Phrases your mother used

My mum and grandma both used to say
I’m off to’t sports
When they were feeling ill and thought they might die. I had a fantasy that this was some ages old pagan thing but they were both Methodists.

As a child if I asked what we were going to have for dinner she said, ' a slice of a cat and a rosy rat'. No wonder I've been vegetarian most of my adult life! She also used to say' regret is the cancer of living'. Lots of others I've never heard generally used but may have been common to the area I grew up in ( Fermanagh). She always described a troublemaker as someone who could ' raise mutiny in hell'.

Oh, and to describe someone with a large posterior, ' a backside on her like Curley Wilson's gig'.

Sloegin, Feet like Lurgan Spades was another one,used to describe a man with very big feet!

Describing people doing something stupid, she’d say, “They’d follow a dustcart and think it was a wedding!”

If we used to say something wasn't fair my Mum would say "Well life's not fair" we actually had a chuckle about that the other day on a family zoom . I say it now as a joke !

I am not as green as I am cabbage looking
I have eyes in the back of my head
Are you asking for a smack?
You will be laughing on the other side of your face
She has ideas well above her station
She looks as though she has been pulled through a hedge backwards
Money does not grow on trees
I was forced to eat everything put in front of me and was told there are children starving in Africa. My reply was well post it to them.
sex education- we found you under a bush.
You will sit there and finish that (food) until the cows come home.
It will take you a month of Sundays to complete that simple task.

Tiss a blessing god has geen (given),
Mucky watter washes clean.

Her dad was a miner and miners knew all about 'mucky watter' and wanting to wash off caked-on coal dust. 'Mucky watter' was better than no 'watter'.

Charleygirl, it was usually a gooseberry bush for some reason. Or a stork.

B9exchange

My mum used to say, "If you can't take the time to do it right, you can take the time to do it over".

I used to work with two older ladies and theirs were
I've been up and down like a dogs hind leg
Another day older and deeper in dept.
Another day older and nearer my grave
Married for (number) you only get 10 years for murder
Don't mind me I'm just a pleb
A monkey could do my job going by what I'm paid

Llamedos13
Not one my mother used but often heard it in Belfast.

“Up and down like a Weston donkey “ Somerset saying as donkeys used to walk up and down the beach giving children rides- for a price of course!

It was being sent to Siberia if I didn’t behave....yes I know it’s unusual and would be a comfort to find someone also terrified by the idea of being stuck in Siberia. ... but think it might just be me..... and the snow....and the wolves.....

My grandma bought up 9 children and to try and keep the place tidy used to say "Don't put it down - put it away!"

If I told my mum I was bored she would say "I wish I had time to be bored."

My mother used to say “I’m not as green as I’m cabbage looking”!!! WHAT ON EARTH DID THAT MEAN! She also used to say “It’s black over Bill’s Mothers........... (we never did know who Bill was).

Ooooo rozina. Are you from Norfolk? My mum used both of those.

Also 'Here it isn't.' when waiting for a bus.

If you didn’t shut the door behind you she’d shout
“Were you born in a barn? Put the wood in the hole!!”

My lovely MiL, finding a knife she was using was blunt would say 'It is so blunt, I could fly bare-arsed round the moon on it'

She had a fund of these sayings, most of which I can only remember when reminded. Someone who talked a lot had ' gob like a 40s iron pot. And one DH uses, but I am sure came from his mother 'His/her get up and go, got up and went'.

There are no pockets in shrouds. In other words, spend your money when you can.

Well, who’s a Bobby dazzler. A compliment when you look nice

This won’t get the baby a new bonnet! Loved that phrase.

My Mum. You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face!

' still waters run deep' i think is more or less same meaning as 'they are a dark horse' meaning there's more to that person than they let on.or still water belying what's going on underneath the water!

My mam, and gran as well, had so many 'speaks' to mention..but now i hear myself repeating them, so some of it must have sunk in.(i also hear my DD's repeating a few now, but haven't mentioned that)?