Mums sayings.

'I'll think about it '

'Share and share alike' - when Dsister had eaten all her sweets and wanted some of mine. The injustice of it!.

'Two wrongs don't make a right'
'Little birds in the nest must agree'
My sister and I used to fight a lot.

When my mother told my brother and me off for being thoughtless, all she did was make us smile because she would say 'It is lack of inconsideration'
One of her expressions which I have continued is 'Do as you would be done by'

Not the usual ones, but my mother had a couple which have gone down in the annals - we still say them for a laugh.

'HMm, not OVER-keen' - when you realised there was yet another thing she didn't really like, since she was picking every bit of it out of her food.

'That HAIR!'
Invariably about anyone on TV with a mass of long, very curly or frizzy hair all round their face. Like Rebekah Whatshername at the time of the phone hacking scandal.

"Because I said so" - it drove me mad as a child and I have never said it to any of mine!

Neither a borrower or a lender be.

If if's and ands were pots and pans never a tinker there would be.

Many wells make a river, you jump in and make it bigger.

There was a little girl who had a little girl right in the middle of her forehead, when she was good she was very good, when she was bad she was horrid.

I also remember a phase of being scared of ghosts and mum said to me.... never be scared of the dead, its the ones that are alive you need to be wary of.

I think the little girl had a little 'curl' right in the middle of her forehead, saak!

I think you may be right Ana

I remember my daughter saying " I will never say the the things to my children that you said to me, then I heard the words coming out of my mouth "
What goes around comes around .

Stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about.

at KatyK.

Fur coat, no knickers!
more ....
she can talk the hind legs off a donkey

if I asked too many questions my Granny said "As Asquith said.. Wait and see"

Someone who wore lots of jewellery - "she thinks she's Lady Docker".

I did actually google these people in recent years and now understand the statements.

My father-in-law used to describe some people as 'thick as pudding' and 'no better than she ought to be' whatever that meant

All "fur coat and no knickers" is still one of my favourite sayings.

and 'she's all kippers and curtains'

KatyK Stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about was one of my mother's favourites along with no better than she ought to be, which was extended to '... and a lot worse than she should be'.

There was also 'Red hat, no drawers' (of the underwear variety) and 'Here's my tits, my arse is following', of someone who stuck her chest out as she walked

'Your fat and lazy and I'm going to have you put in a home I never wanted you anyway'.

I think that was on one of her good days.

Oh just remembered another one - 'crying on the other side of your face'. What on earth was that about?

Swanny A lot of the ones I remember were from my friends' mums in Birmingham. My mum was Irish and had some very different ones! I worked with a girl who was described by some of the office workers as 'here's me head, me arse is coming'

Teetime

My mother, a health visitor ,used to say when you had a new baby. " Do not worry about dirty old men worry about lovely clean children harbouring bugs " We learnt that lesson to our cost when DD got chickenpox at 9 months old .

That made me think of another one Teetime 'Say that again and I'll wash your mouth out with soap' I did - and she did, with that green block stuff