Parents say the oddest things.

thehappybutterfly

got another one for you (a la Little Britain!)

I don't think this would have come from my parents (they didn't swear) but I've always said it so I must have picked it from somewhere!

When you ask someone if they would like a coffee, you say "You fukoffee?" and they respond "No, you fukoffee!"

zaksmum

shellsuit wrote: »

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)

My mum used to say she was going to run off with a black man too...only she used the N word with not the faintest idea it might be offensive.

She used it too when we'd complain it's not fair...she'd say "what's not fair, a N****** hair?"

We'd never dream of speaking like that now but to my mum it was just a statement of fact. That was a word you used to describe a black man.

When my dad was in hospital shortly before he died aged 85 he bellowed down the ward to me as I went in to see him that the doctor had been. "Which one?" I asked him. "The darky fella," he yelled to my horror. "Not the N*****, the P***"

I swear I could have died of embarrassment on the spot but if it was suggested to my dad that his words were racist and therefore very offensive, he'd have been appalled.

shellsuit

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

got another one for you (a la Little Britain!)

I don't think this would have come from my parents (they didn't swear) but I've always said it so I must have picked it from somewhere!

When you ask someone if they would like a coffee, you say "You fukoffee?" and they respond "No, you fukoffee!"

Was it "Are you OK for coffee?" but said fast so it sounded like fukoffee?

smileypigface

Having a smile at some of these that my family use (or variations of) too.

A couple of my favourites from my childhood - my great gran used to say "you've got to eat a peck o'dirt before you die" - used when someone complains that something is dirty - she was an early advocate of exposure to a fair amount of germs to let your immune system build up!!! No surprise then, that she was a firm believer in "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" too!

My grandad used to say, when he was short of money, that he was "light on the hips" - ie, not much cash filling his pockets! He was a bookie's runner in the early 1930s and had a whole host of sayings, like betting tips - my favourite is "never ignore a Golden on a Saturday" - meaning you should put your bet on a horse with Golden in it's name!!

I wonder what sayings my children and grandchildren will remember me for in the future!!!!!!!

This_Year

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

got another one for you (a la Little Britain!)

I don't think this would have come from my parents (they didn't swear) but I've always said it so I must have picked it from somewhere!

When you ask someone if they would like a coffee, you say "You fukoffee?" and they respond "No, you fukoffee!"

Love that quote.

(it's from The High Life, absolutely brilliant comedy! )

Hardup_Hester

Rushing around like a fart in a colander, or like a fart in a thunderstorm, someone rushing around but not achieving anything..
Nobody would stop a galloping horse, said about a small stain or fault in an outfit.
Who made her Queen of the May, someone putting on airs & graces.
Living over the brush refers to pagan tradition of handfasting, hands tied together & leaping over a brush, an form of commonlaw marriage. Hubby & I had a pagan wedding ceremony.
Hester

Raksha

Frith wrote: »

My mum's sayings include - "Just a cotton picking moment" and my smaller son has started saying that. Grandma would say "put the wood in the hole" meaning shut the door.

Ex mother in law had several including "I'll go to Hannover" when surprised and (our favourite) if she was talking and forgot what she was going to say next "Sure to have been a lie" !

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?"

On the canals, boats would be in pairs, one with an engine which towed the one without - the butty boat.

Whats for supper? Fresh air pie and windy pud.

Thems that ask don't get, thems that don't ask don't want...

Didn't come up on a down train.

Not as green as I'm cabbage looking...

Kaz2904

I once commented in passing to one of our German Doctors that "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger". She was very surprised as she said it was a very common German saying but she had never heard it said in England.
I say "Running round like a scalded cat" which IMO is nicer than the blue ar5ed fly one.
I overheard DH the other day saying to the kids (on the subject of swearing) "Yes but Mummy has a mouth like a sailor!" .

Many of these are familiar to me.

julie2710

Frugalista wrote: »

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 ??)

I found my Pip book the other day and have been reading the stories to my bios at bedtime. All the tales of painting the blackbirds beaks gold and getting glue from the maple trees

Hardup_Hester

Just remembered another favourite.
All fur coat & no knickers, meaning a house full of posh stuff & no food in the cupboards.