Phrases your mother used

There’s no such word as can’t .

Usually if I was climbing or other risky behaviour ‘don’t come running to me if you fall and break your leg’. It was only years later I saw the humour in it

"I see they've taken a leaf out of MY book" meaning she thought she was smart and others copied her. Oh...and..."Your hair is your crowning glory". My dad loved to pronounce "wisely" and often prefaced his sayings with "I always say..." . "I always say that late nights bring sad mornings". I think he meant I'd be tired, but maybe he also meant I'd regret what I got up to the night before!

My dad always said ‘you can’t put brains where there’s no brains’ lol ? x

“Steady past your granny’s”. I think it meant that you should take your time, or re-consider. No idea of the origin.

When dragging a comb through my cotted hair, “Pride feels no pain”. Still hurt, though

Oh gosh yes, 'You like the wreck of the Hesperus', alternated with 'You look as though you've crawled through a hedge backwards'.

Trying and failing to think of expressions my children would associate with me. They tell me I'm the only person who says Gosh (surely not?) so that will be one. ?

Oh my goodness, I remember most of them from childhood!

My dad had a saying that’s not been mentioned yet.
If a cats born in a stable is it a horse?

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You could see it all as she waved her wooden leg??
You look as though you've lost a pound and found a shilling.
Can't see the wood for the trees. All from my Dad.

Sure to quell any enjoyment of an unseasonable mild spell: “Green winter, full graveyard”.

If Mum got shocked about something, she would always say 'Great Scot'. Don't know why.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Switch off the light. More lights on in this house than Blackpool illuminations.

Up the wooden hill. To mean upstairs.

Be nice to your sisters and they will be there for you when I'm gone.

Don't do wasjlhing on New Year's Day or you wash.a member of your family away. I don't believe.it but I never wash.on New Year's Day as I know it would have upset my Mum.

Don't worry about we hat you can't change, focus on what you can change.

One day you will be old.

“If wishes were horses beggars would ride” ...

When I asked what was for dinner my mum would say “bread and pullit, sit on the stairs and eat it”.
Still haven’t worked that one out.

We'll all go to hell in a handcart!

My granny would exclaim 'Hell's bells and buckets of blood' if she broke anything, very exciting for children!

She’s got a face only a mother could love!

If it was windy and her hair got blown about:”I feel like the wreck of the Hesperus” If I got the giggles “you’ll be crying next”! “You are a soppy date”! “Put the wood in the hole” = shut the door. When I went out in the rain “don’t get wet” . “Like a bundle of muck tied up ugly”. “Silly ha’porth” “that’ll wet your whistle”, when giving you a drink. and so many more ?

Who’s “she”, the cat’s mother?

Kipper kitchen and no knickers was my Mum's favourite, and even though she hardly ever swore I aren't repeat her other favourite..

“Oh - beg your parsnips!”

'Don't do that you'll give yourself away'

and on visiting anyone after knocking at the door

'We'll soon know the worst'

Nellys room behind the wallpaper, or Run off with a ××××× man, her favourite replys to Mum were are you.

“then you’ll be laughing on the other side of your face

“It’s looking a bit black over Bill’s mother’s”

hf59, my mother used to cite The Wreck of the Hesperus too.