Family sayings!

[bunkkinsmom]

One of my favorites from granny:

"Ye without dog poo on your shoe take the first step on the white carpet."

 

[FlightlessDuck]

"Wow, really?"
"Who turned out the lights?" (during a group hug)
"P.S. You really need to shave" (long story)

 

[bunkkinsmom]

"Wow, really?"
"Who turned out the lights?" (during a group hug)
"P.S. You really need to shave" (long story)

Now I want to hear the story!

Most of mine are from Granny. Another is that when she doesn't know who someone is she says "I don't know them from Adam's house cat."

 

[Conservative Hippie]

My grandfather used to always say, "Eat so we can go!" Didn't matter if we weren't going anywhere, he would still say it.

DH and I have picked up a saying from our 3 year old - "This is my favorite thing that I got!"

 

[diznygirl]

Didn't know Adam had a cat.

My gramps always used to say, "Ah, go to bed nights!" It was right up there with "What're gonna do??"

Not sure what any of that meant - but now we say them all the time!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Granny would say:

(when asked where someone was) - "She went downtown to smoke her pipe and won't be back until Saturday night."

"I'm going to stand you on your head."

(when asked what we're having for dinner) - "Children's questions sprinkled with sugar - only she said it in German and it sounded something like "kinder frogg in mit sooker bistrait".

"My foot!"

"Well, goodnight!" (as an exclamation when she was surprised about something)

"After so much laughing comes crying."

"Better out, than in."

In my family, the only thing I can think of that we say is "...as a shicken." Like, "I'm as hungry as a shicken" or "I'm as cold as a shicken." When DS was little, he couldn't say the "ch" sound. It would come out the same as "sh." And, for some reason, he'd always say "I'm tired as a chicken" or "I'm as hungry as a chicken."

 

[Handbag Lady]

A thing of things.




This was code for "Mother, please make sure we buy feminine hygiene products the next time we go to the store." My father thought that getting your period was something to torture his all female family with and we don't know why to this day. He was horrible about it and would tease us and torment us to no end. So, we just didn't ever let on about it.

 

[Diznotyzed]

Jeet?
No. Joo?

translation:
Did you eat?
No. Did you?

 

[fall08CP]

"A cannonball don't pay no mind" - when someone says something odd, we quote that. Bonus points if you know what attractions it's from!

"That was easy!" - when someone does something the hard way.

"Cherries give you cancer" - my grandmother raised my mother believing that cherries will cause cancer, so my mother refuses to touch them. I loooooove cherries so every time she sees me eat one she reminds me that I'll get cancer

 

[yellowlabforever]

Lets see

"She ran off with the milkman"~Older relatives would say this when my sister or myself were looking for my mother when we were younger. Funny part was that I believed it for a few years and we don't even have a milkman

"Dough will give you worms"~A favorite of my Great Grandmother's, the reason why my mother won't eat cookie dough.

"My dogs are barking"~Grandma says this when her feet are sore

"Don't lead us on a two hour death march."~When my cousin, my aunt, my mom, and myself went to Italy, my mom wanted to walk around. We got lost in the corridors, and tried following the signs to the main waterway where our hotel was. Said when we are tired of walking, and someone suggests we go somewhere.

 

[NHdisneylover]

"We don't want any" any time someone has to knock or ring a doorbell to get in.

"Your MOTHER's on the phone" -any call from a relative

 

[kaytieeldr]

"I'm going to give you kids to the first Indian who comes to the door!"

One day, my [crazy] uncle came to the door dressed as, yes, an Indian. My mother quit making this threat

 

[Tazicket]

My Dad has always said "Feet don't have eyes" whenever one of us would stub a toe. I actually said it to my boss one day when she banged her foot on her desk. She just laughed at me.

 

[dejr_8]

If the dog didn't stop to take a poop it would have caught the rabbit.

 

[indimom]

Oh, That Way!
Said when you finally "get" something.

Let the man with the key get to the door.
Said in a sing-song voice and means exactly what it says...
What can I say, we were slow learners.

Stop Clumping.
Grocery store code phrase for spread out and make room for passing shoppers. Dad hated shopping with the six women.

Excuse the pig, the hog's out walking.
For belching. I still don't get it.

I'm going to go commit hari kari.
Used for the correction of rambunctious children.

There's probably more, but those are what I can remember.

 

[GingerJay]

LOL! These are so funny- we have many many sayings in our house- people would probably assume we had our own language if they didn't know us

One from my grandma is: "pretty is as pretty does" to remind us to behave

 

[goofyernmost]

"A cannonball don't pay no mind" - when someone says something odd, we quote that. Bonus points if you know what attractions it's from!

American Adventure...song in the Civil War part. Do I get parting gifts?

 

[MichelleinMaine]

"since Hector was a pup" referring to something a long time ago (I have no clue who Hector is )

"don't waste a trip" (if my gram was going from, say the living room to the kitchen, she'd make sure there was nothing else there that needed to be put away so she wasn't wasting her time)

any number of Ben Franklin/Poor Richard's Almanac sort of quotes get attributed to my great grandfather-eg "Grampa Jackson used to say, a penny saved is a penny earned". It's evolved now that any proverb sort of thing you might use gets preceded by "Grampa Jackson used to say".

 

[sunnyday123]

My Grandmother used to tell us this when she thought we needed to bathe:

"You'll get hydraphobia of the bunghole!"

We thought it was some rare, exotic disease.

 

[minniebeth]

We have tons, but the one that comes to my mind first, is

"Get out of your yearbook" when someone gets stuck on something in the past...