Sayings from childhood you remember

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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?

I'm from the north but I don't remember my parents or grandparents having any sayings.

My brother said "up your bum on 2nd shelf" as a pp has already mentioned."

DH says "about as much use as tits on fish"

Another he says to the kids.
"Excuses are like arseholes we've all got one" that one makes me cringe.

Up the wooden Hill to Bedfordshire, down sheet lane to blanket fair. I still say this every night to my children.

My mum used to say wine is very searching, no idea and can't think why I didn't ask her what she meant 🤔

It's looking Black over at Bills mothers ( storm clouds coming )

It's up my arse on a piece of string

Stone the crows

"It's black over Bill's mothers". Dark clouds on the horizon. Lancashire.

A word in your shell-like
There's no need to make a song and dance about it (if someone was making a big fuss)
You're not made of glass (when someone was standing in front of the TV)

Fallen over!

If asked what was for dinner: "Knobs of chairs and pump handles."

Man about a dog here!

an excuse not to do something.."I would but I've got a bone in my leg"

Dragged through a hedge backwards

or

You look like wreck of the Hesperus

(messy)

"Tart in a trance" may have been corrupted.

"Do you think I came up on the last banana boat?"
Nowadays, I realise this is actually quite offensive!

"Thick as two short planks."

Makes me wonder what our kids will writing on these threads in 30 years!

Re kinapping - if they picked me up in the dark, they'd drop me off in the morning
Meant one wasn't particularly pretty!

"I'll give you away free with a pound of tea," and " I'll knock you into the middle of next week".

My 4 year old recently learned the whole "I have eyes in the back of my head!" thing and finds it fascinating!

God my dh is northern and says loads of these!!'

If I had something exciting to share and started by saying 'Guess what?' to my mother she would always reply with 'Cold shit ain't hot'
To this day I still don't know what it means.

Gordon Bennett (when surprised)
little girls should be seen and not heard

Most of these plus "champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget"

Have your trousers fell out wi' thi' shoes? (Trousers being too short/ outgrown)

If someone asked 'Who are you looking at?' you'd reply 'Summat ugly staring back!'

If you couldn't sit/stand still, you had ants in your pants

Wilful waste brings woeful want
You'll have the devil on your back - if I looked in the mirror and asked if I were pretty
'Y's a crooked letter and you can't pull it straight

Mother was from Lancashire but one of her parents was from IoM the other from Bradford - both born about 1870-80 mother 1915.

Only one that comes to mind from DF is 'the p's silent, as in bathing'. He used to get dark looks for that one.