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cuddlepop
17-Feb-08, 18:06
It one of those Sundays that you spend reminising over your forgotton childhood and things your mother use to say.
"you born in a park?
"you look like granny Mutch"
Shut your mouth and eat your food"
"tummble your wilkies"
There's loads.....
What do you remember your mammy saying?
I dont use any of these expressions anymore,wonder how many more will be lost.:eek:

Dadie
17-Feb-08, 18:08
if you break your leg dont come running to me

karia
17-Feb-08, 18:12
"tummble your wilkies"

Go on Cuddlepop...explain that one to me?:D

cuddlepop
17-Feb-08, 18:16
Go on Cuddlepop...explain that one to me?:D


You put your head down first and the roll your whole body over it,without breaking your neck...:lol:

trix
17-Feb-08, 18:16
''dina contradict me, choost do as yer telt.....''

at's probly a common ayne but its 'e ayne i member 'e most :lol:

karia
17-Feb-08, 18:19
You put your head down first and the roll your whole body over it,without breaking your neck...:lol:

Thanks....I'll give it a go after dinner!:lol:

rupert
17-Feb-08, 18:19
My nanna, bless her, used to say that she thought her face was like a 'workhouse pudden been sat on'!! I thought she was lovely to look at.

DeHaviLand
17-Feb-08, 18:25
Thanks....I'll give it a go after dinner!:lol:

Also known as a dokey Karia

unicorn
17-Feb-08, 18:27
do as I say, not do as I do
pull your socks up
do you want a looger

cuddlepop
17-Feb-08, 18:29
"you could talk the hind legs off a donkey."
"its ben the room"
"piece and jam for tea"
"take a play piece"

I feel like 5 again.....:lol:

karia
17-Feb-08, 18:30
Also known as a dokey Karia

Thanks DeHaviland..if I am going to do myself grave physical injury I want as many names for what I was doing as possible!;)

helenwyler
17-Feb-08, 18:32
Use your loaf!

Where's your gumption?

Faintheart never won fair lady!:eek:

At the time, I had neither the 'loaf' nor the 'gumption' to point out that I was not interested in 'fair ladies';).

Tugmistress
17-Feb-08, 18:35
when asking what was for dinner, the standard reply was "bee's knee's, chickens eye lasses and sick sucked through sweaty socks with a straw" this has carried on and the neep is still told it now lol

sure i'll think of another one or two before the evening is out lol

paris
17-Feb-08, 18:52
Don't wear them jeans yet they need airing, your end up with arthritis when your older........how true she was,
You wait till your my age then youll see ! see what ?? LOL jan x

ANNIE
17-Feb-08, 18:55
dont sit on the cold doorstep it'll give you piles

trix
17-Feb-08, 18:57
Also known as a dokey Karia

so fits a 'heelder beelder' then?? :lol:

is 'at 'e same thing?

Thumper
17-Feb-08, 18:58
piles of what? ;) x

floyed
17-Feb-08, 18:59
'Dinna ye back chat me ma lady'
'Dont sit on the cold ground you will get piles' lol!
'Dont pee in the swimming pool it will turn blue'!
'In my day......
'when i was wee....

Thumper
17-Feb-08, 19:03
My Mum used to say I will slap that smirk on to the other side of your face :eek: x

justine
17-Feb-08, 19:03
well unfortunately for me it was where the hell did that teenager come from.She sent us away when i was five and took me again when i was 15.spent it all in boarding school..

young_fishin_neep
17-Feb-08, 19:03
when asking what was for dinner, the standard reply was "bee's knee's, chickens eye lasses and sick sucked through sweaty socks with a straw" this has carried on and the neep is still told it now lol

sure i'll think of another one or two before the evening is out lol

aye ya tell me it and i still cant say it its a right tounge twister!

kazzii xxxx

young_fishin_neep
17-Feb-08, 19:05
well unfortunately for me it was where the hell did that teenager come from.She sent us away when i was five and took me again when i was 15.spent it all in boarding school..


i would love to go to boarding school always said i would, mum said if she won the lottery she would send me, its a bit late now :(


kazzii xxxxxxx

justine
17-Feb-08, 19:06
'Dinna ye back chat me ma lady'
'Dont sit on the cold ground you will get piles' lol!
'Dont pee in the swimming pool it will turn blue'!
'In my day......
'when i was wee....


There is some truth to the piles one..I now suffer from them badly

karia
17-Feb-08, 19:07
well unfortunately for me it was where the hell did that teenager come from.She sent us away when i was five and took me again when i was 15.spent it all in boarding school..

I'd say that was her misfortune Justine. xx

justine
17-Feb-08, 19:08
i would love to go to boarding school always said i would, mum said if she won the lottery she would send me, its a bit late now :(


kazzii xxxxxxx
No hun you wouldnt..The education is fine but the lonliness is horrendous. believe me i cant bring back 10 years away from my parents...But then it did make me more indipendent...

young_fishin_neep
17-Feb-08, 19:10
im realy independant anyway always have been thats why i think i wanted to go, i supose the fact me n mum never used to get along influenced my decision to

kazzii xxxx

scorrie
17-Feb-08, 19:12
Here are some I have heard my Mum say but never heard anywhere else:-

"I hed a dream that my erse was an orange, and ye were sookin ed"

"He must of seen his erse and leked e colour o' ed"

"Will ye sit doon, yer goin' roond and roond ere lek a turd in a pish pot"
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Hardly Wullie Shakespeare but they have stuck in my mind since childhood.

floyed
17-Feb-08, 19:14
Here are some I have heard my Mum say but never heard anywhere else:-

"I hed a dream that my erse was an orange, and ye were sookin ed"

"He must of seen his erse and leked e colour o' ed"

"Will ye sit doon, yer goin' roond and roond ere lek a turd in a pish pot"
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Hardly Wullie Shakespeare but they have stuck in my mind since childhood.


HAHAHAHA cana stop laughing at the third one lol:lol:

alanatkie
17-Feb-08, 19:15
you make a better door than a window

karia
17-Feb-08, 19:18
Here are some I have heard my Mum say but never heard anywhere else:-

"I hed a dream that my erse was an orange, and ye were sookin ed"

"He must of seen his erse and leked e colour o' ed"

"Will ye sit doon, yer goin' roond and roond ere lek a turd in a pish pot"
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With all respect to Mrs Scorrie of this parish...

...................................I'm sensing a bit of a theme here![lol]

justine
17-Feb-08, 19:18
I'd say that was her misfortune Justine. xx


She is paying for it now.I have nothing to do with my family.They live in cambridge which is too close.I know it sounds sad but i dread it if she ever phones me up..And i know some will think i am wrong to think this but if i never see her again i would be glad..Horrible woman....

Angela
17-Feb-08, 19:25
My mum wasn't a very hands-on mother to put it mildly, but my granny and aunties more than made up for that with dos and don'ts and other sayings....e.g.

30 chews to each bite
take your elbows off that table
don't you go out with wet hair, you'll catch a chill
pull your socks up
you could hear the grass grow!
you'll never make a diplomat...

and a couple from when I was a bit older-

you're turning day into night the hours you're keeping
and
we were just about to send out a search party for you!

Most of them ended up with a 'my lady' tagged onto the end......:roll: ;)

cuddlepop
17-Feb-08, 19:30
Oh remembered some more..

Do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat.
Do you think I button up the back

Usually a wee fib was involved.;)

highlander
17-Feb-08, 19:32
Can you no take a telling
make your mind up, or i will do it for you
wait till your faither comes home!
there is so many on here that has already been said, it takes back painful memories lol

sweetpea
17-Feb-08, 19:41
If the wind changes your face will stick like that!
Eat this, It'll put hairs on your chest!:eek:
Eat the fat off your chop, it'll keep you warm in winter!
You'll be the death of me!

and as I got older

You'll never find a good man in a pub! LOL

nanoo
17-Feb-08, 19:43
Things i remember Mother saying,: 1. Do you think my head buttons up the back, 2.Do you see any green in there(whilst pulling the bottom of her eye down,) 3.Aye, and the band played believe it if you like.;)

Dadie
17-Feb-08, 19:45
when i was a teenager before i would go out my granny used to always ask wheres your simmit! you will catch your death going oot half dressed!

twiglet
17-Feb-08, 20:17
My mum used to threaten my brother that she'd 'chop him up and put what's left out for the dustmen' if he didn't behave himself. He was also convinced by mum that the ice cream van man was mums piano teacher, spose the music sounded a bit the same drifting up the stairs when you're 4, lol.

'Get the broom and broom it up!' was one of my favourites but mostly remember being told I was too quiet. Mother could talk the hind leg off a donkey and it's rude to interupt so it's no wonder I was quiet. :lol:

sweetpea
17-Feb-08, 20:22
Just thought of another one...

Wear clean undies in case you get run down by a bus!

justine
17-Feb-08, 20:27
you know i have been sat here for a while trying to think of any words that my mother used to say to me and you know i cant think of any that i could post on here.Am i the only one who had a mother like mine.Wicked, self rightious,obnoxious and damn right nasty..........

I would love to have heard some of the things said in this thread as i might have a better thought of my mum, but i cant think of anything nice she ever said to me..
When she used to phone me andf my hubby answered he would here the words, Is She There, never used my name..
Sorry if this is not the nice things that people are writing on here but i cant honestly think of a nice word that came out of her mouth...[evil]

miranda
17-Feb-08, 20:31
"dont sit too close to that telly your eyes will go square""

lol some of them on here are a blast from the past:lol:

Dadie
17-Feb-08, 20:45
I wants dont get
Do you want a hot backside
You know what thought did
Nothing...nothing..you will find nothing in an empty jamjar in the shed
Do you think im made of money
Do you think money grows on trees
You will know what its like when you have kids of your own
your face looks like a well skelped erse

Angela
17-Feb-08, 20:54
What time do you call this?
Take that look off your face
What's that face for?
Put that book away, you'll ruin your eyesight reading in that light
You wait.....you'll be old too one day....
When I was your age.....

How many of us mums have heard some of the very same words just pop out of our own mouths....and think, "I can't believe I just said that?" :confused :eek:

ett23
17-Feb-08, 20:59
One of my mum's old favourites was (said to me and my bro/sis) "If you two don't shut up I'm gonna knock your heads together". And invariably she did - ouch!!:eek::lol:

Dadie
17-Feb-08, 21:01
dont look at me in that tone of voice
i have seen a bigger cut on the end of my nose/pinkie
did you leave a hole in the road (when coming in with grazed knees)
i will count to three and if you havent stopped that.....1....2....21/2 (didnt often get to three)

skinnydog
17-Feb-08, 21:13
A minute on the lips, a life time on the hips. Just as you were finishing a really tasty bun or something equally as healthy!!

helenwyler
17-Feb-08, 21:18
Take that look off your face


How many of us mums have heard some of the very same words just pop out of our own mouths....and think, "I can't believe I just said that?"

Oooh yes, I remember that kind of remark Angela, though my mum used to say 'Wipe that look off your face'

And only yesterday I said to my youngest 'Use your loaf!' Goodness knows why that expression...I haven't said it in years. And she had no idea what I meant, so I had to explain... and then we both fell into helpless giggles[lol].

Not enough discipline in my house!:eek:

Sapphire2803
17-Feb-08, 21:36
lmao we were always told "fried monkey brains and sparrow guts"


when asking what was for dinner, the standard reply was "bee's knee's, chickens eye lasses and sick sucked through sweaty socks with a straw" this has carried on and the neep is still told it now lol

sure i'll think of another one or two before the evening is out lol

My Auntie Birdie used to say... Sheeps thing with a ningin on it! I still say that one)
Auntie Nancy's was... Poo with sugar on (not so polite tho)


If you asked my Gran how old she was, she'd say... I'm as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

Tilter
17-Feb-08, 21:36
"Three kicks at the pantry door" (in response to What's For Dinner?)

"Don't pull that face - it'll set in this wind."

"Put that pet lip in."

"We didn't have that much sugar to waste IN THE WAR."

"Have you got St Vitus' Dance?"

"You'll grow a pig's snout if you pick your nose." (I actually believed this.)

"You're worse than a Mudiwarp" or "You're worse than a Wifflo Gadget." (Still to this day don't know what these are.)

Sapphire2803
17-Feb-08, 21:45
My Mum wasn't one for sayings, they came from the rest of the family, all I can remember from Mum is:
Close your mouth when you're eating. (How would I get the food in?)
Elbows off the table.
Don't come crying to me when (whatever the terrible mishap would be)
I'll give you a good hiding
Come here till I slap you (why oh why did I follow that order??!)

hell raizer
17-Feb-08, 21:49
reply to when i asked whats for dinner was - point, after 61 yrs i still cant work out what my mother meant. :confused

sassylass
17-Feb-08, 21:50
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times...don't exaggerate.

kas
17-Feb-08, 21:58
Do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat.

That was one of my Dads classics.
Hilarious thinking about it now.

As far as Mums go I am surprised no one has mentioned
Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about.

cuddlepop
17-Feb-08, 22:03
Another favourite mum use to confuse me with was if i kept going on about wanting something the reply would be
"you'll get allright, the first wet Sunday in the middle of the week.";)

These sayings bring back so many memories,very often with a sore backside.:lol:

miranda
17-Feb-08, 22:03
or..eat your crusts they'll make your hair curly!

if you dont eat your tea youll get it for supper/breakfast!!
:lol::lol:

Thumper
17-Feb-08, 22:22
Best one I ever heard and it isnt really a saying but still reduces me to tears when I think about it was.....If your dad was alive he would be spinning in his grave!..she huffed for days for me laughing at that one,and no it wasnt my Dad x

balto
17-Feb-08, 22:49
my dad used to say to me when i was biting my nail "you'll be at your elbows soon. "where you born in a park" no a hospital with swinging doors lol

quiteone
18-Feb-08, 00:19
haha my mum used to say "just wait til ur dad comes home! (he was always late home) "if i have to come up those stairs u can look out(we knew she wouldna thu) "im not gona tell u again"(for the 10th time) this is the last time im gona tell u(for the 10th time):lol: and years on i say the same to my child..............i catch myself saying it and smile ;)

carasmam
18-Feb-08, 00:24
If I told a wee fib she used to say (and still does:D) "do you think I'm a scone o yesterdays baking"

Buttercup
18-Feb-08, 00:27
"Don't be such a gawpas" (Don't be so stupid)
"It's like lookan for hen's teeth" (It's impossible)
"Am no as green as am cabbage lookan" (I'm not as stupid as you seem to think)
"It's like pullan' teeth" (said when she had to drag a story out of us)
"You're NOT going over the door in a skirt like THAT!" (when mini skirt's first came in)[lol]
"You'll be laughan' on the other side of your face when your Dad gets home, ma lady"

My granny always told us "Don't drink warm water or you'll get worms"! :eek:

Buttercup
18-Feb-08, 00:50
Just remembered this one, said about someone having a long lie ~ though not a saying of my mother's I hasten to add.
"He's chust lek an ingin, its' e downg 'at gets him up" (if it wasn't that they needed the loo, they'd be in bed all day) [lol]

Foxy
18-Feb-08, 01:21
We're ye born in a barn.

If ye dinna do what your told you won't be able to sit on your backside for a week.

Stop picking your nose or you'll remove your brains.

Eat your dinner it'll put hairs on your chest like barbed wire. (i was glad it didn't as i'm female) [lol]

carasmam
18-Feb-08, 02:10
[QUOTE=Buttercup;341308]"You're NOT going over the door in a skirt like THAT!" (when mini skirt's first came in)[lol]

That wasn't a skirt - that was a belt lol

and Foxy I would've had hairs on my chest lek stalks o rhubarb :eek:

horse
18-Feb-08, 07:38
stop that crying or i'll give you something to cry for
when asking for money she would say do you think my name is carnaige
when i was being a moody teenager and gurnier than usual she would say you only get one mam you'll miss me when I'm gone ( she was right )

Dusty
18-Feb-08, 09:19
When talking about someone who was overly "chatty";

"Yon wiz vaccinated wi a gramaphone needle"!

honey
18-Feb-08, 13:21
"its not what you say, its the way you say it"

this is the one that stuck with me.. but there are laods, the funniest ones are when i catch myself saying them to my eldest son, like when hes been moaning at me for ages to do something, ill say

"do what you want, you will anyways"

then laugh at myself cause i used to tease my Mam for saying it to me...

nanoo
18-Feb-08, 13:42
I remember another one and it took me some time to figure it all out,(maybe i'm din though.) My mother was talking to a neighbour(i was about 12 at the time) as a lassie walked past them, she was about 25, i think. Mum said to the neighbour, Aye, she was that busy looking for a tile hat, she let aw the bunnets go by. The lassie in question is, as far as i know, a spinster to this day.:lol:

cuddlepop
18-Feb-08, 14:34
When taking about someone who was rather above herself.
"she's all fur coat and na knickers":lol:

Angela
18-Feb-08, 14:55
When taking about someone who was rather above herself.
"she's all fur coat and na knickers":lol:


lol, cp, that's the expression used by us Edinburghers for the folks of the Morningside area - where their accent is traditionally so orflly refained that -old joke! - their coal used to be delivered in 'sex' [lol]

Anne x
18-Feb-08, 14:56
Mind you have a neck to wash as well it is like the back of the grate !!!

First time I got highlights in my hair she said to Dad she has come home and looks like a Pie bald pony !!!

If your ears were supposed to have holes you would of been born with them !!

Listening to music on my very treasured Transistor radio if you dont turn that racket off I will come up there and pull the plug out !!!!

TBH
18-Feb-08, 14:58
lol, cp, that's the expression used by us Edinburghers for the folks of the Morningside area - where their accent is traditionally so orflly refained that -old joke! - their coal used to be delivered in 'sex' [lol]The posh Edinburgh streets of pride in poverty. The wifies used to put a pack of omo in the window. Old Mans Out:lol:

Dusty
18-Feb-08, 15:27
lol, cp, that's the expression used by us Edinburghers for the folks of the Morningside area - where their accent is traditionally so orflly refained that -old joke! - their coal used to be delivered in 'sex' [lol]

.....and a creche is whit happins when twa cars bump intae each ither :lol:

honey
18-Feb-08, 15:31
if anyone has watched Peter Kays live stand up shows, there are loads of stuff in there taht is exactly they way it was for most people i know.

one part is when his sister is upstairs dancing to chart music and thumping around, he says their dad shouts up (along the lines of)

"dont make me come up there lady jane"

i wathed this with my mam and laughed at the recognition in her face!! :lol:

highlander
18-Feb-08, 15:49
A warning what was given before going to visit anyone

Danna open yere mooth and let your belly rumble

Stop beating about the bush

Dont try pulling the wool over my eyes

Heres a link to some of the old sayings and thier meanings
http://www.yelvertonbrook.com.au/page100223050.aspx

northangel30
18-Feb-08, 16:54
The one I remember when we played "dangerous" games was...

"If ye fall an break yer leg dinnie come runnin tae me"

hell raizer
18-Feb-08, 16:55
another one was - wash your ears you could plant tatties in them :lol:

cuddlepop
18-Feb-08, 16:57
It was rather cruel but because I was tall and skinny when i was younger I use to get called
"jenny long legs with big banana feet":(

northangel30
18-Feb-08, 17:00
"Eat yer carrots it will help ye see in the dark"

Ever seen a rabbit wi glasses??????????:roll:

Thumper
18-Feb-08, 17:05
Another one was.....she's got a mouth on her like Smoo Cave :eek: x

cuddlepop
18-Feb-08, 17:07
Thumper one more and your a 1k orger wooooo:D

Thumper
18-Feb-08, 17:11
OOOHHHH!!!! So I am whoo hoo! :) x

honey
18-Feb-08, 17:16
dont make funny faces, if the wind changes you'll stay like that!

cuddlepop
18-Feb-08, 18:23
If you were really hungry.
"so hungry I could eat a scaby headed whaen"
If you weren't goung any holidays it was
hameldaeme"
Some brilliant comments here.:D

Dusty
19-Feb-08, 08:56
Remembered another from my Mum.

Aye, yer that sherp ye'll cut yersel yin o thae days.

One from my Dad. (but I can't write the Caithness dialect).

If everybody had their own, you would have nothing.

Lolabelle
19-Feb-08, 11:07
when asking what was for dinner, the standard reply was "bee's knee's, chickens eye lasses and sick sucked through sweaty socks with a straw" this has carried on and the neep is still told it now lol

sure i'll think of another one or two before the evening is out lol

We were told " bread and butter and duck under the table"

and " Pig poo and gobbledy goop"

I think i would prefer the first :eek:

morganria
19-Feb-08, 11:59
'If you're no on e road ye canna get a lift '- meaning if you don't try something you've no chance

'You've got a mooth lek a torn slipper' - so I'm told !!!!!!!!!

NLP
19-Feb-08, 15:08
Only fools and horses have bairns,
don't know what that said about her she had 6 bairns.LOL

munchkin
19-Feb-08, 17:40
mam can i go down the water quote dont come back here drowned :D

Bananas
19-Feb-08, 20:55
My mother was from deepest Suffolk, it was not what she said but how she pronounced it. When watching football and a save was make, she would say things like look at the gooolie (a bit like the Norfolk bootiful). So each week we were treated goolies by the dozen.

Tilter
20-Feb-08, 00:08
Going by these posts I think all our mothers must be related. They all have the same language skills anyway.