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?

to my English ears it sounds something like "iach ee vee"

Phonetically that sounds okay. Except maybe "uh" instead of "ee".

Does he call your English ears "years"?

I always used to get teased for that.

Also "h'year" for "here".

When my daughter was younger she asked me & my best friend if we were “Love Beans”. She meant lesbians but I much prefer love bean. My friend even thanked her Love Bean in her dedications in her thesis

My late husband and I would say starfishing instead of napping. Also, going for a poo was a sitty doony

We have lots of made up words for objects round the home and for certain tasks, some examples are

Tidying when someone cooks is known as (my mum's name)'ing. Think Susan-ing - although my mum had a v unusual name hence why not putting it here.

Ex and I used to have a word for splitting food, if one of us was going to suggest sharing a sandwich when out ,(or buying 2 and sharing half of each)

My username is from a running joke I had with my mum as a child.

My husband and I were at Wembley Stadium about thirty years ago for a football final and there was a girl a couple of rows in front of us who had obviously seen someone she knew further down the rows of seating and spent the ENTIRE game yelling, "Nadine!!! NA-DIIIINE!" deep breath "Naaaaa-diiiiiiiine!!!".

That is now the default shout if one of us is upstairs and the other downstairs or outside and you need something. Our kids also do it and have never asked why. I think they genuinely think it's the word your use to get someone's attention from afar.

A hettie-hottie is a hot water bottle (I got to secondary school before discovering that was family slang).

A nachi is a satsuma or similar.

Billies are slippers.

And then there are the things I thought were family slang growing up and have since discovered are regional (my DGP grew up in Lancs and we lived in East Anglia so some of my DF’s slang was unique locally). Moosh for friend/dear/mate ‘You alright, moosh?’

Does he call your English ears "years"?

I've learned that here are three type of year. Come year, 12 months in a year and the years on the side of year head

I've learned that here are three type of year. Come year, 12 months in a year and the years on the side of year head grin

Well, quite!

And you might wear "yearings" on those things either side of yer head.

I'm Lord farquad - means "I'm fucked" as in tired
Shitayke mushrooms--shit
Furry muff - fair enough
Delia Smith - means a deal or a promise.

Dh and I are bloody weird!

My dad used to ask "how's your belly off for spots" meaning how are you?

We have ridiculous made up french-sounding words and sayings, said in a terrible french accent for various things. I couldn’t even begin to spell them.

One I’d love to know the explanation for is saying ‘Alan, we’re on the patio’ if someone farts. I heard it on TV years ago

A foreign friend always answered my calls with, "Why you no phone?" to imply that I was in the wrong & I should've called before.

This phrase has become a family joke/shorthand for pointing out emotional blackmail.

If we accidentally burn something it’s Delia’d.

On one of her series, when she did the voiceover and someone else’s hands did the cooking it was always perfect. When she talked to camera while cooking she’d always claim the food had “lovely caramelised bits” which was never mentioned in the recipes. Basically burned the edges of the veg all the while when demonstrating to camera.

So I Delia the toast or DP Deli A’s the bacon etc.

Some of these are so funny. I've realised we also have some similar to other people's, but not quite.

Grandma always used to say "going for a sitting".

Our version of Clary's colleague's "she used to chew bread for our ducks" was "she used to spit in our bucket" (which I'm assuming started off as something a bit ruder).

If someone says Excuse me the response is "why, what have you done?" (That doesn't go down well in Disneyworld, I can tell you )

We once went to a zoo and were followed around by an older couple. The man was dragging behind a bit so the woman would get to the cage and be shouting him "Look Jimmy! Look there's a baby monkey" and of course it would have gone by the time he got there. We were in hysterics by the end; I don't think Jimmy saw anything. We all say look Jimmy if there's anything interesting about to disappear.

Another one comes from the Victoria Wood sketch with Kimberley - looking for me friend, have you seen her? We went on a mini cruise to Denmark many years ago and there was someone dressed just liked Kimberley. An elderly couple asked if we'd seen her...

When DD was very small we used to watch a TV programme called the Giddy Game Show. It was a quiz and they'd say "Gus is ready" "Gorilla's ready". We always say Gorilla's ready to indicate we are going out. One of the DCs asked us recently why we said it, and neither of us could remember. Thank heavens for Google.

“Naught point six seven seconds” when asked how long anything took.

It’s from Star Trek first contact when data is asked if he considered joining the Borg.

When my youngest was about 3 she asked me to scratch her back. I started to scratch it on top of her t-shirt and she said "no, in real life" meaning under the t-shirt. We all use that one.

@CloudsCanLookLikeSheep - my grandad used to say 'are you as green as you are cabbage-looking' for the same reason!

If one of us comes out of a shop with exactly what we went in for the other says 'No luck then, Ted?'

@Mucklowe 😂😂 love that - my family always moan that I don't fill tea & coffee to the top.... I do it to stop spills when carrying!I think me and Auntie Pat are very wise 😃😃

Another one we have... if you're feeling a bit dizzy or light headed we'd say "I'm feeling a bit Kevin' after Kevin Spacey.

Tend to say that less now after his fall from grace...

@RoscoePColtrane - I know that feeling!! Anytime anyone in the family says 'right about now', the other has to say 'funk soul brother'!!

Short longs, long shorts = 3/4 length trousers

Birthday parties would always have a game of “scarfy darky”.

This was pin the tail on the donkey, where you couldn’t see anything because mummy had tied “scarfy darky” over your eyes.

Getting something for supper (snack after tea - we eat about 4pm with DH's work) is foodle doodle.

Amazed and thankful for this thread explaining my mum saying 'ukka vee!' when disgusted by something - my grandma was from South Wales so it must have come from her, despite mum claiming not to have been taught any welsh

When we're having a difficult day or a trying situation like transport delays or dealing with someone being ill one of us will always ask 'are we having fun yet?'. I can't remember the situation that led to the phrase but it's a useful tension breaker.

If someone doesn't like the food offered they say 'I'd prefer something plainer'

When my sister bought a new house, DC1 show as very small, left her a voice mail which was supposed to say 'congratulations on your new house', except he said it 'why your Asians on your new house'.

So now we all say why your Asians instead of congratulations.