Things your mother said!

Like everyone else I've had great fun hearing my Mum and Dads' voices all along this thread, sometimes with little variations.
'What's for dinner?" Stewed stool feet and buttered haycocks.
'What's that?" A whim-wham for ducks to peek on.
"Where are you/we going?" Up to West Park to see if its raining.
'Where's Mum?' Run off with a black man
Don't look so morky/mawky if we were sulking.
More haste, less speed if we were rushing about, usually trying to finish something quickly.

When Mum was annoyed with us, 'You give me the pip you really do!'
Mum would go to the back door step and look East and say, 'It'll rain afore morning 'cos it's as black as Dick's hat band ovver't Swillin'.

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
Tell in to the Marines, if she thought we were being untruthful.
About gossip. It's all my eye on Betty Martin (whoever that was)

My Dad's weird saying if we were naughty, 'If you don't behave I'll chop off yer feet, sharpen yer legs and bray you into the ground like a tin tack.'
'Bray' is a Yorkshire word for strike or hit). 'I got brayed by me Dad for lossin' me bike.'
If we dropped anything, Dad would say, 'Bring it 'ere an' I'll pick it up.'
Mum hated unexpected visitors who put her self-imposed schedule out. She'd be as nice as pie while they were there but when they'd gone, she'd say, 'Eeee they reight hinder me and now I'm fair moidered and all behind like a fat woman's backside.'
Also, 'Eee, I'm moidered to death now.' as she rushed to catch up on the work.

We had a motorbike and sidecar when I was young and if we went over rough, bumpy ground, Mum would say, 'It's enough to shake yer liver pin out.'

'D'you think I came down in't last shower?' if we tried to put one over on her.

Many years ago I invented a saying to amuse my children, or thought I did, but I have since read it was used long before I 'made it up'.

When it was a meal time and I wanted them to put their toys away, 'Come on now, pack up your parrots and monkeys.' Or a reminder to look around if we were leaving somewhere, to make sure they had all their belongings, 'Have you got all your parrots and monkeys?'
I swear I'd never heard it before, or since but I once Googled it and discovered it wasn't my original at all

'You look as if you've lost a bob and found a penny' if we were sad.
'Yer a barm pot' or 'You're as daft as a chocolate frog.'
if we were being silly.

Not my (Irish) Ma, but I recently read a book where one of the main characters quoted her Irish mother: "Well that's a pint of ridiculous". I think I may use that in the future.

So many familiar sayings.

Did anyone else ever look like something the cat's dragged in? For a long time I thought it was some sort of container you put a cat in and dragged it around!!!

I was also as 'dim as a 'Toc H' lamp. I had no idea and imagined it as spelt 'tockaitch'. Many years later I googled it and found out that Toc H was a Christian organisation that helped soldiers and had an aladdin type lamp as a symbol.

I was frequently asked if I was born in a barn, if the door was left open and if I cheekily replied she should know she was the one who had me, I was threatened with the back of her hand. Actually she always hit me with the palm of the hand so what was that all about?

I also got the same response when she said 'Don't walk on the floor. I've just cleaned it.' I would reply, 'So what am I supposed to do? Fly?' I never learned to keep quiet. I should have tried to laugh on the other side of my face!

I googled 'midden' too as apparently we lived in one. Yes a dung hill or refuse heap.

I wonder what sayings our DC or DGC will remember. I'm sure they won't be as colourful!

My mum, 14 yr old school leaver , my dad a barrister. he was however not a very practical man.. unlike mum who exasperated once shouted, " I really don't know how you got so far!" Which my siblings and I now use when someone fails to sort out a simple practical problem.

She also used to say, "Whistle louder, it'll jump out at you!" when any of us could not find something!

Omg!! Casey court! Took me right back! What was that about?

Also ‘no better than she should be with her fancy man’ my Nan talking about her neighbour

‘She got into trouble’ as my loveky mil did aged 17 in 1959! Was taken by her mum to the local chemist for ‘medicine’ that was supposed to induce a miscarriage., it didn’t work!

‘You look like a chorus girl’ as I tried to sneak out with loads of makeup on circa 1978! The thing was I had no idea what a chorus girl was but she sounded like I wanted to look.

Looking for something in the house----" if it had horns it would poke you " would come the voice of my mother.

You'll catch your death....
God pays the wicked...
The bigger they come, the harder they fall...
During the war...
You don't know you're born!...
You can't go to bed with wet hair...
rest in peace mum & dad

As black as Newgit's knocker.
Its like Wookie Hole in here!

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

We had Stage-a-bank (sp?) Fair at ours.

Suzyb, it was always " Casey's Court " in our house if there was a to do.

So many shared sayings. My great Nan who was about 90 when I was 5 used to say ‘perish me handson’ I think it referred to some type of carriage from Victorian days!

My mum wasn’t allowed to wash her hair during a period as she would ‘wash out all her strength’

Where are you going mum ? " There and back to see how far it is ".

‘A real Fred Karno’s ‘ when things were chaotic.

"You expect a grunt from a pig" - when someone is very rude,

And the inevitable - "before the war ..............!"

My mum used to say ‘when poverty comes in through the front door love goes out from the back’ when I was lovesick over some poor cap.

If I went out on a cold day inappropriately dressed in my mother's eyes I would "catch my death of cold". Whatever it was I was relatively unscathed.

How did so many of us get through it all and still be reasonably normal?

My mother used to say ‘when poverty comes in from the front door love goes out through the back’ when I was lovesick over some poor chap

My sister and I were not allowed to wash our hair when we had our periods. "It will send you mad". ???????? Even my cousins laugh at that one.

Granless, at least you had " some advice ". All I got was " you're a young woman now ". I was 13 too. Then I had to stay put in bed while she went to the chemist, with school in the afternoon and an explanation to the teacher.

I always thought having one on the side was strange thing to say

Having started my ‘periods’ at age 13 (1961) my mother said to me ‘now don’t go near any boys’! That was the sum total of her advice re the birds and the bees!. Bless.

My DH says his mother used to say you shouldn't sit on anything cold or you would get 'the pip'. He never dared asked what the pip was!
I remember 'It's raining in Paris' when my petticoat was showing and 'Do you think I came down with the last shower' when we tried to 'pull the wool over her eyes.'

When our meal was too hot to eat, and we complained, mum would say “You’d be hot if you’d just come out of the oven.”

One my mum would say if She was sat down and had jobs waiting was
'Well, this won't get the baby a new hat' meaning she really should get on.