Phrases your mother used

"Shes had all her doings taken away" said in very hushed tones when talking about someone having had a hysterectomy. Always made me prick up my ears when she whispered

Fur hat and no knickers
about someone putting on airs and graces with no wealth or prestige to back it up

We'll be here until Dick docks

As cute as a bag of monkeys

I'm in my apple cart

I'd call the Queen my aunt if ...

I'll be looking for this breath one of these days

When we were acting up and fighting, Mum would sometimes come downstairs and say, "I don't care who STARTED IT, and I don't care whose FAULT IT IS, and I don't care who FINISHED IT!" If she asked you to fetch something and you were taking your time getting back, she'd call, "Are you bringing it or are you manufacturing it?"

When we asked what was for our next meal .
Ifit! If it goes round you get some, if it doesn’t you don’t .

From my grandmother 'Lazy people take the most trouble' meaning it would be much less work to do it properly in the first place than have to continually patch it up later!

Our Norfolk Gran was the one full of sayings. Some of her favourites:
The pot calling the kettle black;
Least said soonest mended;
She was putting on her parts [airs and graces];
Thas a rum un [its odd];
Load of old squit [nonsense].

Dad often said "kind hearts are worth more than coronets."

If you expect nothing you'll not be disappointed.

My lovely mum used to love saying something a bit naughty then feign no idea whilst laughing. She had many strange words one being he's got "dicktolleroo", that's some illness.
I have written as many as I can think of down so never forgotten. Her wisdom and knowledge far out reached Google.

Mamma7

This makes me smile because only yesterday DD told her DD to “pick her feet up” when she was upstairs at my house. My Mum used to say it to me all the time.... I obviously morphed into my mother at some point years ago! ?

Haven't we all???

I see said the blind man as he waved his wooden leg in the air !

Don’t put it down, put it away

A blind man would be glad to see it.

“The sights you see when you haven’t got a gun”

She/he’ll have your guts for garters!

"If you fall down and break your legs don't come running to me" ??

She’d fall off Co-op and land in the divvy that one ...... ie fall on her feet every time

if you break your leg dont come running to me...

Until I was about 7 I thought waitnsee came in about 20-30 different varieties as every time I asked what was for dinner I got told "wait and see"! Other things were "she's all fur coat and no knickers" about the pretentiously posh + "I'm not running more than one kid bath" (as about a dozen kids from our street were dipped and scrubbed, a few at a time, in the same bath!)

I'll try killed can't
Horse play always ends in tears
I want never gets, please is o'er late

Do as I say, not do as I do.

My mother used to say “Laziness is not worth a damn unless it’s well carried out”. Also “If a jobs worth doing, it’s worth doing well”. Both have proved to be very true.

"There are no pockets in shrouds", when someone was being mean with their money as they wouldn't be able to take it with them.
Also, "don't stand there like a dying duck in a thunderstorm" if I was faffing and not hurrying up.

My MiL used to say that some one was "just poorly" which I took to mean they had something like a cold but she actually meant they were at deaths door!