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Sayings from childhood you remember

163 replies

hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 21:46

Thinking today about all the things my grandparents / parents used to say :

Put wood in"t hole = shut the door

If you were dallying you were "like a fart in a trance "

What's for tea ? "Shit with sugar on"

My gran to express shock would say " oh my godfathers teeth"

Another fave was "it"ll all come out in the wash "

"Gods strewth" was another

Am I alone in these ? Any others people remember?

OP posts:
Raindancer411 · 09/02/2023 22:00

Oh and what's for dinner... bread and iffit

Loafbeginsat60 · 09/02/2023 22:01

Were you born in a barn?
Put big light on
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
If the wind changes your face will stay like that

I think we are all from Yorkshire/Derbyshire by the sound of it!

Marsbardelight · 09/02/2023 22:01

"Blow me down with a feather"

"Up the apples and pairs"

Good reading is this brings back memories 😂

Its2amimustbelonely · 09/02/2023 22:02

hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 21:59

When I asked where someone was :
Run away with a black man (probably not very acceptable now !)

And what are you doing ?
"Making a wim wam for ducks to dabble in "
😂

When I used to ask where my mum was, my dad used to say "she went mad so I shot her" !!!

Cantwait4summer94 · 09/02/2023 22:03

hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 21:58

Used to get
Called fanny adams and still no idea who she is .....

Fanny Adams was a little girl who was kidnapped and murdered in the Victorian era

HeyMicky · 09/02/2023 22:04

"Born in a tent" here, for not closing the door

nervousnancy84 · 09/02/2023 22:04

hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 21:58

Used to get
Called fanny adams and still no idea who she is .....

This is a really awful story actually. She was quite brutally murdered. Look it up. There's a pretty grotesque reason behind the saying 'sweet Fanny Adams' (or sweet FA).

BrownOwlknowsbest · 09/02/2023 22:04

The gruesome story of Fanny Adams here www.historyanswers.co.uk/people-politics/the-gruesome-origin-of-sweet-fanny-adams/

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hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 22:05

Ohgodi didn't know that about fanny adams....

If I had dirty nails (I was always knee deep in mud!) it was "you could grow spuds in those "

OP posts:
Anapana · 09/02/2023 22:08

What’s for tea?
Windmill pie- if it goes round, you get a bit

iklboo · 09/02/2023 22:08

What's for tea - 'shit, shite & sugar' or 'three jumps at the cupboard door and a bite of the knob'

'Don't come running to me if you fall & break your leg'

'Do you want a smack?' (Did anyone ever say yes?)

'Come here while I give you a crack'

'You've got a face like a wet week in Margate'

'If the wind changes your face will stick like that'

'It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here'

Very racist response to 'It's not fair' - 'neither's a black man's arse'. Took me ages to work that one out

'She's all fur coat & no drawers'

'More front than Blackpool'.

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hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 22:11

Anapana · 09/02/2023 22:08

What’s for tea?
Windmill pie- if it goes round, you get a bit

😂. Brill! Like that one

OP posts:
TellingBone · 09/02/2023 22:13

Sat there like:

  • Piffy on a rock bun
  • A bump on a log

Where's so and so?

  • Gone to see a dog about a man
  • Up a nick in Russia
Belle96 · 09/02/2023 22:17

Eastereggsboxedupready · 09/02/2023 21:54

Were you born in a field? (door left open)

We're you born in a barn is the same meaning but what was said for us

Belle96 · 09/02/2023 22:18

What's for tea? Don't know havent christened it yet....

Flapjackwithcurrantsin · 09/02/2023 22:26

Dad used to say I'll give you something to cry about, which would make me cry more. As another poster said already, I got asked if I wanted a smack. I was very cheeky so would say yes sarcastically and get a massive slap on the legs.
Gran would say ecky thump as OP mentioned and eeeee bye gum.
My great gran used to talk about shit oils (it's how she pronounced shit holes - I think?).
Thick as two short planks was said.
Put a sock in it.
Fur coat no knickers.
It was like a pea on a drum (gran said this
a lot).
Stop sticking yer sneck in (sneck being nose).
Yes we are from up North!

selck · 09/02/2023 22:31

Who's coat is this jacket?

Runnerduck34 · 09/02/2023 22:36

Great thread,bringing back memories

See a man about a dog

If the wind changes you'll stay like that

Slow boat to china

Cloth ears

No better than she ought to be

All fur coat no knickers

Confirmed batchelor

Were you born in a barn?

Penny for your thoughts

Going to spend a penny

Bobs your uncle

Fit as a fiddle

Anapana · 09/02/2023 22:41

Bobs yer uncle - the reply to that was and Fanny’s yer aunt

face like a bad ham (I love this and use it regularly)

RustyExhaust · 09/02/2023 22:42

You’ll have somebody’s eye out!!

All my eye and Betty Martin

Shes no better than she ought to be

plugin12 · 09/02/2023 22:42

You look like you've been dragged through a bush backwards

Saschka · 09/02/2023 22:46

hellobethyname · 09/02/2023 21:58

Used to get
Called fanny adams and still no idea who she is .....

Incredibly grisly child murder victim, but now used to mean “fuck all” = FA = Fanny Adams

Onesipmore · 09/02/2023 22:47

She's not as green as she's cabbage looking!
The wind will blow and your face will stick like it.
Its like Blackpool illuminations here
Up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire
Do you want a smack
All fur coat and no knickers
Cloth ears
She's a right Bobby Dazzler

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 09/02/2023 22:49

You look like the wreck of the heperas
Or
Dragged through a hedge backwards
Or
A sack tied in middle

Guessing I wasn't a tidy child

ScreamALullabye · 09/02/2023 22:49

Black o"er our jacks mothers

Wind u'll change and your face will stay like that

Sights you see when you ain't got your gun

Fetch us that, I can't, I've got a bone in mi leg