Parents say the oddest things.

RachRubyD

My mum has loads of odd sayings but can't remember half of them. I say them sometimes to people and they like what?

My great grandmother was famous for her sayings such as

'When I get my hands on you, 10 doctors won't dress you' Meaning I beat you that bad 10 doctors couldn't mend you.

'Just as easy to love a rich man as it a poor man'

My mum also says Blackpool Illuminations lol and
Bobs your uncle, Fans your aunt.

Frith

My grandma also used the "ran away with a black man" expression. Perhaps its a black country saying?

And "I'll go to the foot of our stairs".

I used the word "gormless" on another forum the other day and hardly anyone understood what it meant!

BitterAndTwisted

My father was very fond of dreadful puns. Like: Shampoo? Don't mess me about with that stuff, give me the real poo. What's this? Bean soup? I don't care what it's been, what is it now? And a million other old groaners which we heard so very many times. Plus, a slightly non PC one: when we complained that something wasn't fair his retort was always "And neither is a darky's bum!". There's just no arguing with that one.

stiltwalker

madget wrote: »

My mum called water "Adam's ale".

If we had a coughing fit, we were instructed to, "Cough it up, it might be a bus." (I have no idea what on earth it means!
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Water was corporation pop according to my Dad.

And it was 'cough it up, it might be a gold ring' and I say this to my little man now when he is doing his extravagant attention seeking big coughs (and yes, most of them are put on!)

jellyhead wrote: »

Some of my nan's saying weren't very PC either. She must have got them from her childhood and carried on saying them. I hated it when I asked where my mother was and got the reply that she'd 'ran away with a black man' every time. Why? It was never funny!

What does 'who's she, the cat's mother? mean, anyone?

When my parents were doing the financial planning for me going off to uni (all 3 of us and after nice dinner and a couple of bottles of wine between us) my Dad suggested that my Mum stopped her AVCs as it would have less impact when they were retired as she had already taken time out for kids. My Mum asked "but what would happen if you ran off with a bimbo?" except my Dad misheard and said "binman???? what would I be doing running off with a binman?" So ever since in our family it has been running off with a binman!

tealady

One of my familys sayings is "you're like a f*rt in a bottle meaning you are annoyingly figety

julie2710

My little boy reminded me of one this morning that my mum always uses (he says it now!) It's "oh my giddy aunt! "

Cat got you're tongue? Was another one.

Keep thinking of them then forgetting them again!

meames_2

My friends mum used to call everything FredCarneys circus, so if we were being noisy playing it would be'like Fred carneys circus in here" ,if the tassels on the rug weren't straight it would be" have Fred carneys circus been here?".

meames_2

The "ran off with....." Saying isn't only Black Country.

rosalie-lavender

My family say a large number of the sayings that have already been mentioned on here.

In my house you usually ran off with the coalman or the milkman rather than a black man.

If we asked what was for tea or dinner the answer would be one of these:
wait and see pie, chair leg and pump handle, filleted flies eyebrows and the blood of a kipper, duck under the table or bread and pull it.

One year we went on holiday with my Nan and nearly died when she told the rather posh lady sitting next to us that "you could ride bare bummed to London on these knives." That was after she had asked the waiter for some black workers. (prunes)

My Grandad was tall and thin and Nan used to tell him "you're like a matchstick with the wood scraped off." or "like a rasher of wind, turn you sideways and you would disappear."

thehappybutterfly

the other response to "what's for tea?" was "wheat and sea"

the things you remember from your childhood!

"going to see a man about a dog" was a common one when dad was off the pub except it was changed to "going to see a dog about a man"!