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

My auntie used to say "minesture" (pro "my-n-sture") instead of "mind you", not sure where it comes from.

Also if we asked what was for dinner my mum would say "a run around the table and a bite off block" - eh?????

Umm right ok

Up the marble arch - stairs to bed
Stop acting the goat
Stand by your beds - when we are leaving somewhere!

ahhh the curse of the parent!

Ohh and my fav " you just wait till your father gets home"

my MIL sees a cloudy sky and says it is "black over Bill's mother's" - when I first met her I thought she was talking about a real place.

Tnog youve reminded me of one that I do still use "wheres ....." Answer "hanging from my lip shouting Tarzan"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We used to get when asking what was for dinner,' Fried snowballs and Ifits (If its in the cupboard you can have some, and yea I do say it to mine.

'Better than a slap on the belly with a wet fish'

"Airy pie and windy pudding" when we asked whats for tea.
"see you in the week if I dont see you through the window"
" I'll knock you back into next week" when naughty, nice eh!

"I'll give you a long knock" or "a chin pie" my grandad used to say.

From MIL to ds when he used to take fruit out of the fruit bowl as a child (in a house with very little money "Do you think they grow on trees?"

Par Cark = Car Park
Squiggle = squirrel
I'll give you something to cry about - already crying at that point!!
You'll have someone's eye out with that - that beind something like a bucket???!

Just some of the mixed messages!!

Are your legs painted on?

My Dad when I asked hi to fetch something for me.

Don't get me started. These came from my great grandma, via my grandad, and then to me via my mum:

If I asked why - "Y is a crooked letter and you can't straighten it."
If I asked what - "What? She said, as the cock flew at her."
If I asked what the time was - "Half past a quarter to just gone, knocked down a Bobby at the Cross."
If I asked where someone had gone, or where something was - "Bootle - where the ducks fly backwards to keep the sun out of their eyes."
The response to "What's for tea?" was "Jibblyops and Jawbones."
The wooden hill to Bedfordshire, or Apples and Pears, were stairs.

And yes, I do use some of them on my poor, confused dses.

they were probably drug running or something

my father never gave me a straight answer about where he was going, I grew up believing there was some kind of conspiracy going on

If I was crying I'd get told I'd be given 'something to cry about' in a minute.

If you asked where anyone was going you'd get the reply "There and back to see how far it is"

When I was young my mum used to get me to blow my nose then say 'oh that was feeble' - I then believed that snot was called feeble!

When I used to dress up to go out my Dad used to say'Look at her what a smasher,two fried eggs and a gammon rasher'.
Yes I remember asking whats for tea and my MUm saying'air pie'. Say that to my boys too.
Yeah and the 'gone to see a man about a dog/horse. I used to wiish it was true too

Your room is a midden!

You look like the wreck of the Hesperus!