Parents say the oddest things.

shellsuit

We used to get the "ran off with a black man" too.


What's for tea Grandad? "Chicken lips".


"She's/he's neither use nor ornament"


When I was going out.
Dad - "And hey, let's be careful out there" (People who watched 80s cop shows will get that one)

Heffi1

What's for tea usually got stewed bugs and onions
If we asked for something and were told it was rude to ask, it was followed with shy bairns get nowt, used all over the place up here
Blackpool illuminations of course
you make a better door than a window
off out for a bimble still has people looking at me strangely, means to go for a wander with nowhere specific in mind, usually a shopping centre for a look about, is I'm just off to the Metro Centre for a bimble. I am not sure where I got this one from though as people around here look very oddly at me, so I think it might be a military one, which brings me to saying how do you like your tea, nato please, which meant milk and two sugars.

jellyhead

shellsuit wrote: »

"She's/he's neither use nor ornament"

I said that to my teenager last week ... I'm turning into my nan!!

Frugalista

It appears that my nan was particularly "uncouth" (bless her) .... When we would ask what was for tea, we would be told "!!!!!! with hairs on!" :o:o. Also, if you farted in bed, she called them "Bed Warmers" . I miss her so much .

I also use the phrase "enough blue in the sky to make a pair of sailors trousers". It was a story in my "Pip the Pixie" books of my childhood (Enid Blyton ??)

juliethemuse

dibuzz wrote: »

After eating a meal my mum always says "well if that's my dinner I've had it",

My Mum would always say that too...why ???
Also , ' you know what thought did? thought he'd pood himself and when he looked he had! :eek:
And talking about a nosy neighbour.. 'Here's my nose, my @rse is following' that's quite ironic as they were really nosey themselves.
Always wanting to know who was 'cufting about' in the neighbourhood.

Mr_Toad

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

ooh, I forgot about this one!

When someone asks you the time it's always "two hairs past the freckle". No idea why.

Probably from the days when a watch was a rare thing and the person you asked would look at their wrist, no watch but hairs and freckles perhaps.

Bykerlass

xbrenx wrote: »

One of my Dad's sayings was "How's your belly for spots?"
Which simply meant how are you?

Ha my Mam used to say this too!

hardpressed

Stir your stumps, meaning get up and do something.

Let the dog see the rabbit, get out of the way and let me see.

Mr_Toad

Frith wrote: »

If she was pairing stuff up (like socks) the second half of a pair would be the "butty" to the first as in "Where's the butty to this one?"

Comes from the rivers and canals. Not all canal boats and barges had an engine. Those that didn't have an engine were paired up with one that did and called a butty.

juliethemuse

Ooh I must share this, whilst I remember as I keep forgetting them.
Describing my very mean uncle. 'He'd skin a fart for sixpence and sell the smell to the poor.