Mums sayings.

Oh yes, that classic Motherly saying.
" Put that down, you will have someones eye out in a minute " !!!!!!!!!!!

If any of us played our Mum up as children, as all kids do, our Mum used to say:
"That's it ! I am going to call the Policeman". ( The one who used to walk the beat where we lived )
Always worked.?

"As black as yer 'at!"

seacliffwe always got "It's six of one and half a dozen of the other" when we tried to blame each other for the arguments.
When she was getting ready to go out "I'll pass with a push and a strong wind behind me"
Sing before breakfast, cry before supper" - I suspect this one was invented by my gran to keep us quiet in a morning.

We had 'Charlie's dead' on the south coast too - with the reply 'So would you be if you were hanging!'

I remember "Charlie's dead" as well. My mum and her family were from London
My daughter and I still try and keep up with the sayings we were bought up with. It'd be a shame for them to die out.

When anyone showed my Granny a new item of clothing, she would say "it's lovely, I wish you health to wear it". I still like that one
One which to this day I've not forgiven her for was, "if you laugh today you'll cry tomorrow". I didn't have much to laugh about as a child but that awful saying of hers put a stop to it altogether.

Pensionpat --- I remember Charlies Dead too. I tell people at work about it and get blank looks all round. Maybe it was just a London thing.

Pound head & halfpenny feet: look after the pennies the pounds will look after themselves: stop making faces the wind will change & you will stay like that forever: faint heart never made a fine lady: eat up your food there are children in Africa starving, I always felt like saying (but didn't dare) send it to them then lol

you're old enough to know better .... when my annoying brother and I were fighting ...(he started it!!)

never in a month of Sundays

once in a blue moon

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Confusion over Star Wars Characters which she referred to as Archie Deetwo and Daft Ha'peth

Being regional, I have only heard about half of the expressions used [on here] but one I remember from Grandfather, on somebody being bandy legged [you don't see that now either] was 'he couldn't stop a pig in a passage!'

My mother use to say to us if we found something amusing, which she didn't find funny:" You will be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute!"

when you think about it, a lot of parents were saying unpleasant stuff, some of it just quaint and now and then funny or a bit odd.
I don't think that I ever used any of those expressions from 'yesteryear' with our own DC or DGC except for 'wait and see' and 'I'll think about it.'
times change, and expressions die out, or do you still use them?

If I pointed out a small mark on something I was wearing mum would say "Come on, a blind man would be glad to see that!"
I used to say to my daughter: "Mummy always wins, because Mummy is bigger!" No arguing with that, is there?

She's got a face you could chop wood on, Thanks DEE for this, still chuckling!

Oh so many memories thank you.
She looks as though she'd eat her own children - not a compliment but saved a thousand words
She looks as though she's been poured in red hot and allowed to cool about someone in very tight clothing.
There'll be tears before bedtime - if we were playing really noisily.
I'll bang your two heads together til sparks fly - if my brother and I were quarrelling

Stop climbing that fence/tree/wall or whatever it was ,if you fall and break your neck dinna come running to me.

My mum had hundreds all said in a wry broad Oldham accent..........
She's got a face you could chop wood on.
You could leave him on't doorstep all night and nobody 'd run off wi him.
Anybody can stoop down and pick nowt up.
He could peel an orange in his pocket (being miserly)
A full belly can't feel for an empty one.
Were you born wi rag hands? (when you are expecting someone else to get something for you)
Anybody can work for nowt and tea there own dinner.

If the place was untidy - "it looks like wooky hole in here!"
If something was dirty "as black as newgits knocker!"

"All my eye and Betty Martin." Think my gran meant someone was making something up. Odd that one, isn't it?
If someone wasn't looking well, she'd say "eeeh he's looks as queer as Dick's hatband". Makes me laugh thinking back ?