Things your mother said!

Brilliant remember my gran when you asked ‘what’s for dinner?’ She said

Dolls eyes and watercress’ utterly baffling.

She was a welsh speaker maybe lost in translation

Also ‘red hat no drawers’ my teenage dd had no idea what drawers were

Oh ‘don’t care was made to care’ and ‘you know what thought thought don’t you?’

No

Do as you like, you'll live a day longer!

Just remembered another one...
whenever I asked where she was going......'there and back to see how far it is'. If I asked what she'd been doing.......'made a shirt and gone to Leeds'!??? What was all that about??

My DH loves to hear me tell him the things my mother said.

Men only want ONE thing!

You can't make a fire from old cokes.

Both these things are true in my opinion though I hated to hear them quoted.

Now DH and I often quote her in some situations when we're watching a film on TV.

When dad went out he was 'going to see a man about a horse' or sometimes a horse.

If mam thought I looked a mess I was also told I looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards ...or sometimes I looked like 'lizzie from the felling' whoever that was. I've never heard that one from anyone else.

Dooh! I meant sometimes a dog.

If one of us children was caught picking our nose, Mum (and my grandma) would say,
"Come out, it's not a chip shop!"

Yes NannyJan - "If a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly."
And "The devil makes work for idle fingers."
And "A fair day's work for a fair day's pay."
The good old Protestant work ethic - no wonder I feel guilty idling my time reading GN threads

Yes the work ethic was well and truly drummed into us wasn't it dbDB77 . Sitting down with nothing to do was frowned on, knitting, potatoes to peel, brass or silver to polish, all jobs to do sitting down

If asked what was for tea or dinner, mum would sometimes reply, 'If it, if i've got it you can have it, If I haven't then you can't'!!!

"No sense, no feeling!"
I was surprised at how often that applied when my own kids were growing up.

"I'll bang your heads together, you two!"
Ditto

I lived in Liverpool as a child, and if we were trying to fool my mother she would say " I didnt come over on the boat yesterday" which I later learnt was a reference to the poor Irish

No peace for the wicked and I want never gets.
If I went to mother saying I had a tummy ache or a headache she would tell me it was the wickedness coming out ☹️

Mum was mostly a " do as you would be done by" & " never judge a book by its cover" kind of person. But a phrase that has passed down and DGC now say is " cheatie comes beatie" if anyone tries to fix the dice or look at someones hand in cards etc ???

Loving all these..so funny!... and many my mum said too. I always remember one particularly funny/poignant one from a book of children's sayings I have.. "mummy tells me off with a nasty smack in her voice"... I know just what she meant! ?

‘If the wind changes you’ll be stuck like that’

‘Don’t care was made to care’

grannygravy I used to get the one about clean and good condition underwear although not about it needing to match.

I was involved in a car accident and was taken to hospital. I was moving house at the time and dressed in scruffy clothes including my comfy underwear that had seen better days. Yep, there I was in a&e thinking "OMG I have my scruffy underwear on!"

Close your legs there is a bus coming. That got me in trouble when I worked I told a lady that and she stood up and asked if it was her's. Everyone started laughing.

My mum used to say “ don’t come running to me if you break your leg” also the obligatory make Sure you’ve got clean underwear on.
My grandma used to say if we had a cough and didn’t want to go to school “it wasn’t the cough that carried her off it was the coffin they carried her off in”

Vest and plastic mac - yes!! and a hat if it was cold.

When I was being pathetic 'you look like a dying duck in a thunderstorm'

'How's the enemy?' - referring to time, she didn't work, had home help twice a week and didn't drive so didn't have to run me around!!

'What will the neighbours think' grrrr

My mother frequently called me a daft apeth. I always wondered what an apeth was, and thought she was likening me to a monkey. It wasn't until years later that I realised it was 'a daft happorth' - apparently a Yorkshire expression, (she was from Sheffield).

My beloved Mother would say, ‘he/she would have his nose up in the air if his ar*e would let him/her’. The vision always cracked me up, I never knew why she said it. She also would say when the children were babies, ‘children make your arms ache when they are small, but your heart ache when they grow, you adopt all their cares’

It will end in tears ! Was my Mums fav saying

My dad said that if I swallowed an apple pip a tree would grow inside me and I'd die. I was daft enough to believe it and it worried me for years.
A few years back there was a newspaper story about a Russian man who'd actually got a bit of an apple tree inside his lungs. Crikey! So it was true!
When my sister and I were giggly teenagers mum would say, "You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl!"
"Worse things happen at sea" was another favourite.