Made-up Sayings

#Gingster So did mine and I remember asking her how a man with no arms could get his money out his pockets.

The other one was 'cook's privilege' ie whoever made the french toast, baked the biscuits etc always got first refusal of the last one even if someone else wanted it.

Tale not take!

One mealtime our daughter wanted to tell everyone at the dinner table a "big story" that happened to her that day. She was about 10 at the time. We all waited in great anticipation. She proceeded to tell us that a duck had flown down into the playground at school that day. Me, my DH and her two older brothers all burst into laughter. We'd been expecting a lot more. From that day onwards if anyone of us tells a pretty pointless take it is labelled A Duck Story.

A favourite of my mother’s was, when we were looking for something that she could see, “If it had a tongue, it would bite you.” My Mum said "if it was a dog it would have bitten you".

I am a Liverpudlian where odd sayings were everywhere. My mum who died at 50 was an amazing character and when anything really annoyed her she would exclaim “suffering ice cakes” I am at an age when I sit and recall my childhood but I still do not know what ice cakes were and why they were suffering! I have looked it up on the net but no answers! I love threads like this.

jenni123

2 sayings when the children were young. If they asked where I was going I would say 'there and back to see how far it is', the other when they asked 'what's for dinner?' reply was 'air pie and windy pudding', have no idea where they came from.

According to my husband, his Dad would say "a rasher of wind and a fried snowball". Lovely phrase.

cornergran

We have an ‘oojamyflip’, a close relation to timetogo’s thingymagig. Otherwise it’s the whatsit in the thingy - or indeed the thingy in the whatsit. It’s a wonder we find anything. .

My husband does that, and I generally know what he's talking about; either I'm telepathic, or I know him too well.

It wasn’t till I started school that I realised it was only our family that called going to the toilet was either for a wee or naps. This dates back to my brother not wanting to go a poo in his nappy?

My mum's saying was "What the eye doesn't see the foot will surely step in"!

Why? :- Because u are in the alaphabet and y is not. (said as:- cos Y's in the alphabet and you're not)

What’s for diner? ....Kippers and custard.

I can’t find...,,,,Do Mum looking not Dad looking.

I don’t want to walk.... Hop then.

My grandfather when talking about local females had 2 jokey phrases, "You knows her, you knows her as well as I do, little widow woman, walks about a lot on her feet!"

or the alternative "Oh yes, they've lived here for generations, her granny used to mangle our stairs"

If asked where he planned to go on holiday my father used to reply "our gate". He also used the phrase "it's black over Bill's mothers" if it looked like it was going to rain

When asked what was for tea Mum would always say "ifits" meaning if it was in the cupboard we were having it.

If my DH thought someone was trying to fool him he would ask "do you think I come up the Avon on a push bike?". When talking about someone who was well off they were "richer than God"

To those sitting around doing nowt my Grannie said, "Well, this won't knit bootees for baby's feet" whether or not there were weans in the family.

"Pass the ooger, please" meaning the sugar, as a cousin of my father's had apparently said ooger as a child.

I remember talking about undrawing the curtains in the morning and being corrected.

It made no sense to me that you drew them at night and used the same word in the morning when you drew them back.

This may have been bilingual confusion, like saying "I itched it" instead of "I scratched it" as Danish has two different expressions for drawing curtains and only one word that means both that something itches and that you scratch it.

What about breaking wind ? It was Who let Percy out of prison? in our house!

My stepdad, when asked to perform a chore that he couldn't be bothered with, would say 'A man forced a pig and the pig died.'

Boolya

Coming from Geordie stock, my Mum, when surprised by something would say, “well I’ll go to Shields.” I have no idea if it was the north or south one!

The North West version is I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

My Dad used to use water on his hair to calm his waves. He called it tapoline! He also called eggs, cackle berries!?

There was a sitcom on tv late sixties ‘The Lovers’ with Richard Beckinsale as Geoffrey Bobbles bonbon and Paula Wilcox as Beryl. Geoffrey complained of having been misled but pronounced it as mizzled. Ever after if one of us said ‘I thought....’ such as ‘I thought we were having chips with that’ or ‘I thought we were going to town today’ the answer has always been ‘then clearly you were mizzled’
Even the grandchildren say it now.

I get my murds in a wuddle ( words in a muddle )

If we were sitting chatting my mum would say, "Well this is neither fishing nor mending the net", meaning we should be getting on with something.
My daughter used to want the same as her friend for tea. Friend's grandma used to say they were having "bee's knees and chicken's elbows".

We would often use the expression 'wet suits' - for 'when it suits' i.e. for someone to do something or not.

Georgesgran The stair one was used in our house too. It reminded me of a ward sister who used to say, “Use your head to save your legs” which results in me, even to this day, carrying far to much up and down the stairs in one go. It used to drive my late DH bonkers,
A favourite of my mother’s was, when we were looking for something that she could see, “If it had a tongue, it would bite you.”

Tarte Monmartre was a family favourite desert. When she was young and couldn't say it DD called it Tart My Fart. When a friend of my stepson came to.lunch she told him we we having that. He looked a bit nonplussed, then said oh you mean Fart Pie. Ever since then .......!!!

My ex husband used to say ‘has a chicken got lips?’ instead of something like ‘has a desert got sand?’ It caused a lot of amusement and I found myself saying it eventually!