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"It'll never get better if you pick at it"


"Don't come running to me if you break your leg"




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What are you crying for? I will give you something that hurts!

"Who said you could come in the house?" and "you'll never amount to anything" are the two most common things I recall ...

My mother's favourite: "You'll hae some buggers een oot wi that!"

I thought they were King Harold's last words, addressed to one of his bowmen...



Have you noticed how mothers spend the first two years of your life teaching you to walk and talk, and then suddenly they start telling you to "sit down, and shut up!"



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And then there's the "well done" you get when a baby burps! Can you imagine getting a "well done" now if you burped in front of your mother?

I think i'd get a "Go to your room and think about what you've just done!"

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,laugh> Oh, this thread is great. Too bad I have no contributions. Mine were all in Hebrew, you see, and quite hard to translate.

"if you don't eat your tea, I'll stuff it up your nose!"


I am ashamed to say that was also one of my sayings too!

It's quite quaint, really, because I associate tea with, erm,

"you'll understand when you have kids"

"Pocket Money!!!" "You'll get pocket money!!" lol

We also had a Bill's Mother's house that it went black over, and "The Towers" was the psychiatric institution local to us, but my Mum used to say it more as a threat..as in "Enough to put me in the Towers, you lot!"

Dunno why they called ice cream "Oakey" though, any ideas?

"Don't do that dear, your brain will fall out"

"You're a fool!"

















Or do people just say that to me?

A personal grumble...

My mum must think I'm super man; she keeps asking me:

>>> "Any more tea in the pot?" <<<

When we are two rooms and a halway away from the kitchen. Like I can see through walls or just *know* what's in the tea post at any one given time.... Huh!

If she means can she have a cup of tea, then yes, just get of 'yer' backside and go and get one, or make one if need be!



A more common one...

"There will be tears before bedtime." - Why?

>>There will be tears before bedtime<<

My mum used that one too! Usually said when we were all play fighting and laughing away with each other, but mum knew that before too long, someone would get a good elbow in the face and start crying!

'If the wind changes your face will stay like that'

For the days when I'd been out rolling in the mud...
'You're as black as Newgate's knocker!'

and..
'Mum! my hurts when I move it!
'Well don't move it then!!'

Good at sympathy, is my mum

We used to get "Yir as black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat"

And my mum obviously used to go to the same sympathy school as yours!

"Mum, I've fallen and I'm bleeding everywhere" was answered by "Wait til your Dad comes home from work, he'll sort you out"

Scottish mother -

"If it disnae stick in yer throat, it willnae stick in yer arse - so eat it"

self-explanatory really !!

'Choke up chicken'