Old Sayings or Jokey Phrases?.

[rose2008-2008]

I suddenly catch myself recently using old sayings that my father used to use rather than my mother!!.

My dad used to say,,,,,,,,,"Steady On Barker!!!!!!!,,,,.

"Coooooor Lummy!!! was another although i think it was a rephrase on Corrr Blimey!!.

"Hang On The Bell Nellie"   if i said HANG ON if he was walking too fast,, as i always said "Slow Down when i could not catch up. My dad was a fast walker and im told people called him The Greyhound!!!.

Has anyone else heard these before??.   LOL, LOl,..

Or can you remember your family having any Sayings or Phrases?...  

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

My Gran used to say either of the following if she was in disbelief over something

"love old Ireland" or 'love a duck' or " well blow me down"

A put me down for anyone that said anything foolish was "what a load of codswallop" 

Every Sunday lunch she used to say without fail - Alison please eat your lunch, what about all the starving Biafrans.  I had no idea who the Biafrans were at 3 years old but after she said that one day I said in a very serious voice 'ok please send it to them then'.  My Mum still laughs at that.  

[cookiecookuk]

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@ed_blackadder_1 wrote:

Cookie, My father always say it's gone dark over wills mothers and we thought it was a devon saying, obviously not.

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certainly not ed there is no more norfolk born and bred than us.

[10phizz]

I bet Merc knows of Juvvers, Gorgers, etc then ?

[merc1_clocks]

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@10phizz wrote:

I bet Merc knows of Juvvers, Gorgers, etc then ?

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 Luckily, we as a family, have never had juvvers ( wee boogers )

& gorgers are all settled in a wee hoosie - & stay there

[captainbovine]

EH?????

My Gran always said when I wouldn't eat my lunch, or breakfast...."you'll want that before it wants you"!!!!!!

[ed_blackadder_1]

My mother used the Biafrans on me at meal times too.

[2017clearout]

We had the Biafrans too - and blow me down.  My mother still says "b***** that for a game of soldiers" when something is too much effort (or "not worth the candle" 😉 ) and my father's classic is, "she's never been the same since she fell off the organ" (if someone says or does something daft) - NO idea what that's from!  (Though possibly a music hall song?)

My grandmother was all about "the wind'll change and you'll stay like that" (if we were pulling faces) as well as "well, life's not fair" (a hard lesson to learn at 2 1/2, and something my students, in their 20s, still seem unaware of!) - and my grandfather was always threatening to put salt on our tails.  (I remember some song about an ogo pogo, whose father was an earwig and mother was a whale, that involved salt on the tail, so maybe that's where it was from?)  Anyone else had those?

Perhaps, though, I just had hrash yet inventive grandparents, and parents who were unnecessarily foul-mouthed 😉

[2017clearout]

OOh, I've just found the Ogo Pogo song!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQE8T6Ip6Ic  

There's no end to the glories of youtube: now I just need to see if there's anything about falling off organs!

[ed_blackadder_1]

Yup most of them, game of soldiers, wind changing and lifes not fair.  We also had, when we were children when we said It's not fair, my parents would say not till September,  (which is when the fair came to town.)  Also something else we say in reply to someone who says, I'm coming and we have been known to say so is Christmas.

[bankhaunter]

A lot of familiar phrases in this thread, my mother often told me when I was young, I was as black as Newgate's knocker.

A person enquiring as to the cost of something another had just bought would often say " How much did they rush you for that then" and a way of saying you had a slight connection in some way with another person would be "My cat ran up their alley".

A fairly common one around where I live which always amuses me, is when called the reply would be "I'll be there now in a minute".

[bankhaunter]

I forgot the disapproving sniff followed by "She's no better than she ought to be".

[ilove2patch]

Pulled through a hedge backwards & Look what the cat dragged in! 

[stroppy*cow]

There is of course the local one - "Ey up mi duck" often follwed up with "art all reet then" to which the proper response is "not bad yoth".

[mepixin12]

My mother used to say in reply to anyone who annoyed, disagreed or were being obstinate about something or other "You sicken ma mince"  

I have never heard anyone else other than her sister use this either either.  I sometimes use it when MOH is being as obstinate ass 🙂

[fishpieface]

Oh yes, we had "black as noogit's knocker" too!  I'd forgotten about that one.  I never knew

what it meant either.

My friend says "mad as a box of frogs" which, I imagine, would be quite mad!

[petitecalicocat]

" All fur coat & no knickers ", often said to discribe someone acting better than they really were !

[saasher2012]

" Not a cat in Hells chance". ?

[cookiecookuk]

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@hefzi wrote:

We had the Biafrans too - and blow me down.  My mother still says "b***** that for a game of soldiers" when something is too much effort (or "not worth the candle" 😉 ) and my father's classic is, "she's never been the same since she fell off the organ" (if someone says or does something daft) - NO idea what that's from!  (Though possibly a music hall song?)

My grandmother was all about "the wind'll change and you'll stay like that" (if we were pulling faces) as well as "well, life's not fair" (a hard lesson to learn at 2 1/2, and something my students, in their 20s, still seem unaware of!) - and my grandfather was always threatening to put salt on our tails.  (I remember some song about an ogo pogo, whose father was an earwig and mother was a whale, that involved salt on the tail, so maybe that's where it was from?)  Anyone else had those?

Perhaps, though, I just had hrash yet inventive grandparents, and parents who were unnecessarily foul-mouthed 😉

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the quote about fell of the organ refers to a monkey falling of the barrel organ ie daft monkeying around.

[cookiecookuk]

you would never get away with this now

but  just rememberered something my mum use to say to us if we whined and said thats not fair!!!    

her reply would be  nor is a bl##k mans b#m

sorry if this offends anyone.but my mum said

[mumsie-to-three]

Recognise so many of these sayings from my childhood. Here are a couple more that my Mum used to say.

When someone was wasting time and not getting on with things - "We'll this won't get the baby a new bonnet."

When someone took a long time to get to the point in a story they would be said to be "going all round. the Wrekin".