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 H?

We could never say the word hungry around our old retired greyhound else he'd hop up and expect to be fed. So now a generation later we still ask the kids if they're 'H'!

Dd is a teenager but still asks "can you back forwards it?" Means rewind it, always has said it and we could never convince her otherwise 😂

MaraScottie We had to use 'C H' for the same reason, except it was the cat & she understood the word 'cheese'!

This is a gross one but we used to called poo "push,"

I had no idea til i was 11 or so that that was not a word anybody else understood to mean poo

Yesterdays dinner reheated for today is "DLOs" - delicious left overs. Said in a "ooooh, lovely" tone.

So on a Monday evening when I'm reheating slices of yesterday's roast in gravy, and DS asks what's for dinner I say "tonight we're having DLOs" as though it's the best meal.ever.

Not a phrase, but an accent. Whenever anyone in our house is eating grapes everyone else asks in a Newcastle accent "have you got any grapes?" and "can I have some more grapes". It stems from.when the DC were small and we were on holiday in Northumberland. We were on the beach and they befriended a boy and his younger sister who was about 3 or 4. She spotted the grapes in our picnic bag and kept asking for them in a Geordie accent which our 2 Southern DC found fascinating. We now always say grapes with Geordie accent.

“I’m splodged”

Really full up after a meal - can’t remember why!

Bertie Smalls

Always and forever using this if someone in our family is being a grass..

Alright stop being a Bertie!

“ are you looking after Janice “

Means top me up you fool, what are you doing sitting with the wine bottle next to you ?

No idea why 😂

DS used to mispronounce 'remote control' when he was little and it sounded like 'goat control' so now it's just known as a goat. 'Has anyone seen the goat?'

I don't know if it's a family thing but I've never heard it anywhere else.... OHs family say 'you lie like a flat fish' to mean 'I don't believe you'. Always find that one funny.

My Dad makes a roast dinner and plates up a couple for the following days, reheating them in the microwave. Now all microwaveable leftovers are known in the family as ‘ding dinners’

Loving this thread.
As a kid, when my dad came home from work he'd go upstairs to change into comfy clothes. This process was called transmognify.

We also use silly accents for certain foods. Lemonade is said in a drawn out way, lemonaaaaade. Mayo is shouted like the old margarine advert 'dayo dayo daylight come and I wanna go home'. Mango is always said in a questionable Caribbean accent and often accompanied by dancing. Cheese is said as in 'Cheese,gromit'. I could go on...

My OH and I use killing rats to mean we've just done a poo. The number of rats killed indicates the severity of the smell. Eg 'i may have just killed a whole army of rats' said in an apologetic tone.

We say someone is being “sandpit” if they won’t share. I can’t remember why!

"Grimmer than Ben Grimmer" for something disgusting. (DH and I went to uni with a guy called Ben Grimmer).
"Mashymoes"for marshmallows - it was on an episode of Tilly and Friends when the kids were little.
If we are ever talking about someone's age it is always measured by "Colin". "He's even older than Colin". "He's old, but not as old as Colin". "Imagine being as old as Colin". (Colin is in fact just 10 months older than me, and has no idea he is our age measure).

"So you do that".

In a Flanders and Swann monologue 'By Air', Michael Flanders describes a tannoy announcement that sounded like, "Fneurny fnurgh droobly buuurb, flerby azyurb" (for added realism hold your nose while speaking), then added, "So you do that". My Mum and I say it after any incomprehensible tannoy announcement.

We like to speak like the policeman from Allo Allo sometimes.

We call the baby monitor Simon, which came from the following natural evolution baby monitor > b'onitor > Simon Le Bon > Simon
Would be a bit weird if anyone else ever saw us going to bed and saying "ooh don't forget to bring Simon"

My dad says ' I may be green, but I'm not a vegetable 'which I've never heard anyone else say ever. It means I may look stupid but I'm not
Would day it to me all the time as a teenager.

We also call treats 'birdie num nums' after the peter sellers film the party

Other strange ones are Jolly Bonzola! Or just JB - to mean something is good or great.

And my mum is referred to as Lead by me and my brothers (not to her face) as she's as heavy as a tonne of lead according to bro (emotionally not physically) or she was when we were teens. Still is a bit actually.

When shes on a rant I call it a 'Leadfest'.

Loving Fancy Dan op. I like how phrases be words get passed on. My mother always called the kitchen timer "the pinger", cos it goes ping...dd now thinks that's actually what it's called.

As a child we called an orange a baller, so my sister still might ask me if I wanted a baller. I think I would literally be the only person who knew what she meant.

We say "grurrdy" (not really sure how you spell it tbh) when something's not very nice, that's an old word from my childhood too.

I had a colleague who said "she used to chew bread for our ducks" which I think meant "I have no idea who she is". He came from a town rich in local idiosyncratic dialect but even then, I think that phrase was a one-off known only to his family.

If we order takeaway it’s “the dinner man”. From when DS was small and used to screech with joy that “the dinner man is here!”

Oh my god @GoddessOfGettingThereInTheEnd when I was wee we called a poo a push as well. Never come across anyone else who said that!!

@cloudscanlooklikesheep there's a saying "not as green as I'm cabbage looking" which is fairly well known. I think its lovely 😁

I love that my dad got it a bit wrong!

We were staying in the same hotel as DH's parents for a family do. We were mooching in the corridor after breakfast and I asked them if they wanted to see our room (we got a random free upgrade)

DFIL said no, he was going for a sit down. I said he could sit in our room, he said no - he was off for a sit. Went on for a bit with me being all "you won't be putting us out blah blah"

Turns out 'going for a sit' means going for a poo. They were amazed I didn't know a d thought I was trying to badger DFIL into going for a shite in our bathroom