Family Sayings

[biggs682]

i can remember quite clearly from my childhood days that when ever any of us asked where we were or where somebody else was we would always get the following reply : Just coming over Courtaulds Bridge , which i always presumed to be in my birth town Coventry .

I used the saying for the first time for ages a couple of days ago to my mum and she couldnt believe i remembered it .

 

[Hugh Manatee]

My dad would always say of something that had broken or worn out that it had, " Gone home."

Of course being broad Devonian he wouldn't have bothered with the H in home.

For all I know he still says it. I'll ask later if I phone.

 

[Sharky]

Can't quite remember the phrase we used, but when somebody was standing in front of the TV, blocking the view, we would say something like "hey, we're not at Pilks now".

"Pilks" referring to the glass manufacturer and not being able to see through somebody.
Could be a saying local to St Helens.

 

[numbnuts]

The only sayings I got from my father was "no"

 

[screenman]

Don't put off to tomorrow what you can do today, is one I passed on to my kids, not that they take any notice of it.

From my Dad, if you want a job doing give it to a busy man, which coming from somebody who made doing nothing an art form I know not where he got it from.

 

[Dave 123]

My dad...

A load of shite (long before Jim Royle, who he looked just like)
My arse
We don't serve poison in this house
It'll be there for your breakfast
What do you think this is, Mulligans mansion (this meant "turn the lights off")
I'll give it you 7 lace holes deep (a boot up your arse)

I'll probably think of many more.

 

[ColinJ]

I think we've done this before, and I got no answer that time, but my dad used to say of a person who was ignorant of some particular subject, 'He doesn't know A from a ball's foot.' I've never had the faintest idea what it meant.

Apparently the saying should have been "He doesn't know a B from a bull's foot" but I have never heard of that either. Googling found THIS, which suggests that it is not something that he made up!

 

[PaulSB]

"Strange but true" was used regularly in our house when the kids were young. Comes from the TV programme of the same name which my, then, 7 year old thought was the fount of all knowledge. It used to wind up the eldest lad no end!

My Dad used "put the wood in the hole" which I guess was fairly common along with "were you born in a barn?"

 

[Easytigers]

My dad was a builder and was always weighing up whether things were 'square'. We often heard him muttering the phrase, "It's leaning towards Jim's mothers." and generally tutting lots. No idea who Jim was!
If anything wasn't a good 'fit' he'd also moan that it was, "like an egg in a bucket."
My favourite two are for when things are rare and he'd say they're, "like hen's teeth" or "like rocking horse manure"!!!

 

[Mrs M]

MIL's favourite saying was, "that's you out the will".
She wasn't joking.
We don't care.

 

[wheresthetorch]

"Chilly for June" on a cold day, whatever the month.

 

[MrPie]

Whenever we argued over what to watch on the telly we always got 'I pay the TV licence', meaning it was always Mum's choice.
'My house, my rules. If you don't like it then you know where the door is'.....great parenting skills! I take great pleasure in rolling this one out when the crinklies visit some 25 years later.
'were you born in a park?'....i.e. it's cold, close the door.

 

[s7ephanie]

my mum told me 'to keep me hand on me appenny;

 

[pplpilot]

in the thickest black country accent - '

mind the oss's on that thing...'

was one that great gran used to come out with when dad used to turn up at her house on his motorbike, she was bought up in a time when there was very little in the way of motorised vehicles and I dare say that the sight and sound of motor cars and bikes could alarm still horse drawn vehicles, she went on to live till 105

 

[Hyslop]

My aunt, a lady of some refinement,when in shall we say, a stressful situation used to say " Oh go to Blackwell"(pronounced Bleckle).Quite why we were all to go to another part of Carlisle,and exactly how all this started.no one ever knew.She used to say it quite a lot when her husband was around though,that I do remember.