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Great Family sayings

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Blandmum · 07/03/2006 16:17

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?

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SiobhanW · 10/03/2006 15:33

BRILLIANT thread!!
We also had "what you see when you haven't got a gun" and "corporation pop"

"Every pound a prisoner" - for any tight git

And a personal favourite :

"Oops - piggy in the back garden" For a fart - My dd loves that!!

And for a pooh - "Dropping the Kids at the swimming baths"

Obviously very bowel consciuos parents!
We also had Family Hold Back FHB - mainly because there always seemed to be loads of people around - friends, family etc - mum really wasn't sure how many she had to cater for ... I've picked up that particular mantle now !!

SiobhanW · 10/03/2006 15:36

Ooooh - just remebered another - if anyone was whingeing for no proper reason ... " aah ... have you just been given cabbage on a hot plate? "

SiobhanW · 10/03/2006 15:36

Whoops - COLD Cabbage !!

booge · 11/03/2006 08:38

All joints on the table will be carved. (Grandpa)

Where er you be let the wind blow free for the keeping in of that was the death of me (Granny)

Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze (Dad)

Be sure your sins will find you out. (Mum)

ernest · 11/03/2006 13:21

Actually, my family were no fun at all looking at this thread. The main ones that keep coming back to me ar

"no buts..."

"I want never gets"
and
"If you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about"

None of there will be uttered by me, ever.

Greensleeves · 11/03/2006 14:59

My dad 's favourite remark on the parlous state of the human race was:

"Twarn't for women an' store-bought clothes..."

WickedViperWitch · 11/03/2006 15:24

On finding all the lights on "it's like the Blackpool illuminations in here!" - my mum. Dp has pointed out that no-one's that impressed by the Blackpool illuminations any more when I say it.

Raggydoll · 11/03/2006 15:39

My mom referring to my brother "hes out of his branch" I think she meant to say "out of his tree" although thinking about it this makes no sense either.

Mosschops30 · 11/03/2006 15:52

its like blackpool illuminations/crystal pallace
its a bit black o'er bill's mothers
'its not fair' .... 'its not raining either'
she looks three sheets to the wind

where the hell that last saying comes from I've no idea

dollydanderfluffofwillowbottom · 11/03/2006 16:45

she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down

theres chocolate at the top ( if my nan caught you picking your nose)

we're short of nowt we've got (my grandma)

Polgara2 · 11/03/2006 19:16

Oh yes we had 3 sheets to the wind too - and no ideas where from either!
Let's go Joe.
Hang on the bell Nelly - hold on.

Will ask Mum for some more - my memory's gone.

WideAwake · 11/03/2006 19:18

Thats not fat thats just beer (my dad about by beer keg)

WideAwake · 11/03/2006 19:19

How did you lose enough weight to be a size 14 then was it hard? (My Dad to fastasleep who is a size 8)

PwCocopops · 12/03/2006 08:47

Just read from another member Family Hold Back (FHB) to be used as a secret code when Mum thought food was running low when there were visitors - I thought my Mum invented it, have started to use it myself - great to know others are too.

Another saying we had was when it was raining and we didn't want to go out "you're not sugar you won't melt" - this is my first message - great idea

Blackduck · 12/03/2006 09:40

"Blackpool illuminations" - one of ours and I find myself muttering now as dp NEVER turns any lights off...

Neither use, nor ornament

Two speeds, dead slow and stop.

Would you be in my grave as quick? (said to someone who has pinched your seat/place)

"we'll go nap on it"??? It means something like that will do?

mandylifeboats · 12/03/2006 11:19

About as much use as a one-legged man in an a**e-kicking contest - DH's favourite

Greensleeves · 12/03/2006 13:30

My mother was much given to saying "I'll knock your block off", "I'll have your guts for garters" and "I'll bang your bl**dy heads together". I don't think I'll be immortalizing her "charm" for my own children!!GrinGrin

cat64 · 12/03/2006 14:41

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Miaou · 12/03/2006 15:11

From my mum "your parting is like the hind leg of a donkey" (when trying to do my own hair)

"you've burnt your boats now" (having asked for a treat then not been "good enough" to get it)

"I'll clatter the pair o' yer!!" (me and one db or other, arguing I daresay)

"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"

Can't think of any positive ones!

myturn · 12/03/2006 15:15

From me and my mum when anything goes wrong 'Well at least I'm not pregnant' - she had 5 and I had 4 children.

'Do you think I'm buttoned up the back?' from my dad.

My mum and all my sisters call periods 'things' We are always moaning about having or things.

mokola · 12/03/2006 19:54

Three sheets to the wind is "Pissed" as in they would have been washed and hung up to dry if pee'd on! Thats what I always thought anyway.
My gran used to say "dont be so passremarkable" if you were cheeky, also used to say "wersht" to describe a sour bitter taste.

ernest · 12/03/2006 20:18

that reminds me - alwasy told to "wisht up" ie shut up

When driving, if someone else driving badly mum always said "time ter mak yer mind up" "it's mak yer mind up time" or "gan canny, bonny lad" - the only time she'd give her accent and airing.

motherinferior · 12/03/2006 20:25

One of my father's many infuriating sayings is 'Life is real, life is earnest', apropos of nothing very much.

I hear myself saying it now Blush

chenin · 12/03/2006 20:51

My mother was totally un-pc. If she saw a black person, (most unusual as she lived in little village in Somerset) she would say in a loud voice "oooh, he's as black as a bag!".

If she saw someone who was very large, again in a loud voice would say "she's a big piece then!". Most embarrassing in hospital when the nurse attending to her was very heavy and black....!

If we had all eaten a huge meal, we would all lean back and say repeatedly TTT (which meant tummy touching table!) Who knows where that came from!

Greensleeves · 13/03/2006 08:13

Nah - "three sheets to the wind" is a sailing expression, it means you've got all your sails facing the wind so they're flapping about and you can't control the boat.