Phrases your mother used

(There she was swanning around) like the Duchess of Buccleugh.Actually that was passed down from my grandmother, c.1920/30s

Where there’s mook thas brass ( she was a Yorkshire woman!)

Monica my mother was always saying that (to me)! and also "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

"Will you frame" was a favourite of my mother, meaning would I do something properly.

"because Why is a crooked letter" if you kept asking questions. Never really understood where it came from but we knew it meant "shut up"

Never say I told you so or it’s pot luck for tea. Her most popular saying until she died was “I got your father from Burtons window so handsome and tall”.

''She/he, looks like death warmed up'' Of someone poorly.

"I'll knock your heads together". But she never did.

Harrigran, that was another of mum's as well.

Auntiflo we always knew we were really ill when mum came out with the ‘death warmed up’ one. ?

My mum didn’t encourage you to stay in bed or do it herself “you die in bed”!

If you asked what’s for tea on a Sunday (after your Sunday dinner) the answer was “catch as catch can”. In other words get something yourself.

“Put t’wood in’t hole” - shut the door. “Were you born in a barn?” - shut the door. There’s a theme here!

'Hunger is a good sauce'. 'You've made your bed, now lie in it'. 'House devils and street angels'. 'What is to be, will be'. 'You can't put an old head on young shoulders'.

It's my Grandma's sayings I remember more:

"Dear me, let us be elegant or die," when getting ready to go out.

"A blind man would be glad to see it," if something homemade hadn't turned out particularly well.

"Ah well it's wet and warm," about a mediocre cuppa.

A lovely lady, always in the kitchen cooking!
RIP Grandma 1900-1980 ?

When I came home after playing outside for the day, my mum would tell me I was 'as black as Newgate's knocker'

All behind like a cow’s tail.

All round the pig market.

Come on, slow coach!

What did your last servant die of?

I recognise so many of the other sayings as well. What a lovely reminder

I say a lot of these, never mind my mum!

Good things come in little packages

Don't wish your life away!
(Said when one of us was impatient for some future event.)

"Do you want a smack?"

I never did but I got a few.....I'm glad that's changed!

Mind the roads.

"I wasn't born riding a bike up the river"
meaning "don't make me out to be a fool"

^Do you think I came up the Clyde on a bike/ banana boat?

Same meaning as above.

Never cast a clout till May is out

My Mum complained of a "clashy back end" day. I think she meant running all over the place but not getting much done

Also " clever as Dick's hat band" When I asked why was it clever she said because it went twice round his hat and tied in a bow at the back!

Have you got clean underwear on in case you get run over.

Have you got a clean hankie?