words and phrases that your mum used

[johnnyowen]

if my mum was threatening to belt me she would say i was "heading for a go a-longer" even today she says "youre not too big to get a go a-longer" any more examples of strange things your mum used to say ??

[christine]

my mam use to say ,come here while i hit ya yeah rite or go shop and ill count how long you are xxxxxxchris

[johnnyowen]

HI CHRISTINE....MY DAD USED TO SEND ME TO THE SHOP FOR HIS WOODBINES AND WOULD ALWAYS SAY RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN AND I'LL TIME YOU....WORKED EVERY TIME.

[tony38337]

My Mam, when anything was a certainty used to say "As sure as eggs is eggs"

Tony T

[Lisa]

Hi Johnny, That one made me laugh about your dad and Woodbines. My dad used to get packets of five (!) from our local sweet shop. My brother got caught buying cigarettes "for my dad" when he'd given up smoking. He got a good wallopping for that one.......

[Lisa]

Hi Chris, What would we do without your sense of humour. I chuckle every time I read your postings....... ;D ;D Chris, you are a ONE-OFF........

[Lisa]

Hi Johhny, My dad used to call me a PYECAN if I got anything wrong. Anyone know what that means?

[johnnyowen]

hi lisa i remember my auntie ethel sending me to the corner shop for one park drive and one match !!!! thats when people were really skint

[johnnyowen]

my dad used to say pyecan no idea what it means but its a great word.....if he told me to do something and i forgot he would say "b****y hell lesley welsh strikes again" it was only a few years ago that i found out that lesley welsh was "the memory man"

[Lisa]

Hi Johnny, I dont even think they sell cigarettes now in fives and tens, do they? Must have been hard-up to buy ONE cigarette and ONE match. BUT werent we all poor then? I think we were but it didnt seem like it as we were all the same......

[johnnyowen]

what was the saying ?? you could leave your doors open cos nobody had nowt worth stealing

[christine]

thanks lisa you are kind, johny you could leave your door open in them days not like now?they av your eyelashes off if they could xxxxchris

[marjorie]

If i played out longer than i should, my mam always said to me , i knew your belly would bring you home.

[marjorie]

When i was about 14-15 hanging around brookhouse flats with my mates,ladding it, if i stayed out a bit later than i should my mam would come looking for me,she would shout up the flats Marjorieeeeeeeeee! she well showed me up, asi got near her she would say i'll stop your gallop girl, what gallop i was only talking,that made her mad ,stay in tomorrow till you learn to tell the time.

[johnnyowen]

it was great how everybodys mum had the knack of shouting you in from the doorstep starting quite low then getting really high,,jooohnn !!!! you could hear it from miles away

my mum used to say "do you want a good hiding " oh yes please mam

[marjorie]

I CAN REMEMBER IF MY MAM WANTED SOMETHING REALLY QUICKLY FROM THE SHOP SHE USED TO SAY RUN LIKE THE DEVIL'S AFTER YOU, SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO TIME ME I WAS THERE AND BACK QUICKER THAN JACK FLASH.WHEN I GREW UP AND TOLD HER IT WAS A BAD THING TO SAY TO A CHILD SHE JUST LAUGHED, I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A BIT FUNNY.

[Lisa]

Hi Tommy, Thanks for sharing that with us. Sounds like it was really tough for you when you were young, but look how you've turned out? I wonder what it is that makes us all SURVIVORS and that we all manage, somehow, to turn difficult childhoods into ok adulthoods. It just shows how resilient we all are. From what I gather from chatting to you Tommy, there's a sensitive side to you that many men would give their right arm to possess. Stay as sweet as you are, Tommy, and my TftD is quite appropriate for your posting.

[wynwilliams]

my dad used to send me for 5 woodbine and an ounce of thick twist that was pipe tobacco and l could spend tuppence on myself, used to get a penny or a tuppenny chew and the cake shop had penny loaves or l,d buy the dandy and beano or a bigger comic l think it was called tip top or something like that. l remember spending all the change eightpence and getting into all sorts of trouble from my dad for doing so

[wynwilliams]

::)trying ti find out how to put smiley faces on messages, will get it soon

[wynwilliams]

:-*think l got it, well heres hopeing anyway, my dad phrase was well,l,ll go up our stairs or flippin nora

[wynwilliams]

:'(seem to be talking to myself,but it is 2.30 in the afternoon right now here in aussie. should stay up one night when your all on and talk to you. the time difference is 9 hours and soon it will be 11 hours when we do daylight saving, we go forward and you go back one hour, anyway will go and water the garden today is one of the days that we can, the other day being sunday

[Casso]

Love some of these old sayings. I had an Auntie who used "Salt me God" as an expletive, at least that's what it sounded like.
When I was a kid and it was time for bed, it was "Up the dancers"
while an expression of astonishment was "I'll go to the foot of our stairs"
Cass

[marie fernandes]

Hi Casso, I think your Auntie was really saying "So help me God" in a Mankie accent. maybe!!
I dont think the young ones today keep up with the sayings of old, its all, IN IT, AND WAN IT.

marie

[Danny]

If my Mum took a dislike to someone she would say " he wants hitting with a stocking full of hot s**t "
She also had a saying, the further a monkey goes up a tree,the more of his bum you can see.

[kath]

my dad
if he was annoyed he used to say..as sure as god made little apples ill swing for you..

every nite we always said goodnite god bless..
when my kids were young id say good nite god bless love you all the world and ten bob.
there all married now and we still say it..
and to the grandchildren.

kathxx

[Lisa]

Hi Kath, Gosh, its lovely to see you back on board, so to speak. Nice to hear what you say to your children/grandchildren. I used to say to my daughter "Night,Night, sleep tight, watch the bugs dont bite" or "I love you more than you know". My dad used to say to me at bedtime "Come on lady, up the dancers" or "Up the Apple and Pears). As soon as the 9 o'clock news came on and I heard the music I knew he was going to say it. No matter what age I was, I had to be in bed by 9pm.

[tony38337]

I sure remember up the dancers, my Mam would also say "Up the wooden hill"

Tony T

[bluejade]

i can remember my gran when you were naughty saying .....hold your hand out......then with your hand outstretched she would gently pat the palm of the hands singing.....hold your hand out you naughty girl.....if she said damm then you knew you had gone too far, she was a loveing gran.... but sayin that , she was not averse to pouring a cold pot of unwanted tea over your head if you were throwing a tantrum.......and BOY! did i throw a few

[fluffymoat4]

I remember when my brother was climbing trees and my mum would shout "if you fall and break your neck I'll b****y kill you!"
My Dad used to ask "Do you want a good hiding?"
My Dad also used to say "If you ask you won't get but if you don't ask then you don't want" I never got my head round that one!

[fluffymoat4]

My dad used to call us a "piecost" and if you asked "wot's a piecost" - he'd say "about 2 bob at the chip shop!"