Phrases your mother used

You may have a bone in it ' said if I had a pain in arms or legs.
' You are sure to die after it' if you felt ill. Both worried me as a young child.

There is enough blue sky to make a sailors suit it’s going to be a sunny day

In my teens I used to fasten my belts as tight as I could get them, my grandma said I was tied up like a rice bun. I never did see a rice bun!

I remember when I started experimenting with make up, and my Mum said my eyes looked like 'p((sholes in the snow'. Disgusted me then, disgusts me now!

All fur coat and no knickers, my grandma`s way of describing someone who thought they were better than us.

Marydoll ditto 're coming up the Clyde.

And whenever times were a bit difficult......
I can picture her now, hands on hips ' we will be fine, just remember we are Clyde built'.



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This will probably get censored here but

No man wants second hand goods to marry

Have you got a clean hankie?

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

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!

Never cast a clout till May is out

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

Same meaning as above.

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

Mind the roads.

"Do you want a smack?"

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

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

Good things come in little packages

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

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

All behind like a cow’s tail.

All round the pig market.

Come on, slow coach!

What did your last servant die of?

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

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 ?

'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'.

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!

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