What sayings do you have that make perfect sense to your family but none whatsoever to anyone else?

[NoSoapAndGory]

I'd love to hear them 😍

In our house, a 'posh coffee' made with the machine is known as a 'Fancy Dan'. Anything made with the kettle is 'a normal'.

Eg:

"Anyone want a coffee?". Yes please. "Fancy Dan or a normal?"

Fancy Dan was my nan's phrase for anything a bit special. Our kids use the term now and probably don't have a clue why!

Anyone got similar tales?

“Are you stuck for bobbins?”

To my family it means “Have you nothing to do?” or “Are you bored?”
Many of my older relatives worked in cotton mills. It was a question asked when someone had stopped working - did they need more bobbins to continue?

Not a saying as such but a code word. Used for everything from (living in a pub) "there's a fire and I don't want the customers to know" to (when I was a teenager) "I need to get home/out of this situation and I don't know how"
Also used when someone was collecting me from school!

Stevie D. Used for when we don’t remember the name of something. “Do you know the person that sung that song? Goes la la la stevie D!” Makes no sense on paper but everyone in mind and DHs family know what we are talking about!

Maybe Fancy Dan and Stevie D were brothers 😂😂

'Practice pineapple'...years ago DH and I passed a guy on his phone and the sentence we caught was "that's why they should have practiced with a pineapple first!" So bizarre so now "will we need a practice pineapple?" or "I hoped you've practised with a pineapple" have become sayings whenever us or DC are trying something for the first time

Grawn beans.

DP and I were talking about how when we were kids we thought “Sean Bean” was pronounced “Seen Bean”. Later that night he asked me if I wanted green beans for tea and I said “actually, I think you’ll find they’re pronounced grawn beans” and now it’s a permanent thing xD

We also occasionally like to scream “DIG UP THE ROOOOOAD” at each other thanks to Mr Bull in Peppa Pig

We have several nonsensical ones that I’ll not mention here (most are film / tv references that have somehow been adapted over time), but our favourite is from my mum’s hairdresser years ago...she was telling my mum a story about an oncoming car and she exclaimed with such passion (and conviction) that their headlights were “full on bean!”, so now whenever anyone mentions a car’s headlights being on full beam within our family, they are instead “full on bean”.

Own brand foods / drinks are 'schmeng' in our house.

'We need tonic. Should I just get the schmeng one?'

Deodorant is 'dooberry do'

If someone's being annoying or rude we say that was a bit Amber Rudd. Nothing political it just happened.

What are we having for dinner?
"Oh it's an Aunty Ethel's effort"
Which means I'm cobbling some ingredients together without a recipe. No idea where it came from!

Ikaboo - I might adopt 'schmeng', that's great!

Ooh another one. If we have chips for tea DS saves the biggest one till the end. That's the Love Chip and we all share it by taking a bite - me, then DH, then DS. He's being doing it since he was about 2. He's 15 this year.

For us it’s pubs. (Remember those?). In the days When one went out to pubs . Our choice of local pubs includes the “bloody pub” (which we like!so called because there was a chap in the next door bar whose every other word was literally “bloody”;) the funeral pub as we first went there to a funeral wake and the dog pub because of a particularly adorable dog we saw there.

Oh and DS’ grandmother had a saying - if you saved your special something, whether, say, an Easter egg or a glass of wine until everyone else had finished theirs, you were being a flossie. Because as a child she had a cousin called Flossie who deliberately saved all her chocolate until the other children had finished then ate hers slowly and gloatingly.

We have a family word that came about because DH was playing that Wordscapes game on his phone and the letters were in a particular order making what looked like it should be a word. We decided it should have a meaning a bit like "it's all gone Pete Tong."

Are we having a dinner tonight? Or a dinner dinner?

Translation;

Are we eating a cooked meal this evening? Or are going to have a roasted joint with vegetables and gravy, like we might have on a Sunday?

Calling shoes 'daps'
Calling teeth 'goofers'
Instead of feeling poorly/ill we say 'feeling peaky'
Think it's more of a local thing though rather than just our family. We live in the west country

"so what do you want, egg in your beer?" said to anyone who's not satisfied with what they've got...
My Dad, an aero engineer in Oz when they were opening up a route down to Darwin and fresh eggs+beer came in on the occasional flight and when stocks ran out, they were OUT til the next,sporadic, flight, so put up,shut up, and b.well get on with it.Love that one

ours refers to food and translates as: the ingredient of the late housewife Elisabeth = burned

Oh wow - so many are cryptic! I may have to have a fancy dan while I read!!

Never in a rain of pigs pudding is what we say when something will never happen. I think that’s a regional thing though.

Spinning cat, to mean naff, from the fete in Father Ted when they had a cat on a record player as an attraction called , yes Spinning cat.

We say Snakes Alive in a dramatic voice when we are surprised. I have no idea why.

Whenever someone messed up shuffling cards my DPs would say "deals like Uncle Ray". One of my DC once asked how he dealt and I had no clue; it's just something we've always said.

Barking pavement for baking parchment, after missaying it one day.

"Absolutely, biscuit!" = totally or spot on. No idea why.