Mums sayings.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Everything in moderation.

'Life isnt fair and you need to get used to it' (Apparently I say this to my daughters and one of them caught herself saying to someone recently)
All wrapping and no sweetie
Your chickens will come home to roost
My dad used to say the 'as old as my tongue'thing to my children

What's for dinner - three jumps at the cupboard door!
When me and my sister were being troublesome - I wish I'd had giraffes instead!
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When Mum was surprised by anything she used to say 'Well I'll go to the back of our stairs' not sure this was possible as the pantry was behind the stairs.

What's for dinner? = air pie and wind pudding.
It's 8 o'clock and not a baby in the house bathed.

Hearing a lot of your stories made me think of my mum she would say a lot of those sayings. I do say myself what goes around comes around and my gd always says 'that's karma nan' ?

Am I allowed to add one from my mil? She once described someone as acting "like a blue-arsed you-know-what", and that became a family favourite.

No but I've heard 'this won't get the baby bathed'! Say it myself sometimes!

When she felt she'd dawdled long enough over a cup of tea my Grandmother would say, " Well, this won't make the bairn a new frock, nor mend the old one " anyone else heard that? N. E. Yorkshire

If ever we asked my Mum how old she was she would say 'as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth'.

You/ they can be huffed, pleased or delighted.
Dad saying.

My Nan used to say "she's got a tongue so sharp she will slit her own throat one day"

"You'll never miss the water til the well runs dry" and "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" were two of Mum's favourites.

Same thing, different gravy!

"Life ISN'T fair!"

When I asked my gran how old she was "As old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth"
A tall thin girl was "A lark in leggings"
What's for dinner? "A sniff of the butcher's apron"
If someone was leaving too soon "Here's your hat what's your hurry?"

"To give a thing and take it back, God will ask you - 'where's that'
You'll say I don't know and God will send you down below.....

My mum actually said that to me today .....???
You gotta love her ....❤️❤️❤️

"You'd laugh if your Granny's arse was on fire!"

You are full of complaints that nobody dies of.

If we asked how old mum was she would say "one off up". No idea what it meant!!

if you fall and break your leg don't come running to me .... when we climbed the tree

You will knock me into the middle of next week. Every time the lounge door hit the back of mums chair!

Chickens knees and foxes elbows , if asked what was for dinner.

It's colder where there's none , if complaining my meal had gone cold

Only God knows and he doesn't have to answer to you , if I asked a difficult or stupid question

It was my dad who used to say

"that person has no bottom".

Took me a few years to work out what he meant.

Red hat no drawers !
No better than she should be !