"Mums" sayings

[ozleicester]

Following from another thread... What are some of the sayings ya mum said/says?

"Ooh ya bod!"

"I go to the foot of our stairs"

[Guest Manini]

My mums got another one where she calls people with an underbite a “how’s your mam” - because she was once approached by a man in Coalville town centre who she didn’t know, who had an underbite who asked her “how’s ya Mam?” 
 

 

You couldn’t ****ing write this shit I swear to god. 

[rico]

Mam, whats for dinner?

 

Shit wi sugar!  

 

[davieG]

Tables are made for glasses not arses

[Guest Electric Yetis]

My Mum's general response to a shocking situation is "oh bugger me".

 

Makes me cringe every time.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

"Wait 'til your father gets home..."

[ozleicester]

1 hour ago, Rain King said:

My Mum's general response to a shocking situation is "oh bugger me".

 

Makes me cringe every time.

I explained what this meant to my MIL... she was gobsmacked (ooh i wonder what that means?) that she'd said it all her life and never linked the buggery of it

[foxile5]

Black over bill's mothers. 

 

All brown boots no breakfast. 

 

Calling sausages 'snorkers'. 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

"Wait 'til your father gets home..."

Reminds me of this - 

 

[drumbeat]

Not mum but dad....

 

He's the kind of bloke that pees through the letter box than knocks the door to see how far it went.

 

...I never could work out what sort of person that was.

 

Mum used to describe some people as a "creeping jesus'. Again, I never quite knew what that meant.

[Houdini Logic]

wacky backy

[jonthefox]

OH this bloody Computer/ tv/ phone/dvd player/washing machine / kettle/ etc. Delete where appropriate .

[RoboFox]

She uses this word "mommy" or "mommie" which generally I think means gooey, or stodgy, or perhaps say when some food has begun to break down "it's gone all mommie". I have never found any evidence of this word actually existing in this context. 

 

She also calls the TV remote control a "pisher." I thought it was a colloquialism... Nope. 

 

Edited 17 September 2021 by RoboFox

[Stadt]

My Grandad always says "Good lad, Dick" when praising a kid, normally a younger family member. I assumed it was a common phrase until I said it at school once and everybody looked at me as if I was insane.

 

He's also always used so much cockney rhyming slang despite living in Leicester all his life, barring a brief stint in Scotland. 

[Webbo]

"You look like a bag a shit tied up rough". 

 

"I'm not as green as cabbage looking"

 

"You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute". 

Edited 17 September 2021 by Webbo

[Alf Bentley]

A couple of my Mum's (she was from Sheffield):

 

"All finished, all cleared, all in a pig's beard!" (to be said when you'd cleared your dinner plate)

 

"See thee, Bill, fireworks!" (said while smearing your arm across your face to point at the sky - supposedly covering up the fact that you were wiping your snotty nose on your sleeve )

[Alf Bentley]

My Dad had a whole series of one-off sayings he'd heard said by odd individuals growing up in Ireland, which he'd throw into conversation when appropriate.....

 

- "She has very fine elbows" (if someone was desperately looking for something good to say about someone of little merit)

- "Take no notice of Beasley's evidence" (if someone made a dubious claim - Beasley was a distant cousin who testified in court that the noise of a car crash was so loud that it knocked him out of bed - the quote was said by the judge)

- "Will you have a spud and I know you won't?!" (if someone wanted to appear generous but didn't want to really be generous)

- "I saw Jim Gear with a whole turkey between his knees" (if someone was encouraging envy in others)

- "It's too plumb, I say, too plumb!" (if someone was being over-fussy about something being exactly right)

 

He also had a good line in rude sayings that amused me as a lad....

"Lads, did any of you ever see Hannah's arse? There's every freckle on it as big as a sixpence!" (said by a bloke notorious for being indiscreet - Hannah was his wife, but DK why he imagined his mates would've seen the freckles on her arse.....)

 

[Big Dave]

Ooh my giddy aunt

 

not on your nellie

 

calling people ‘Paddy M’Ginty’

 

ooh ya bate

[MPH]

To describe how similar I looked to my dad, my auntie used to say 

 

“ you look like a sh*t out ya dads arse”.

[fuchsntf]

5 hours ago, davieG said:

Tables are made for glasses not arses

My mum used to say...

Tables collect crumbs, Not bums...

 

Mam & Dads...usuals ( my Mother & Father Never swore or dieser at home, other than , damn,bloody, or buggar)

 

 Gobsmacked 

When its brown its done,when its black ist buggared

You could Charm the Birds from the trees (granma often to me)

Its black over bill's mothers.

 

I am going to Count the tiles on the wall (Dad),

I am going to take the Dog for a walk...( Even the times we didnt have one)

Chick...( Instead of darling, or name),

Fell Off the back Of a lorry

2 peas in a pod..

Africa..! When I asked my dad where are we going, or..

Ask  After we come back,if we ever do..!! ( especially when mam was taking her time)

 

Were you born in a stable...( Kids Leaving Doors open)

 " Bloody Blackpool decorations" ( when Leaving lights on) or..

   Bloody Las Vegas-christmas-celebrations..

Barn door & horse ( when One of us did, or understand something afterward) ,

Off your rocker....

Jumping over the cracks

Treading on the cracks..

Fell down the cracks

Cat has got the Cream

Thats worse than a back cat, Climbing a Ladder...( Real bad luck)

shit wi sugar..

He/she Landed butter Side up..

Good lad Dick..

Could Fly a plane Backwards ( my mum, on People who regulär known to get themselves out of a jam)

He/she prefers rolls..   ( Like Rolls &cobs) only knew my mam & dad to say it....Anybody that Think they are better than others,or look down on others

Looks like A bag of potatoes, with no where to go .my mom loved mixing up idioms...

A cup Short of a ladder...or

or a Rung Short of a cupboard

cant see Forest for the trees

wouldnt know his sole, from his elbow

more Dog than fish.....  My mam a few times, when looking at Somebody whos over-Dressed to  lure & entice,at Parties or W.Ends out..

 

More lemon.....My sister,when Somebody says " Soul of the party" or

More Dover......When looking at a potential mates,  effeminate characteristics...>>>Not PC, Today . Only has Leicester-relevance <<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[davieG]

There and back to see how far it is in answer to where are we going.

[Scotch]

"If you break your leg, don't come running to me"

 

When I asked what was for dinner, "shite on a bam biscuit".

 

"She's the cats mother" when I referred to her as she. 

[Raj]

8 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Following from another thread... What are some of the sayings ya mum said/says?

"Ooh ya bod!"

"I go to the foot of our stairs"

I should have aborted you when I could you no good f@cktard

[Vacamion]

2 hours ago, Raj said:

I should have aborted you when I could you no good f@cktard

 

I was going to say:

 

"Stop touching yourself there you dirty little sod, you'll go blind"

 

But Raj went way, waaay darker...

[AyewJoking]

Bloody Nora!

 

Mum, have we got anything to drink?

"Council pop!"