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.

If we used to complain about something, my dad would say, 'It's better than a slap in the face with a wet fish'.
Course you can Malcolm; I can't remember where this was from.

That's brought back a memory....course you can Malcolm. Maybe a TV advert?

yes, Vick Synex, years ago, memorable for Malcolm’s mum ‘bouncing’
down the stairs

"I'll take my hand off your face".

"If the wind changes your face will stay like that".

"Stop picking your nose or your head will cave in".

"I'll give you something to cry about..."

"You'll get square eyes".

"Shut up, you're giving my arse a sair heid".

We used to say this in Liverpool.
It goes back to the time when Bonnie Prince Charlie died.
He led the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745 in an attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
He died in 1788 in Rome.
He became a folk-hero and women mourned his passing by allowing their petticoats to show below their dresses

“I’m going to see a man about a dog” - my dad when he was off out, being evasive when asked by my brother and I where he was going.

“Stop acting the goat” - my dad telling my
brother to stop being silly.

”who’s she? The cat’s mother?” Said by my primary reception teacher in the mid 80s.

Thank you!! That’s so interesting!

My mother used to say
'giddy giddy gout, your shirt's hanging out' if we hadn't tucked our tops in.

I had an elderly aunt who used to say 'Never cut a roll or bun, because My Dear it is not done'

A family one we had as teens was if someone had run away we called it 'doing an Ian' after a friend ran off after his Dad forced him to cut his hair short. (He came back !)