Phrases your mother used

Cupcake1- we used to have that one replaced with-"a Blackpool donkey"?

Mum used to say ‘Blood and Sand’ as an expletive. Also ‘Knickerless girls shouldn’t climb trees’ (whenever she heard the name Nicholas).

If I asked where Dad was, she used to say he’d, ‘gone to see a man about a dog’.

Oh, at a parents'-teachers' meeting I automatically asked a child who said "she" of his mother who was sitting beside him, "And who is "she"?

He got the point and said, " I meant my mother" The mother was in a fit of giggles.

"She" was reputed to be our cat's aunt when I was little

There are some much-needed lovely laughs here thank you all..

''What's a big girl like you ( all of 2 ) doing crying over a little thing like that''.... said with the greatest concern by my father. Still makes me stop showing any feelings at over 80
Heard from my Staffordshire grandmother only once ( it was so rude!) of a pompous and loud woman. 'She's just a fart in a colander.'
From my Yorkshire grandmother when I bought myself a new dress' Blue and green not fit to be seen, except on the head of an Irish queen'
From the same woman who always bought size 3 shoes when her true ? size was 4.5 '' Pride must abide'' She would stuff the new shoes with freshly scrubbed, damp potatoes, to stretch them. maybe over several days
From my mother ' Queen Anne front, Mary Anne behind' of someone with pretentions
When I complained of what my younger brother had done, my mother would say,' It's always you who makes the bullets for him to shoot''

....and from a grandfather 'show me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are''

Nannan2 ??! Those were the days !

“If you two don’t stop bickering I’ll bang your heads together.

If my three sisters and I were arguing, and would not settle down to sleep. my Mum would come into the bedroom and thump us through the bed clothes, (it did not hurt). My Mum would say, ' I'll thump you all, and I am sure to get the right one'.

Red hat, no drawers!

A blind man would be glad to see it.

If we asked what was for dinner - her reply, 'A run round the table'.

‘It’s looking black over Bill’s mother’s’- meaning it was about to rain.

Eyes like p holes in the snow , my mother's saying .

If someone was not very attractive , they had " an unfortunate face " .

merrellina you made me laugh my mother said the same thing too!

You're in and out like a fiddlers elbow.
When we questioned "Well what if?" she'd say, If pots and pans were if's and and's they'd be no money for tinkers.

Don’t come running to me if you break your leg

Shut your mouth and eat your food

Hard work never hurt anybody

Ne’er cast a clout ‘til May is out

She was hit with the ugly stick

That was quick, did you meet yourself on the way back?

Ask yer father

When disapproving of someone's new boyfriend mum would comment " Any port in a storm"!

My Nan used to threaten “I’ll smack your bottom til it bleeds buttermilk” but she never did!
And I’ll knock your block off.

My mother in law used to say “ I’m all behind, like a cow’s tail.”

As a teacher I used to say “ Oh my giddy aunt!”
I didn’t realise I said it until a parent told me her little boy said it when imitating me.

My mother quoted her mother in translation"I am not a bird, I cannot be in two places at one time". I have always loved the scatalogical certainty of the phrase.

February fill dyke. (lots of rain in February)

Hanging around for the next lot. (the odd little pile of snow that had been around for a week after 6 feet drifts had disappeared).

From Norfolk (load a squit). Sunny Susie

It’s not often I’m wrong but I’m right again
Tha can get wheer watter can’t
I won’t take much rocking tonight (if very tired)
You could ride bareback to London on that edge (if a knife was blunt)
You’re having nothing till I’ve had a fur coat
Well, if that was my dinner, I’ve had it (if not much food on the plate)
Bread an’ scrape (for dinner)
He’s no shop egg (of someone clever)
I’m going to put my foot down with a firm hand
So many, many sayings by my lovely parents. What a great thread.

He is not backward in coming forward
You look as though you have been pulled through a hedge backwards
You cannot go out looking like that.
We are not made of money in this house

My mum used to tell me that if I stuck a postage stamp upside down on an envelope, then I could be arrested, because it showed disrespect to the queen. I wonder how that fits nowadays, when you can buy a stamp with Delboy on it

Of messy hair, my dad would say your hair looks like you’ve been to bed in it.

You're not as green as your cabbage looking.

My mum had loads of unfathomable sayings;
'A wimwam for ducks to peak on' was often the reply to a 'what's that' type question, but sometimes she'd use it almost as a term of endearment like if we were worried about something and nothing, or being silly she'd say what are you, a wimwam for ducks?