A pint of wallop! (Just for fun).

'You make a better door than a window' said by my Mum if you were blocking her view!

'What's for dinner?' 'Bread and pull it.'
I guess that was pullet but as I didn't know what a pullet was it was an irritating answer.

My Dad would shout out, "I'm just going to hold my own," as he disappeared into a gents toilet when we were out and about.
My poor Mum used to cringe ?

“Its cold enough for a walking stick”. Icy weather
“You are talking round shouldered”. Talking rubbish
“An Elegant sufficiency” Enough
“Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire”. Upstairs to bed
“Stop moidering”. Pestering

All used regularly when I was a child

"An elegant sufficiency" is a phrase I learned as a child - but definitely not at home!

If our parents were asked” where are you going “ and they didn’t want to tell us their answer was “ to see a man about a dog”

If we asked what was for dinner my Dad always said ‘A run round the table and a kick at the cat’.
I have no idea why, and he loves cats.

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When my children were young they mostly left doors open.
i would tell them to "to put the wood in the hole ". which my parents and my grandad thought was hilarious.

“Put wood in t’ole “. you mean,
Or to the dog in front of the fire “who pays for t’ coal?”

‘Put the wood in the hole’ and ‘Up the wooden hill’ were both used in our family.

A family-joke one, because an elderly relative used to say it, was saying you’d had ‘an elegant sufficiency’ to mean you were full, didn’t want seconds.

My father had some ‘quaint’ turns of phrase - my favourite was probably him saying, ‘I am going to commune with my soul’ when he was off for a lengthy ‘sit’ on the loo with the paper.

When my children were young they mostly left doors open.
i would tell them to "to put the wood in the hole ". which my parents and my grandad thought was hilarious.

I can remember my maternal Gran saying up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire as she took me upstairs to bed.

My Dad called it ‘jollop’.