Things my parents said ...

"They'd spoil another couple" (2 unattractive people together.
"Peas above sticks" ( too big for their boots)
"This is neither fishing nor mending the net" (when we were sitting doing nothing and there was work to be done)
"Lay'oles for meddlers" (when asked "what's that?) - just found out that lay holes is another name for graves, so is another way of saying that 'curiosity killed the cat'! Who knew?

"Actions always have consequences", "ye shall reap what you sow", and most of the ones read above. Lovely trip down memory lane especially when I heard my son telling GD off and adding the first one. "What are consequences" she said!!!!! Probably thought it was a new chocolate bar.

"Hunger 's the best sauce" when I wanted ketchup.

Take your coat off, otherwise you won't feel the benefit.

"Talk's cheap" was one of my mums favourites, and one I often quote myself. My daughter said it to me a while back, when I was telling her all the promises someone had made me, which never materialised.

Almost on a daily basis I heard about the starving children in Africa Imperfect. I also used to say that they are welcome to my food and this was with the tears streaming down my face. I always regretted it because my mother then resorted to violence.

My mum told me a shopkeeper had "wiped the floor" with a child who was stealing. I was horrified, taking it literally and thinking he had cleaned the floor with the child's hair.

Talks cheap my mother used to say, and how true it is, as people can talk nonsense and can't back it

A pounds your best friend

Another, but not words of wisdom ha ha was "I'll give you a clout round t earhole " I'm a Yorkshire lass, but she was Scottish though

My mother's was 'If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly!' when we tried to skimp on chores we'd been set. (We didn't think it was worth doing in the first place)

Franbern we sometimes got "Bread and pullet" as well. Other times it was "Windmill pie-if it'll go round"

Our dinners were " straw and caramels", or " tripe and treacle".

" Nae sense in wastin' two hooses" ( when two unattractive people got together!)

" This won't get the bairn a new bonnet".

" The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the pavement".

And many more....

If asked what was for dinner was told by my Mum 'bread and pullet - the one the pulls the hardest gets the most'. No idea where this came from and have never heard anyone else ever say it!!!

From my Mum ....
It takes two to tango ........ when there was any scandal.

Imperfect 27 - my mother said exactly that - and I got boxed ears for telling her to post my toast crusts out to them !!

If you eat all that you'll be sick!
(I never was)

What's for dinner was answered with "Air pie and kick-of-the-cat!" Or "Sh*t with sugar..

my mother had so many gems we could never work out

Much wants more

A complaint of it's cold or tough

Brought- colder / tougher where's there none

But it's too hot brought - hotter where's there none , left us baffled

I want doesn't bring I've got

My father to the cry of - but everyone is going

Not every one, your not

Pride feels no pain -when she was raking a brush through my tangled hair (and putting it in rags for ringlets when I was little-too little to understand what it meant!)

It's six of one and half a dozen of the other.-or
I don't care who started it but I'l finish it-both when my brother and I were fighting.

We used to hear about the children in Africa too.

"Its my door, and if anyone is going to slam it, it'll be me!"
Said by mum when we were trying to flounce out of the room.

"I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it!"

"Children in Africa would be glad of that!" -when we were being fussy over food. My parents were very strict and we had to have our clear plate before we were allowed to depart from the table. If dad was out, we would sometimes backchat my mother by grumbling "Well, put it in an envelope and send it to them!" We knew we wouldn't get a backhand from her - but we did still eat it all!

My dads famous lines when we were having fun ( and perhaps getting carried away)

" cut it out, a joke's a joke but you've gone too far"

Miserable git .

"Self-praise is no recommendation" - said by Mum to any sign of boasting.