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

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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?

Whappen = What happens

So much easier saying whappen! For example “whappen if they don’t do it right”

An "Auntie Pat" is a cup of tea that isn't full enough. So called because my friend's old aunt would make tea this way, and I've adopted the saying.

Gwadge

Guacamole, mispronounced by a dippy colleague as Gwadge-Imi-coaly. Now affectionately known as Gwadge in our house.

Love this thread!

Singing The Muppets 'mahna mahna' means can I have a ham sandwich please (sing I'll have a ham, do dooo do do to the tune and you will understand).

We also shout 'because sheep aren't cows' at the end of debates/arguments/discussions which have not reached a natural conclusion, because DH and I were once arguing about the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie, and I was becoming increasingly frustrated with him. That was my final input to the argument and he found it hilarious. The kids also use that now to end debates.

Jimmy Julie's for pyjamas. We say to the kids 'get your Jimmy Julie's on' or sometimes just Jimmy's.
Think it is a natural progression of pyjamas, pjs, pidgies, etc somehow! Have no idea why!

Spit and sticks.

It’s the answer to ‘what’s for dinner’ when you don’t know yet, haven’t decided.

I've come across "Fancy Dan" in Marion Keyes books - sometimes wish I was Irish so I could say things like "feck", "your man", "yoke" and "ride me sideways" and not sound weird.

Lots of ours are from things DDs said when they were little like "jamanas" for "pyjamas".

We call the cat "gatta" after queueing behind a woman at the fish van - she was very loud and asked for "some godda, godda, godda!" meaning "cod".

And home phrases can be confusing.
Apparently, I emerged very cross from my first day at school and announced loudly: "It's not a tuppy like you said! Debbie Harris says it's a cuckoo!".

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

OMG my mum used to say, "I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking" for the same thing.

When someone asks how you are feeling, sometimes we say “about now” It’s that feeling of not being quite 100% but not particularly ill either so you can’t describe any specific symptoms . No idea where it comes from but all our family use it !

When I was on guide camp a very annoying girl with an unusual name quietly went to the loo everytime there were tasks to be done usually washing up. Her name is now the code word for this shirking behaviour - sadly used a lot atm as my 11 year old tries this !

I suspect we sound like knobs talking to each other, because everything has a twist on it for no reason other than it started and has not yet finished.
Eg we can only say Mayonnaise in the voice of the Sergeant major from Officer and a Gentleman.
"Are you serious?" Requires the response, "Yes, Sirius black".
If you ask, "Got the key" the other has to say "Got the secret".

When one of us brings the other a drink or a snack, the bringer hands it to the recipient, saying ‘please accept this humble offering’, and then backs away from them bowing. Been doing this forever. I can’t remember why now!

cloudscanlook my great aunt used to say "i'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking"

If we're looking for something that the other person had moved we say "Nicooole! Where'z me muneh?!' (money, broad Manchester accent) because a girl once walked past us shouting it to her mate.

We mainly just use a lot of Phoenix nights quotes.
"You can't do that" "I can, and I have, Potter!"
"Just you wait, the things I'll do to you!"
"Head? Sets? Sets? For your head?'
Bonus points if used completely out of context.

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We did the same in our house! Although it was called 'pushing' rather than just push. A child would say they had done some pushing. Ie done a poo. Hilarious. It obviously must have derived from the act of straining and turned into a suitably non-rude word for poop.

I say 'acka vey' if something's dirty or mucky and I don't want the DCs to touch it. My mum and grandma both used to say it, I think it comes from Wales but not sure if it's actually Welsh!

If we have anything with beans and sausages I always ask DH if he wants me to use the sausage as a breakwater. There are lots of Alan Partridge quotes!

The post office is the poor fish because my brother couldn't pronounce it when he was little.

Rubbish is ubs which I only found out wasn't a real thing when I tried to use it at uni and nobody understood what I was talking about!

My DF used to say, ‘I am going to commune with my soul,’ when off to the bog for a good long ‘sit’ with the paper.

when one of us has been a bit of twit at something its'throw yourself in next time' , from lord of the rings when a hobbit knocks a 'skelington' down a well.

'we have come on holiday by mistake' when things are going tits up

'I want the finest wine known to humanity' when asked if we would like a drink

'I'll have a glass of wine and a sausage' when looking at a menu, my gds announed this when he was about 3, in a pub while looking at an upside down menu

We had a wheat bag hot water bottle thing in the shape of a Schnauzer. I'd always refer to it as such - 'is it cold enough for the schnauzer tonight?'.

DH's first language isn't English, and sometimes has slightly odd ideas...

So one day (god knows why) DH and I and my two best mates were discussing electric blankets. DH chimes in with 'we don't need one, we have a schnauzer'. After odd looks from friends (who know we don't have dogs, of course), he elaborates with 'we just put the schnauzer in the microwave for a minute - much cheeper than an electric blanket!'

Friends looked oh so concerned, DH was wondering why we were all confused, I was pissing myself.

Turns out he'd never heard of a schnauzer dog, he just thought that was the name for wheat bags.

I say 'acka vey' if something's dirty or mucky and I don't want the DCs to touch it. My mum and grandma both used to say it, I think it comes from Wales but not sure if it's actually Welsh!

We say this, ach-y-fi! It is Welsh according to Welsh DH.

If anyone asks me 'guess what?' I automatically say teapot.

We say this, ach-y-fi! It is Welsh according to Welsh DH.

I think it's "ych-y-fi".

The Y is pronounced "uh" - like the "u" in "up".
And the "ch" is a soft sound like the ch in "Bach" (the composer; or "Little" in Welsh), not like "ck" in "back".

A bit like yours... At both my house and my parents house we have a coffee machine, the name of this model is Pixie (my parents also have a cat named Pixie which is why they bought this particular machine!)

So now if we're making coffee it's either a kettle coffee or a Pixie coffee 😊

He speaks Welsh and I don't LaMarschallin phonetically to my English ears it sounds something like "iach ee vee" soft v sound. I just googled the spelling and I came up like that.