Things my parents said ...

If asked where she was going: "round the corner and up Jack's arse"

Very cold = Chilly bon bons.

Never heard anyone else say it.

If that's what you think, you have another think coming!

Late MiL used to describe someone who she considered a bit of a tart as "all fur coat and no knickers!

My grandad ( of my grandma singing)

Your voice is like the sound of a cow farting through a small tooth comb .

My granny used to say 'Up the wooden hill to bed' (going up the stairs to bed). And eating my crusts would give me curls.

My mother used to say (about gossip) 'If it's nice say it, if it's not don't'. When I asked her about this shortly before she died, she said her headmistress said it to them. Now I think that is a good rule to live by!

My dad used to say 'Hands, Knees and Bumpsidaysees' in a German accent, which I found out recently was from Max Bygraves.

What I would give to hear one of them again.

My parents never ever swore but I did hear the blue arsed fly comment d=from another member of the family.

Pride must abide was one of my dad's sayings

Someone with eye problems had "one eye and a whelk" (pronounced whilk)

As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat

Well, I'll go to the bottom of our stairs.

Neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring

Ye gods!

I now find myself exclaiming "Good God!" with exactly the same intonation and look as my father.

My Nans saying when we were swooning over someone good looking - "ever seen my arse on a windy night?"

Charleygirl my father was always going to see a man about a dog and we're welsh, so these things do travel. He was also fond of saying if you want to get ahead get a hat!!!!! Oh yes we had the blue-arsed fly too and if something was dirty it was blacker than the hobs of hell.

You would laugh if your a**e caught alight
Someone limping had one leg and a flapper
When asked if she had a match her reply "your face my a**e
Wash your hands face and ha'penny..
have a cats lick and a promise....
Keep your 'and on yer ha'penny...

My squints as a child was having one eye on the pot and t'other up the chimney
and as I was rather rotund as a child she had one arm round me and twice round the gasworks

these are making me grin and feel happily nostalgic

Or happy as a pig in s**t...
two helpin's of sheeps cock and pullet..
A face only a mother could love....
Smile on the other side of your face...
Here there and back again to see how far it is ....
Some one who smirked a lot was a grinny s**t a**e
Someone was 'apenny short of a shillin'..if a bit slow
My brother and I always remember the words she used ....most of her sayings where unprintable

If we were wailing we'd be told, "I'll give you something to cry about."
When my sister and I were going through a giggly stage as teenagers she'd say, "You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl!"

How about "like a blue arsed fly"? I love some of these sayings.

You will meet yourself going backwards was one of my mother's expressions.
You look like a pig or a dog's breakfast
He/she looked like death warmed up if not feeling well.
Your feet will not touch the ground because you will not know what has hit you.
My dad also used to go and see a man about a dog. I think that is a Scottish expression.
Only floozies go out dressed like that.
Eye makeup, wearing white shoes and/or mini skirts was "common".

Newgits knocker is something we used to say MissA it refers to the heavy black knocker on the door of Newgate prison

Jollyg life's too short not to have a bit of fun and lightheartedness now and again. There are times when we all need cheering up a bit, especially so if going through difficult times.

Black as newgates knocker was pronounced "Newgits" by my mum.

If we pulled a face when in a mood or crying my mum would say,' your face looks like a cat's bum turned inside out!!! lol

If we asked what was for dinner it was always 'if i've got it, you can have it, if i haven't then you can't!!!

Another was 'it's as black as newgate's knocker over there' if the sky was really dark before a storm or heavy rainfall.

I often wonder now i am older where these strange sayings came from, there are so many different ones.

"Beauty has its price!" when I was complaining about my hair being brushed.

The old 'Sticks and stones' rhyme. (Not true of course!)

AND the infamous ' Wait 'til your father gets home!' Which did actually strike a bit of fear ...poor dad!

My mum used to say "they buried him with ham", meaning a good send off at a funeral. For years when I was young I had visions of people being buried with a leg of pork. She also used to say "well I'll go to Holland on a cart" when something surprised her, never understood that one. "Blow your nose and dust your brain" and "It's dark over Wills mothers", I had a friend called William and thought it would be raining at his house So many of the others bring back happy memories of childhood.

Upon seeing an unattractively turned out person my Mum would say "Och! The sights ye see when ye haven't a gun. "(....in her Scottish accent.)

Made me smile, your mums sayings, morethan. I've had to leave out some of the less savoury sayings my mum had.