What phrases have you gained from people who will be totally unaware?

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Me and DP have a few phrases that have stuck because of something funny we've overheard, often from strangers, that we use all the time, and I think it's really interesting how much these random people pop up in regular conversation.

Examples;

My friend's daughter said 'hey cat, you look like a bread' when the cat was loafing. We say this to any loafing cat now

My brother's ex's little boy got a stretch armstrong for his birthday. He was really pleased with it and we showed great interest, and he said 'I want a stretch armsdog too' so the dog version will always be stretch armsdog

And my absolute favourite, in a zoo, a small child 'Mum, look it's a bum' (about a random animal, I can't remember) the Mum piped up 'you're going to see a lot of bums'. Everytime we see animals 'you're going to see a lot of bums'

Anyone else have any of these?

We once heard a woman on the beach say "put on your fleecey weecey" to her son. Fleeces were known as such in our house from then on.

DH and I were once having dinner with a friend and there were two women having an argument at a nearby table. It started out quietly, getting progressively louder and louder until one of them stood up, shouted "well, whoop-de-FUCKING-doo!" and stormed out of the restaurant.

This was over ten years ago but we still say it all the time.

DH and I were in Manchester for the night about 15 years ago. Random man walked past us hurriedly whilst speaking on his mobile. The only part of the conversation we caught was “it’s a bit of a dilemma”.

So any time either of us is feeling indecisive about something, no matter how trivial, we declare “it’s a bit of a dilemma” in a broad Mancunian accent. Neither of us speaks with a Mancunian accent normally

Someone I used to know, very nice, but who a friend described as a ‘married spinster’ IYKWIM.
Whenever she took her dcs anywhere, she’d say, ‘Well, it’s a little outing, isn’t it?’
I often say it when going anywhere with dh!

Coming out of Superdrug years ago and a young bloke said as me and my kids passed "ischa bit wet" (it was raining). It's just what we say when it's raining now.

One of my sons is autistic and when he was a small child he described a weird feeling (someone walking over your grave if anyone remembers that phrase) as "shiggy shaggy" which has been a phrase for feeling weird ever since.

When DH and I were on our honeymoon, we were staying near a private school.

We were in the beach one day (Cornwall) and a teacher came by with a small group of boys. I think they were doing PE on the beach. He cheerily announced 'half a mile more then we'll stop for biccies and fizz'.

We have since referred to any form of refreshments as biccies and fizz!

My sister was catering a posh event and took round a tray of canapés, at which point a loud, sloshed lady exclaimed "Oooooh CANAPES" (rhymes with "grapes").
Obviously ever since we have called all food 'canapes'

we have a few but the most recent was on Scott Mills Breakfast Show. Because they can’t mention brands on the BBC he referred to Baileys as Irish Christmas Milk. The name has stuck in this house.

A conversation between my husband and our friend Joanna’s (I’ll call her) new boyfriend. It was Christmas and everyone there was slightly drunken.

My husband commented to Joanna’s new boyfriend (now beloved husband), who’d been singing her praises, that ‘it’s true, Joanna is such a great person’.

The boyfriend replied, jabbing a finger slightly ‘No I’m telling YOU Joanna’s a great person’.

For the past 20 years since then, often when my husband or I say something positive the other one agrees with, the reply will come ‘no I’M telling YOU…’ in a slightly proprietorial way…

Years ago wandering around lost in Rome with DS, we asked a couple of guys for directions. "Go to the kiosk on the corner and turn left" says one and his mate starts laughing at him, saying "Kiosk isn't an English word, idiot". The other guy goes "Madam, madam, please confirm : how do you say kiosk in English?" so I say "it's kiosk" and he laughs loudly, winks and shakes my hand then goes to his mate "See? See? kiOSK ahhaha" flips him the bird and goes "see, kiOSK, vaffanculo" while the poor mate stands there looking crestfallen. So now all kiosks are referred to as "kiOSK, fuck you".

I was on holiday in Cornwall, had just parked the car and was looking at a beautiful beach in sparkling sunshine, with surfers doing their thing. A bloke came and stood next to me and I commented on how lovely it was, and he said "Yeah, it's nice, but it doesn't beat Luton." So now, any nice view, that's what we say!

Years ago we were camping and opposite us was a family with high-spirited kids jumping around. It was bedtime, and the father had obviously had enough of trying to get them to settle down. He stood outside the tent with a cigarette and said, resignedly, "DON'T make me 'oller!" So it's something we say to each other and it makes us laugh.

Years ago when mine were small we happened across that beloved MN trope: a Loud Parenter._

She was VERY LOUDLY encouraging her small bouncy child to hop by shrieking “hop hop, little friend” repeatedly while we queued for the IoW botanical gardens.

My DC still say it regularly.

DH and I were in London and Wayne Hemingway walked past in the middle of a conversation and all we heard him say was: ‘I’m an expert!’ very loudly and confidently. We’ve used it ever since when being definitive about our expertise in any given subject.

My sister’s ex-MIL was excessively boring but overly-confident and loved the sound of her own voice. She once told the dullest non-story about going food shopping with her husband, including the phrase: ‘… and Pete said he fancied a pork pie…’. We trot that out whenever one of us is telling a long and boring anecdote.