Me Mother/Father Always said

[Margaret Pilkington]

Chuck your muck where your love lies...... and if we were leaning on a grown up (like when you sit on the sofa) they would ask 'have you had your dinner'and when you said 'yes'..... they would say, 'well, lean on it then'

[Gayle]

You'll make a better door than a window - when you were stood in front of the tv or something.

[accymel]

Gawd i still use a lot of those phrazes, my lad is a very good door than a window & he never puts the 'wood in the hole' aka lives in a barn, another one is 'pick yer feet up off the floor' when one shuffles feet whilst walking, my dads particular fav saying is scruffy herbert, for looking scruffy, dunno where that comes from Oh & go & play on the railway lines/morway aka bog off & play out or find something to do - geee good job we never took it literally. Another one is engage the brain before tha gob - my eldest favourite not LOL!

[LancYorkYankee]

Said without saying: "If you're not perfecty, you're no good" (must get straight As, be the strongest, fastest, be able to hit a bloody curve ball in baseball, keep your room crystal cleqan etc., etc., etc ., etc., etc.,

[Lilly]

Anyone remember this song?My grandma used to sing it.

One two three allaira
I saw my sister Sarah
Sitting on a bumble-daira
Eating chocolate dainties

I always wondered what on earth is a bumble-daira? I would love to know if anyone can tell me!

[Margaret Pilkington]

bumble-aira (as I knew it) was a euphemism for BUM!

[Lilly]

Thanks Margaret...I never thought of that. Been wondering all these years!

[grannyclaret]

I just read all those posts again... it brings back lovely memories

[MUMMIBOO]

You look like nobody owns you!

Ill give you something to cry for in a minute!

[LancYorkYankee]

- Stop being such a wiseheimer,
- I'll brain you,
- You're a bunch of ungrateful wretches,
- Be Strong, Brave, Tough like an Indian,
- Hold out ya hand (for a slappin'),
- Why are such a rotten kid,
- Get in your room and pull down ya pants (For 3 - 5 lashes with the belt),
- You'll eat it and you'll like it,

Brian

[chrissy]

I once swallowed an orange pip and my mum said that an orange tree would grow inside me. I cryed and cryed when I went to bed that nite...I could imagine branches coming out of my ears and down my nose, and the worse thing about it was I thought to myself .... father christmas wont come any more.

[chrissy]

Originally Posted by ANNE

Oh, I got that one " Do has I say not as I do "
Another was, Wert tha born in a barn?

Or, put wood i th`iol

[chrissy]

My mum used to say to me if I didnt quite know what I was doing `tha r up and down like a duck i trollies

[katex]

Occassionally Mum would point that I was a 'sloppy swank' .. fur coat and no knickers .. or fur coat and dirty knickers with ladders in me tights ..

[Margaret Pilkington]

my Ma still calls that 'all top show and nothing underneath'......or occasionally, said in a very derogatory manner.....'holey drawers'