Phrases your mother used

Whoops DGS of course. Don't know how I muddled the familiar letters up there.

"I'll bang your heads together, you two."

And the cause for any illness or problem "Talking too much". With our GDS with us a few days a week, I know what she meant. He doesn't stop from the minute he gets here.

My mother had a screed of them.

Sure a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn’t notice.

I’m going to run away with a soldier (if she was at the end of her tether).

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

There’s not a sinner on the street today.

You have my heart roasted.

I didn’t come down in the last shower.

I can hear them to this day.

There’s a lid for every pot (about those looking for love)
In and out like a bluearsed fly.
Backside like a bus horse.
Blue and green should never be seen without another colour between. (That’s a nuisance as even with a pile of washing, I have to put something between green and blue clothes etc.)

Mum would say, I could sit on that bottom lip, to my youngest sister when she threw a strop.
You're laughing now, you'll be crying in a minute.
If we were messing around when little, Mum would say, It'll all end in tears-and it usually did!
They can talk the hind leg off a donkey.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Such a good thread, bringing back lovely memories of my dear Mum.

Mum had a lot of the usual sayings

And if we wanted this that anything she would say

Well want will be your master.

Thought of a couple more, 'it' s as straight as a dog's hind leg' if something was wonky. Often used in regards to my attempts at hemming!
'Sing before breakfast, cry before night', I'm not sure if this was just superstition or to try and keep us quiet in the morning.

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?

You're not as green as your cabbage looking.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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'.