Phrases your mother used

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride?

"there'll be tears before bedtime" was one of my mothers favourites. No doubt we were being noisy and having fun.

My mother used to say "never love for money, but only love where money is"

Upon doing something she thought dangerous.. Eg walking along our garden wall...

‘If you fall down and break your legs, don’t coming running to me for help!’ Huh?!

Another was... ‘Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs..’ More confusion

When we came in from the cold "take your coat off, or you won't feel the benefit" As a child I had no idea what she meant! Now I say it to my grandchildren... just to keep the tradition alive!! (when I see them that is!)

Mother and Grandma used to refer to a person ‘ they are as mad as Dick’s hatband’! No idea who Dick was, Grandma was born near Worksop. Always wondered who Dick was!!

That's only two things certain in life … death and taxes

Not my mother but my father, of someone rather plain, "she has a face like the north end of a south bound cow". All I remember of mother's have been quoted.

Cor blimey O’Reilly!

You’re not hungry, you’re greedy

SisterAct My mum used to say " good things come in small packages" " and so does poison, choose carefully"

Also "the best thing since sliced bread - but even that goes mouldy"

I don't know if she was wise or a pessimist :-) but bless her she had some saying that didn't make much sense when I was a child but they do now.

Lots of these, and one I caught myself saying in exasperation to my 6' 2", 30 year old son yesterday - "do you want a smack?" Ooh, yes please! NOT!
I'd have to stand on a stool to give him a thick ear!

My kids remind me that when they were having a strop about something ridiculous I would tell them to stop crying or I would give them something to cry about. It always worked, they knew I stuck to my word! They have both ended up as delightful men happily married with families of their own and not too emotionally scarred!

Anticipating whether or not we would have fine weather in summer by looking at the leaves of the trees in spring:

'If the oak before the ash
Then we'll only have a splash.
If the ash before the oak
Then we're going to have a soak....'

A stitch in time saves nine
Wait till your father comes home
Wash your mouth out with soap
She has a face like the back of a bus

“Suffer a wee and be hardy”. Meaning suffer a little bit and be stoical or resilient. Very much part of the Scottish character.

My lovely Mum used to have many sayings,
"It's only the difference" meaning try to buy or do the best you can as well as "Don't spoil the ship for a hap'worth of tar"
"This to shall pass" - often a great comfort to me, especially in these times, I can hear her lovely calm voice.
"Sleep makes sleep" - don't let babies and small children get overtired

"Be careful what you wish for"
"Calm seas never made a good sailor"
"I can't see it for looking" (when she'd lost something)
"You'll catch your death of cold" (when I went out wearing a mini skirt)

It's hung up on t'dog shelf, ie it's on the floor.

If you were standing in front of the TV my Dad would say Were you born in St Helens? (St Helens, the home of Pilkington glass).

A blind man on a galloping horse would be glad to see it.
Said after doing a job that doesn’t seem to be finished as well as you would like.

I wasn`t born yesterday you know.
errrrrrrm.

English was not my mother's first language, so it was Daddy and Grannie (his mother) who told us that our faces would get stuck if the wind changed, asked why our coats were on the highest peg in the house (the floor) and told us to stop looking at people with our eyes standing out like chapel hat pegs, if we were staring.

"Ye'll catch your death of cauld if ye gae oot dressed like that!" was another one from the same source.

Anyone else remember, "Ca' you come in oot a' there ye bold, unbiddable child?"

Bigred18

"I didn't come over on the boat yesterday" We lived in liverpool and think she was referring to the Irish! Apologies!

Further inland, I didn't come up the ship canal on a tea tray'

I suppose many of these are homely proverbs now forgotten, which is a pity.
Off the top of my head:
'Frame'
'Were you born in a born'
'All dressed up and nowhere to go' [never understood that one]

When asked what’s for food she’d say”bees knees and chickens elbows”
If she was surprised or shocked at something she’d say “well I go to the foot of our stairs”
Just what she would do when she got to the foot of our stairs I never ever found out and didn’t think at the time to ask ??‍♀️