Things your mother said!

A couple more
chewing gum chewing gum lead me to my grave . My mother told me not to chew it but I disobeyed .
If you eat too much sugar you will get heat spots.
If you take too much butter you will be sick .
My aunt's favourite.
You'll eat a peck of dirt before you die " and she lived by that mantra .
Glasgow way they say " Do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat ?

‘She’ is the cat’s mother.
If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
You’ll be laughing on the side of your face in a minute.
If you don’t shut up I’ll give you something to cry for.
My all time favourite ‘If you don’t stop that I’ll give you what for’. I’d reply ‘what’s what for?’ Mum’s response ‘I’ll show you what for, my girl’ with a clip around the ear.

Brings back so many memories. It was my Dad in my case a very wise man, So kind and generous he was a stickler for respect and manners. He always said never forget to say 'thank you' it costs nothing but can gain you a lot. Same as shysal ' if you can't say anything nice say nothing at all.'

He never passed a baby in a pram without putting silver in the baby's palm (he'd probably get locked up now!)

Oh I’m loving these. So many are familiar. A few others :-

If grandad spotted one of us picking our nose ‘let me know when you get to the piano’

When asked what’s for dinner, mum would say ‘bread and scratch it’

When we grumbled we were bored as children ‘I wish I had time to be bored’ or ‘come here, I’ll find you something to do’

‘You’ll be laughing the other side of your face in a minute’

‘If you don’t eat that, you’ll sit there until you do’ (a threat she used to carry out and make me sit at the table for hours)

Who’s ‘she’? The cat’s Mother?

Mom would say you is that ringing on the phone before you pick it up how do I know. My hubby still ask the same question. Mind reader comes to hand.

Laughter turns to tears

My mum and nan used to say all of the above, they all brought back memories of growing up. My mans favourite was “she’s no better than she ought to be” and “don’t ever get old”! As if there is any choice

And didn’t we all get smacked a lot? On our legs. Mean mummies!

The saying bring back so many memories. When we asked whats for tea it was always fresh air sandwiches

My Mum used to say, “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear, and cut your coat according to your cloth”.

" It'll either rain or go dark before morning " was mum's answer to our next door gardening neighbour.
"It's too cold to snow"---another one.

If I was sitting with a sulky face mum would say " you'll stick like that ".

" Have you been to the toilet today "-----before the syrup of figs appeared.Yuk.

" You're being peevish today "-----Steedman's-EE powders at the ready.Double Yuk.

Heat spots----Sulphur powder and treacle down the hatch and calamine lotion all over my body.

It's a miracle I didn't explode.
I can relate to many of the posts

What's for tea mum ? " bread'n herring " was the answer.
What are you knitting mum ? " crutches for lame ducks " came the answer----if it was baby clothes for someone in trouble ( I learned later )
Plenty of Cissie and Ada moments to stop us kids from knowing anything.

I can’t believe, I have just read through all 4 pages of this thread, memories just came flying back from grandmother, then mother. I think they must have all gone to same school as everyone else’s, they have said the exact same words, but it’s a tradition I never carried on with my children. They sure would look at me as having dementia, I think

What’s for tea? Neck of nothing and no turnips.

Horse play always ends in tears

I know the title of this thread is things your mother said but please forgive me if I add in a couple of things that two different vicars said, which have stuck in my mind.
....Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies
.... She'll have been in heaven half an hour before the devil knows she's dead.
They might just become "things granny used to say"!

Stop unpacking your trunk. ..... picking your nose.

SiL has added a new one to our family
What's for dinner ?
Ifits..........if it's in the freezer you can have it.

My mum used to say if you dont stop screaming i will nail your foot to the floor.Dont come crying to me if you fall and break your neck.I used to say to mine go play on the M1 which use to horrify my mother in law

Ment to say she said other foot to the floor.Also use to say chop you up and use you for firewood.

Ha-ha, I think some of us must have had the same mother! Lots of these said by mine, the variation on nose-picking being 'are you staying long?" and when we asked why she would say "because you're unpacking your trunk'. Also, because I ONCE forgot to put my knickers on before going to school, she then took to hollering down our long front garden path each morning as I went to school ' have you got your pants on"!!!

Take your coat off, otherwise you'll never feel the benefit.

I know what ‘thought done’, he thought he had, but he hadnt, then he did. Usually meaning poo.

Most of the old sayings I know come from MIL, as dh left the house, MIL would shout down the street ‘have you got your handkerchief?, very embarrassing.

There’s black clouds over Will’s mother’s.

What’s for tea? Bread and pullit.

Don’t wear patent leather shoes, people will see your knickers reflected.

My mother always referred to a derelict house as Katy Cantrips House.

It hurts to be beautiful.

There are many more that I will think of as soon as I post.

We use old sayings a lot just for fun, and I think it’s good to keep these things alive.

So many of these sayings are familiar to me too. However a couple of posts have reminded me that (1) (re starving African children) my SiL insists that his children finish the meat on their plates because "an animal died so that you could eat." and (2) (re butter making you sick) that's exactly what I did as a 3-year old and I have never eaten butter or margarine since. The thought of eating it still makes me retch almost 70 years later.

'Whats for dinner' was usually answered with '2 jumps at the cupboard door and a bite at the latch' ????
'There and back to see how far it is' and 'Hes never backwards at coming forwards' are just a couple I remember.

'Don't look at me in that tone of voice', which I fully understood when I had teenagers;
'it's a whim-wham for a mustard mill';to describe a mysterious present
'red hat/shoes: no knickers'; I bought my first pair of red shoes two years ago.