Things my parents said ...

"Its like wookie hole in here!" When the house was a mess.

Eat your carrots, they will make your hair curl.?

annrogers georgette was a material for making dresses a long time ago.A long, long time ago.?

A thin person looked like "a galloping hat pin". - mum
"A blind man on a galloping horse"... wouldn't notice something.

Youth is wasted on the young my late Mom used to say: I used to roll my eyes and think she was "mad"

Ofcourse now I am older I now understand what she meant. It is an only to be understood as we grow older saying. So I now use it too? yup ofcourse

I must have heard all of those. The most illogical one (and I have found myself saying it) when searching for something that Mum could see and I could not, "It would bite you if it had a tongue."!

I was told eating my crusts would make my hair curl, eating carrots helped me see in the dark!
What was it about how we looked? "Do I look alright?"- "you'll pass with a push (and a strong man behind you)

When wearing or doing something that wasn't up to standard my mum would say "a blind man would be pleased to see it"

Air pie and windy pudding when asked what's for dinner.

Dad's reply to,"It isn't fair"-"Dark girls never are"

When he was trying to teach me how to solve "Problems" in the 11+ exam, he would adopt their silly use of language to make me laugh-"If it takes a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples on a bunch of grapes??"

Mum despaired of my untidy appearance and would say, "You look like you've been pulled through a hedge backwards" or "Like the Wreck of the Hesperus"

My mum used to say that too!

Oh yes. I heard 'bread and pullet' when I asked what was for tea, 'what time do you call this?' if I was late home and 'like the wreck if the Hesperus' if I wasn't tidy. So many more, many that somehow have been absorbed by our children and now are repeated to our grandchildren.

My GS's reply when I quoted "If ifs and an's were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers"- What's a tinker?" Says it all really!

As we waved good bye from the car my dad used to shout"keep your head in people will think its a cattle truck"

Whenever I laughed as a child my Grandmother would always say "if you laugh today, you'll cry tomorrow"! What an awful think to instil in a child. I still say it to myself now.

My mum would say "Your head will never save your legs". I was mystified for years but I get it now. I come down or go up stairs without something and have to make I return journey for the forgotten thing. If my head had worked it would have saved my legs :-) Happy memory

When I was little. we were threatened with the 'copper stick' if we misbehaved. This was a thick stick about 18 inches long, that my mother used to push down the whites that were boiling away on the stove. As we got older, we used to mercilessly mock her with the words ' I'll get the copper stick!' and in later years, when my children were young, if they were playing me up, I remember my mother saying to me 'I'll bring the copper stick over!' This made such a lasting impression and has recently become a revisited shared joke with my DD1 as her son is just entering terrible twos territory.

Don't sit with your back to the fire, you'll melt the marrow in your back bone, said my Mum,

If I said I was bored my mum said "I wish I had time to be bored".
If I was hungry but refused an apple she'd say "Well your not hungry then"
She'd also say "Wait till your father gets home" if I was playing up. She never did tell him however!

"If you're going to have one, have a big one." Said by my mum on any number of occasions! Still used now by me and daughter

Dad used to describe impending rain by saying "it's a bit black over Bill's mother's ".
I always thought he knew someone called Bill whose mother lived in the next village. I was about 30 before I caught on .

Whenever Liberace appeared on tv my dad would say "chase me boys, I'm full of babies." I'm still baffled

What did your last servant die of?

'Pride comes before a fall',
'A blind man would be glad to see it'
'Don't care was made to care'
and so many more.

I was always climbing our old apple tree. "If you fall out and break your leg don't come running to me."

'You will be smiling the other side of your face in a minute'!!!