Sayings from childhood you remember

[hellobethyname]

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?

When there was no chance of something happening, my nan used to say ‘you’ve got more chance of shitting in Russia’

'If the wind changes you'll stay like that' (if we were making silly faces)

Two more:

On the qui vive - on the look out/alert
In my dishabille - always pronounced in an English accent, e.g DISH -a bill, to be caught out in one's dressing gown/not fully dressed in the middle of the day.

What you getting for Christmas?

A doll, a drum, and a kick up the bum.

You're up and down them stairs like a blue arsed fly

When worried about being kidnapped my mum would day 'Don't worry they'll leave you at the first lamp post'

Ecky thump

Ha I’d forgotten “put wood int hole” 😁 and “wreck of the Hesperus”
My Nan used to say “you’re not made of sugar” if we moaned about going out in the rain

Can't believe how many of your Nans swore 😱

My mum used to say, when we went for a walk or something, 'Hold me arm and call me Charlie' - wth does that mean?

Whenever I asked my nanny how old she was she'd say
"As old as my tongue and a bit older than my teeth "

Just remembered that one !

'He's like a long streak of vinegar dust'

To describe someone lanky and thin

You'll get what you're given
I want never gets.
If you're hungry the fruit bowl is there

Oh I used to get
I want never gets !

"Don't go out with wet hair, you'll catch your death!"

"She is the cat's mother" (that one used to puzzle me no end as a child!

"There's no use crying over spilt milk"

"A penny for your thoughts"

DH always says it's 'like the wreck of the Hesperus' - I've never ever heard anybody say it before!

Phrases in our family included replying with 'Icky the Fire Bobby' if somebody asked you a question about who somebody was or who had done something.

'He/she's got a mouth like the Mersey tunnel'

'It's like bloody Blackpool illuminations in here'

Hells teeth...something my nana would say

And "Going to see a man about a dog"roughly translated to my dad going to the pub for 5 hours

As much use as a glass eye through a keyhole.
Neither use nor ornament.
Large as life and twice as natural.

A few from my step-dad:

"You two'd argue over 2 flies crawling up the wall." When my siblings and I were arguing over something ridiculous.

"Cough it up; if it's a gold watch, I'll have it." If you were choking on something.

"You're like my arse." When you're being useless, e.g. not looking properly for something you'd lost.

They want to know the inside and out of my arse. When applying for jobs or benefits or talking about google.

"Up your bum, on the 2nd shelf." When you ask where something was that was lost.

"That rings a bell." Whenever the phone rang.

Everything he ever jokingly needed to remember went down on page 11.

She thinks she's best coal (Geordie expression)

More edge than a broken piss pot

I want don't get
Stop your mithering
(from the Scottish ones) haud yir wheesht

Stop picking your nose your head will cave in

You're like a bull in a china shop

I say stuff and my colleagues look at me like

Like a fart in a colander
Standing there like piffy on a rock bun
You make a better door than a window
Could eat a scabby mattress (really hungry)
Smells like a tarts boudoir
Are you going to hang the pelmet up when you're done wearing it? (Short skirt)
Two of sand, one of cement (heavy makeup)

One from my Nan if she wanted to swear without swearing "bloody sands and beaches"
I googled it and it's from the war apparently
And my cousin always says "alreet cock" when he rings me

If I said "why?" too much
"Because Y isn't a Z"

Coughing - it wasn't the cough that carried her off, it was the coffin they carried her off in thanks dad

"Faster than a dog eating beetroot ..."
Since no one has ever seen dogs eating beetroot they are so fast