you still use them?

My mother use to say to us if we found something amusing, which she didn't find funny:" You will be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute!"

Being regional, I have only heard about half of the expressions used [on here] but one I remember from Grandfather, on somebody being bandy legged [you don't see that now either] was 'he couldn't stop a pig in a passage!'

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

you're old enough to know better .... when my annoying brother and I were fighting ...(he started it!!)

never in a month of Sundays

once in a blue moon

Pound head & halfpenny feet: look after the pennies the pounds will look after themselves: stop making faces the wind will change & you will stay like that forever: faint heart never made a fine lady: eat up your food there are children in Africa starving, I always felt like saying (but didn't dare) send it to them then lol

Pensionpat --- I remember Charlies Dead too. I tell people at work about it and get blank looks all round. Maybe it was just a London thing.

When anyone showed my Granny a new item of clothing, she would say "it's lovely, I wish you health to wear it". I still like that one
One which to this day I've not forgiven her for was, "if you laugh today you'll cry tomorrow". I didn't have much to laugh about as a child but that awful saying of hers put a stop to it altogether.

I remember "Charlie's dead" as well. My mum and her family were from London
My daughter and I still try and keep up with the sayings we were bought up with. It'd be a shame for them to die out.

We had 'Charlie's dead' on the south coast too - with the reply 'So would you be if you were hanging!'

seacliffwe always got "It's six of one and half a dozen of the other" when we tried to blame each other for the arguments.
When she was getting ready to go out "I'll pass with a push and a strong wind behind me"
Sing before breakfast, cry before supper" - I suspect this one was invented by my gran to keep us quiet in a morning.

"As black as yer 'at!"

If any of us played our Mum up as children, as all kids do, our Mum used to say:
"That's it ! I am going to call the Policeman". ( The one who used to walk the beat where we lived )
Always worked.?

Oh yes, that classic Motherly saying.
" Put that down, you will have someones eye out in a minute " !!!!!!!!!!!

"I'll swing for you!" When we were playing up.. I asked her what it meant, and my mum said her own mum had said it. She thought it might have meant that she would kill us, and be hanged.

If I wanted to know what something was and my grandma didn't know she would say 'Its a wigwam for ducks to perch on'

When my children stayed with mum and it was after bedtime she would say 'have you seen the clock'?

If you don't stop crying I will give you something to cry about!

the wind will change and your face will stay like that - if I was pulling moody faces.

Take a telling

Mutton dressed as lamb

And she used to say bearsteak instead of berserk!!