Sayings Your Mam/ Dad Would Say

[Bobbisox1]

What’s for tea?

Take a walk round the table and see ( not the rude one ) haha

[emmie]

i can't honestly remember, but nan said when you cry - you cry alone....

[emmie]

no good sitting there staring at four walls, another of grans sayings.

[Bobbisox1]

That would be
Smile and the world smiles with you, Cry and you cry alone
Which has an element of truth in there

[emmie]

i think she forgot the first bit, but that makes sense..

[Jackdaw33]

That comes from:

Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes JD , I said the Geordie version ;0)

[emmie]

maybe jack,

[Jackdaw33]

Of an untidy room:

This place is like Paddy's market.
(from a stall on Newcastle Quayside where everything was piled higgledy-piggledy)

[Bobbisox1]

A favourite was what most mothers would holler in those long Summer nights out playing
( name) get in here now , if I have to come looking for ya ;0)

[Peter Pedant]

wont fill a hollow in a tooth!
you need clemming you do ( clem = starve, from the Dutch clemmen, meaning er to starve)
Your mother was a saintess !
leave it Gladys ( she never did)
well I never did!

and so Gladys at the tea table, of her sons fiancee: that little tart was around here again today! - - - hubby Leave it Gladys....

[Peter Pedant]

unkept room - - this is like a hurrah's nest

[Peter Pedant]

good will never knit a babys bonnet

[CrapAtCryptics]

Come back when you are better dressed, never understood that one.

[Cloverjo]

(Not my mum or dad, but my gramps.)

Cough it up. It might be a gold watch.
Your hair looks like an explosion in a mattress factory.
Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt and the baby’s name is Rosie.

[Bobbisox1]

Never heard that one before C@C but I bet there’s a lot of regional ones out there

[Peter Pedant]

clean top and bottom ! - - wash and clean your shoes before going out

[Bobbisox1]

Haha CJ, heard most of them but not with the baby’s name is Rosie , lol

[Sunk]

Q: When?
A: When Nelson gets his eye back.

Just going to see a man about a dog.

You shape like a wooden duck.

[Bobbisox1]

Never heard of 1-3 of them Sunk

[ummmm]

What the eff have you done now? You need locking up...