your parents silly sayings

[mygirlsmum]

what sayings do you find yourself saying to your kids that your parents said to you even though they dont make any sense
eg choke up chicken

I certainly don't say it to my own children for reasons that are all too obvious, but mine used to say 'Last one upstairs is a nig nog'

'up the dolly dancers' (stairs)

What??????????

PMSL @ nig nog - thats shocking

The only one I remember is shake a leg

My dad says to ds 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice it smells a funny colour'

And he does the dog jaw thing, also if ds wants him to play he says 'I can't, I ahve abone in my leg'

All the above he used when I was a kid. Bless him, love him to bits.

My mum talks about chish and fips, which I've found myself doing! "Apples and pears" instead of stairs.
Lots of other silly things that I can't remember now.

up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
put the plug in the hole (when she wanted the door shut!)
A walk round the table (if you asked her what was for pudding)

guts for garters which i dont repeat to mind dear dc.odd saying!

My mom used to call poo "grunt" I hated this, I still hate it actually

born in a barn?
when you left the door open

If you don't eat that you wont get hairs on your chest!!

I don't want hairs on my chest thanks

'an apple a day keeps the dr away'

(you probably need 10 now)

whenever my son asks me where something is that he can't find I sometimes say 'It's up in Nelly's room behind the wallpaper'

My parents used to say this all the time and I always wondered who the hell Nelly was!

"sack of cinders" (when we asked her what we were getting for Christmas) or "a slap round the face with a wet fish" or "a walk round the table" (???)
These were sayings by my mum, aunt and grandma - I can't remember who said what now, but I think me and my cousins got the same all in all!

LieselVentouse - I actually had to give my dad a stern lecture when I heard him say it to my children! He couldn't understand why I was making such a fuss - 'It's only an expression...'

"Been to see a man about a dog"
I always hoped that it was true

Don't come running to me when you break your leg!

You ought to save those (sweets, usually) for when you haven't got any.....

Not ones I use with our kids, but I was chuckling to myself just now at:
"Dad, can I go out on my bike?"
"Bike! I'll give you bike!" or "I'll bike you in a minute!"
and
"Mum, what's for dinner?"
"A kick round the dresser..."
(happy days! )

I say Choke Up Chicken to mine too mygirlsmum

Mostly I find myself repeating some of the colourful and unsuitable blasphemies she imported from Dublin in the 1950s

but what I do not say is

"I'm your mother. If I don't tell you no-one will". This always followed some scathing critique of appearance/life choice/personality

It's not a saying more a way of speaking, but my mother always says 'I'll be there now, in a minute'

Kittypants, I told my son that I'd "have his guts for garters" the other day and he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard...I just put my head in my hands in the realisation that I am definitely becoming my mother...

If we ever tried to catch my dad out napping on the sofa he would deny it adamantly and claim that he was "inspecting the insides of his eyelids".

I don't know what Choke Up Chicken means

My mum used to say

"Wait and See" (response to wanting to know pretty much anything really - I have no idea why she couldn't just tell us what we were having for frigging dinner. It's not like "Stew" was such a surprise)

DrDaddy we also had "I'll XXXX you in a minute" in abundance!