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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 12:14:37 GMT 1
Caught myself this morning apologising to the cat - no, that's quite normal - because his daily groom had to be short: "Sorry, it'll have to be a lick and a promise today."
A phrase I last heard from my mother when I was a child.
Any similar phrases you find yourself using which you absorbed from your parents or grandparents?
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Post by Seaboots on Nov 20, 2021 12:23:49 GMT 1
Caught myself this morning apologising to the cat - no, that's quite normal - because his daily groom had to be short: "Sorry, it'll have to be a lick and a promise today."
A phrase I last heard from my mother when I was a child.
Any similar phrases you find yourself using which you absorbed from your parents or grandparents?
My mum and dad had quite a few but one which sticks in the memory is my mum saying ”Wo betide you when your dad gets in”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 12:43:03 GMT 1
Caught myself this morning apologising to the cat - no, that's quite normal - because his daily groom had to be short: "Sorry, it'll have to be a lick and a promise today."
A phrase I last heard from my mother when I was a child.
Any similar phrases you find yourself using which you absorbed from your parents or grandparents?
My mum and dad had quite a few but one which sticks in the memory is my mum saying ”Wo betide you when your dad gets in” I thought woe betide was the naughtiest boy in school. I had a teacher who said. Woe Betide, the boy who comes in late. Woe Betide, the boy who doesn't do his homework. Woe Betide, the boy who doesn't cover his books. I didn't ever see him. I supposed he was in borstal. When I cried my mum would say "I'll give you some to cry for." I wondered why because I obviously already had something. "Give it to my brother", I thought, "he seems overly happy."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 13:03:32 GMT 1
Think before you speak Now it would be think before you post.
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Post by Veem on Nov 20, 2021 13:19:36 GMT 1
A blind man would be glad to see it.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 20, 2021 13:30:55 GMT 1
Bob's your Uncle, Fanny's your aunt And your mother's a cowboy
Said in a Shankill accent.
And, no, I've no real idea what it's supposed to mean either.
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Post by woolybanana on Nov 20, 2021 13:45:45 GMT 1
“You little *ugger!” Funnily enough I say it these days to the dog when he starts after hedgehogs.
When there was a ring at the door my father used to say “ Forward Miss Kingsnorth”, the origins of which I cannot find. How I hated that phrase.( calling it a phrase sounds less grammatical)
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Post by pcpa on Nov 20, 2021 14:28:46 GMT 1
Children should be seen and not heard.
I always think of it when deafened by expressive children or the toddlers with the piercing scream that is physically painfull from 200m away and whose parents have immunity, usually heard in supermarkets or from distant gardens with trampolines or swimming pools.
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Post by Seaboots on Nov 20, 2021 14:30:22 GMT 1
Bob's your Uncle, Fanny's your aunt And your mother's a cowboy Said in a Shankill accent. And, no, I've no real idea what it's supposed to mean either.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 20, 2021 15:24:26 GMT 1
And when we lived in Huddersfield:
"Sew a button on your head, it's cloth"
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 20, 2021 15:47:31 GMT 1
Good evening vicar (after a rather loud fart)
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Post by Crystal on Nov 20, 2021 16:24:02 GMT 1
Get out…yer shoes are boggin!
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 20, 2021 16:44:47 GMT 1
Children should be seen and not heard. I always think of it when deafened by expressive children or the toddlers with the piercing scream that is physically painfull from 200m away and whose parents have immunity, usually heard in supermarkets or from distant gardens with trampolines or swimming pools. Luckily there are no children near enough to us to be that much of a nuisance but there is a pack of hunting dogs kept the other side of the valley that start barking about 11pm and stop just before dawn. The owners must be stone deaf, just like parents of some savage children.
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Post by houpla on Nov 20, 2021 20:29:33 GMT 1
My grandad had loads To this day, I remember 'San Fairy Ann'. It must come from French during a World war, but no idea which one or what the original is, or why it was 'adopted'.
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Post by pcpa on Nov 20, 2021 20:38:49 GMT 1
Ça me fait rien, came from my area in WW1.
I was stupefied the first time I heard a French person say "Allez-hop!" as my father used to say it to me when I was young, he had never been to France but had a good mine village grammar school education until being sent down t'pit at 14.
Its a shame he died before I moved to France because I think he had a lot more surprises hidden away.
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