What odd sayings or phrases do you remember from childhood?

[Velvasilk]

What's the silliest saying or phrase you remember from being younger?

Milk 'em Malcolm, tinky tinky talcum.

To this day I don't know what it even means.

"I believe in miracles,
Where you from? You sexy thing!"

Because of the singer's distinct delivery and accent, generations of listeners have misheard "I believe in miracles" as "Milk 'em Malcolm, tinky tinky talcum" .

//1975 hit song "You Sexy Thing" by the British soul band Hot Chocolate.

your not the boss of me,

from Malcom in the middle

Jesus wept
ummm Betty
slaphead

the earth is doomed, - giles

One my mum would say sometimes, translated from Finnish "remember, bone isn't meat and sheep's heads aren't sausages"

When I was little I thought "right char" was a way of signing off from a phonecall, and was kind of mystified as to what tea (a cuppa char) had to do with it. Turns out my mum was just saying "right you are" to callers to let them know that their order had been noted.

From my Australian grandmother
'slower than a wet week' -to me getting ready for school

'what do you think this is, bushweek?' -at any request, for anything expensive

'couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery' -about my father

'she went mad and they shot her'- if you asked where someone was

'she is the cat's mother'- if addressed any woman as 'she' and not by her name

'mad as a cut snake' - about our eccentric neighbour

Where so and so? Up the elephant and round the corner.

'she went mad and they shot her'- if you asked where someone was

I love this, think I'm going to start using it

A variation of that, if asked where a particular item is ... Up your arse on the second shelf.

When we were kids I can remember it a lot, when you asked somebody where something was you would get that answer.

Sometimes they also added on Pigs in America 😙 as well.

Or is it just a Leicester-ism?

PLP meaning Public Leaning Post. Said often as a question, ‘Are you a PLP?’. Not sure now whether that means we could lean against them.

‘Watch out, watch out, there’s a Humphrey about’ - Milk advertising campaign

@Velvasilk nope I'm in Derbyshire and I use it too 😁

"Where's Dad?"
"Gone to see a man about a dog."

"I'm going to see Mrs Murphy" for going to the loo.

my late parents used to say someone had gone to see a man about a dog..To Paddy's Market.If they didn't believe what you said,it was "my aunt Fannie", which meant a lie. DM didn't swear,df used to say b*gger my scooter. You said you were going to do something adventurous,he said "you won't be able to do that all the time you have a hole in your arse."

Oh and another one. Mixing and modging. My grandma used to say it. You'll make yourselves sick with all that mixing and modging. Basically when we were greedy at a buffet.

our gran/drandpa would say, ‘he’s gone to the shore for a loaf’ as well as
‘gone to see a man about a dog’ - really perplexing for children

elderly female neighbours being ‘under the doctor’
mysterious maladies called ‘nerves’

don’t do that! the wind will change and you’ll be stuck with it (facial expression)

spit it out! when faltering with a tale, or
‘going all round the houses to get to next door’
All round the Wrekin to get to our house

He/she looks like you spat him/her out ! said when a child closely resembled
the parent,

put the wood in the hole/were you born in a barn : (please close the door)
Stop hanging on the latch - (you are using delaying tactics, off to bed!)
visitors at the front door, family in the back door

can’t (whatever) for toffee !
couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag/ organise a bun fight in a bakery/
booze up in a brewery

one cruel one was Or the Bogeyman will get you! making sure we were
home by twilight

I think Gone to see a man about a dog was used if men went to the pub

My nan had a very (funny) sharp tongue. About a woman of dubious character she'd say "common as muck and twice as dirty" 😲

All fur coat and no knickers

Where's Gran? A = "run off with a black man" = meaningless racist 'joke'.

"Canned up" = pissed
"Simple" = thick

"His Lordship" = term of endearment for male family member

"There's nowt so queer as folk". Self explanatory, still like / use this one!

Without wanting to offend anyone, especially cricket fans, Derbyshire is Leicester-ish, they have boundary.

Really? I am old enough to have been around when it was released. It doesn't sound anything like that, where on earth did you get that from?

“Charlie’s dead!” Said to someone whose petticoat was showing. Referred to flags at half mast, I think.

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads i think a lot of the sayings get used by locals/neighboring areas ❤️