Great Family sayings

[Blandmum]

I can think of two in our family.

My dad, of money not being able to buy you happiness 'True, but it lets you be miserable in comfort'

My mother , over 'unplanned' pregnancies, 'If you don't want to go to Cardiff, Why get on the train?!'

What great family sayings do you family have?

Grensleeves, does your Dad know my boss?!

Whats for tea "Hairy Pie & custard."

When you asked my dad a question he would say "Would You like it in English,Russian,German or French and would reply NO in whatever the chosen language was.

My husbands mum & dad had a saying that they were just going upstairs to "find the cheque book" when really they were off up for a bit if the other!!(Another family phrase!)so nobody would disturb them.No wonder they had such a big family.

You'd make a better door than a window.
Were you born in a field.
Put wood in hole.

When somebody disagrees you say "More shit than the Yorkshire show!
My favourite is shit with sugar on.My mum used to say that to me and I wouldn't dream of saying it to mine it just seems so awful now.

My FIL says "you'll not see it at 60 miles an hour!"
Comes from his days as a mechanic if they hadn't fixed something up to a high standard it didn't matter cos you 'd never notice when the car was moving!

Shake a leg is one of my personal faves along with get a wriggle on to get little ones to speed up.

Lulabelle my auntie always said Clunk Click every trip but she used it to tell us off when we'd left the door open in the living room as well!

When I was tiny (when my parents were still together) my dad used to get up every morning like a bear with a sore head, go to the back door, open it and stand there in his vest staring out at the world. Every morning he would shake his head, say "Fcking hell fire" and shut the door again. One morning he got up, went to the dorr, opened it, stared out and said "Bloody hell fire". My brother, aged about four, piped up from behind him "No, Dad - it's Fcking hell fire!!"

My late gran when talking about a particular bald tv personality would say "he has a head like a skating ring for flies"

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking

Just enough blue to make a pair of sailor's trousers (on sighting blue sky after a rainstorm)

Nice weather for ducks (chucking with rain)

Just scaring off the spiders (according to my godmother farting scares spiders!)

Oh my god, I sound just like my mother! (that's what she said, and now so do I)

I don't know where he got it from (maybe the Simpsons [blush ]but when ds was 3 he came out with a very deadpan ''I'm laughing on my inside'' which is now a catchphrase in our family when someone makes a really crap joke etc

of someone ugly dh will say -
got a face like a bull dog licking p*$% off stinging nettles
of a blunt knife -
you could ride bare-arsed to Coventry on that and not cut yourself
if any speaks about opening the door in their underwear / pyjamas etc -
didn't know you had a door in your underwear....

getting dark over our Bill's mothers is another local one to us, too

when asked where she was going, my mom would reply ( translation),'God's earth'.
family saying:let's hit the road , when going out.

What a great thread -
my dad's favourite: "A sturdy character is hammered and forged in the fires of adversity."
my mum's favourite "To thine ownself be true" (however, they didn't like it when I did!)
Others:
'All right ducks?'
'scuse bottom (farting)
'The shame without is better than the pain within' (farting again)
'Going to take my constitutional' (walk)
'Its colder than a witches tits'
'Choke up chicken' (coughing at the table)
(in response to 'where is x?') 'Where you left it." - absolutely infuriating!
One of my favourites (that I use with dh but not dd's)
'Sh*t or get off the pot' (eg. make a decision)

When my Dad first laid eyes on his first and only granddaughter he said (in Yorkshire accent) "Ooh you, I'd use your sh*t for toothpaste you're that cute" (sorry)

finn2, that is fantastic!

jura - my dad too! id forgotten all about that one...

my dm always said "dont come running to my when you fall off that and break both your legs"!!

Also, whos coat is that jacket hanging on the floor!!

When saying goodbye to someone and they said 'see you soon', my parents would add, ' aye, all being well an Joe stays poorly, we'll draw t'club brass 'a Friday.

Peachyclair, if we asked what colour something was, it was 'sky blue pink with purple dots on'.

'I'll warm your bottom for you' - (I'll thrash you)

'you'll be laughing on the other side of your face' (crying)

'This place is like Paddy's market' (a mess)

What's for tea? 'Just something I flang in the oven' or 'fly pie'.

eemie, we have paddy's market as well!

Others:

"A run round the table and a kick at the cat" means "Well, there's not much in for tea, kids".

"Not another word out of yis until we're in Ballybofey" means "Please be quiet, you're doing my head in, and no, since you ask, we're not actually going to Ballybofey. Be quiet anyway".

"A big Kilmacrennan whisper" means "practically shouting" (apologies to anyone here who's from Kilmacrennan).

oh yes my mum used to say that - 'just enough sky to make a dutchman's trousers' - fond memory of that.

and i love the farting to scare off the spiders - might try that!

This is a great thread, I know a few of these sayingy, and now that I am the sole English representative in my family down here I must pass them on to my chldren.