"Mums" sayings

[Hollism]

My mum refers to the central road of any given place as "The main drag".

Eg- In Wigston, Blaby Road is the main drag.

 

She's Leicester born and bred but I've never known anyone use this or have even heard it before.

[Beliall]

GET THE **** OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU LITTLE SHIT

that one might just be me

[Vacamion]

7 hours ago, davieG said:

This popped up on my Facebook page.

 

Not mum sayings but a bit of a fit for this thread.

 

'Ay up me duck' said me dad to me mam,

'Ah'v got us some cobs and some nice Walkers ham', 'The market was manic' he continued to speak, 'I popped up to Linekers' to get fruit for the week', He came into the room and sat down next to me, while mam poured him a nice mug of fresh brewed tetley. 'I popped int'a the aye-cross on me way back, just to av a swift arf, you know just for the craic', 'I was playin' the frootie and mindin' my own, while some nutter beyind me 'ad a raj down the phone; Ee was getting all mardy to 'is bird or 'is mate, cause he'd sed Jamie Vardy wozn't that great' 'well if you could've herd it, it got pretty scary, he was gettin quite heated and seriously larey!' Then me dad sat there chuckling away to himself while me mam got the butter down off of the shelf. He looked over at me still adorned with a grin, 'how are you anyway, where av you bin?''Ah'v bin up town' I said 'riding round Vicky Park, giving our lad a croggy on me bike till it got dark'. And that's how it went just me mam, dad and me as we ate up our cobs and had a few cups of tea; it might not be rio or LA or Rome, but teatime in Leicester will always be 

 

People shoehorning Leicester dialect and references into online poetry is shitty.

 

It makes me so mardy that I dropped my cob whilst getting a croggy in the jitty.

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 September 2021 by Vacamion

[Guest Manini]

1 hour ago, Hollism said:

My mum refers to the central road of any given place as "The main drag".

Eg- In Wigston, Blaby Road is the main drag.

 

She's Leicester born and bred but I've never known anyone use this or have even heard it before.

I’ve known scousers to say this too 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Hollism said:

My mum refers to the central road of any given place as "The main drag".

Eg- In Wigston, Blaby Road is the main drag.

 

She's Leicester born and bred but I've never known anyone use this or have even heard it before.

I heard quite a bit in the past but not recently.

 

[FoxesDeb]

2 hours ago, Hollism said:

My mum refers to the central road of any given place as "The main drag".

Eg- In Wigston, Blaby Road is the main drag.

 

She's Leicester born and bred but I've never known anyone use this or have even heard it before.

I say that, I thought it was pretty usual 

[Filbert_Ross]

2 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

I say that, I thought it was pretty usual 

Yeah same 

[pleatout]

oh where to start - my childhood was years of bemusement and befuddlement  

 

Do you want summat to make that noise about - to crying/grizzling child

Ive heard ducks fart before - in response to an outlandish statement

As tough as 'oss sh*t with the straw took out - in response to someone coming the big I am.

Coming the big I am - someone giving it large

 

Mother in law was worse

Cod froze - to be very cold

tit in a trance - a confused person

 

[Tommy G]

An hour before midnight is worth 2 hours after 

[Buce]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

An hour before midnight is worth 2 hours after 

 

“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.” - Tolkein

 

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/mind-body/a32430882/sleeping-before-midnightimportant/

[Webbo]

It's neither arsehole nor watercress. 

[Carl the Llama]

24 minutes ago, Webbo said:

It's neither arsehole nor watercress. 

Her cooking must have been... interesting.

[cambridgefox]

We are a strange breed in the Fens,so I could take up pages.

My mum was talking about some gossip and said” She’s got a mouth like the devils handbell “

 

my Grandad had some right weird ones.Most places have a “ village idiot” or someone as kids you avoided and I can remember telling him as a young lad that I was scared of him.

”He’s harmless but has got two left legs and spits backwards”

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, Webbo said:

It's neither arsehole nor watercress. 

Yes. Not one thing nor another. Like something bland that has nothing definitive about it. Like a pint of Tiger bitter or Carlsberg lager.

[Webbo]

It's a shame these sayings are dying out. The TV and Internet is making us all homogenised and bland. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Can't  recall my mam saying this but I heard others say,  'You'll never hang yourself'.