Family sayings!

[hsmamato2]

"Those were the salad days" (Raising Arizona".

OMG- You made me remember another fave in our house,in addition the 'salad days' quote- we always say 'sitting in the fabled catbird seat' always makes my teen ds laugh....

 

[PigletsPal2]

"Don't panic in the car wash!"

We say this when someone is getting nervous about something s/he can't control. Refers to when DD#2 was about 18 mos. old and would begin to "panic" when I pulled into the gas station, for fear that I was going through the car wash instead of just pumping gas. Car washes are scary for little ones, and after her first "attack" I only got the car washed when she wasn't with me. But little minds remember and I'd always have to reassure her - "Don't panic on the car wash - we're only getting gas."

Queen Colleen

 

[disneydreamersx4]

everyone! your sayings are so funny!

Does your father work for Public Service? (electric company)
Said if you leave the lights on in a room no one is in.

When we asked 90 yr old grandma how does she feel she would say with her fingers

Do you think we grow money on a tree? tell the kids when they ask for money

Do you want a tissue for your issue?

 

[crz4mm2]

My G-ma always said "she's (or he's) got the same clothes to get glad in she had to get mad in".

G-pa would say "I am going to cloud up and rain all over you" in his big booming voice. You knew you were had then.

 

[goofyernmost]

My Nana used to say "hay is for horses!!" if you dared to say "hey" in front of her.

We had a slight variation of that..."Hay, is the first stage of horse manure". (nice way of saying it)

My aunt used to babysit us during the day over summer break and we would ask her what's for lunch. Her response would be. "Sh*t on a shingle"

FYI..you probably already know this but SOS is the military slang for Chipped Beef in white gravy on Toast. As a kid we had it all the time. In fact, now that it has been brought up...I think I may need to go out and buy some Chipped Beef.

 

[lovesmurfs]

My Nana used to say "hay is for horses!!" if you dared to say "hey" in front of her.

Mine would say, "Straw is cheaper; grass is free."

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Too bad so sad. That is in response to the complaint of the minute.
Stop doing XYZ because I do not have time for a trip to the emergency room today!

 

[PigletsPal2]

When my "kids" go out - "Behave yourself; I don't have bail money."

Queen Colleen

 

[smb6]

A popular saying with my family is- "every body's got to be doing something" or "everybody needs a plan". So when you hear a crazy story- ya know, the lady down the street was arrested for robbery- "well, everybody's got to be doing something". Basically if you hear or see someone doing something out of the norm- "everybody's got to be doing something"...... Or if someone tells you their "plans"- ya know, were going to take our toddlers to Vegas for Christmas- I hear they have free child care- "well, everybody needs a plan".

 

[castmemberb4]

A**alutely -we always use it instead of absoultely after a family cruise when a less than sober uncle mispronounced it.

Oh Look! A Chicken! - For my ADD moments.

 

[scbelleatheart]

"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't wear his a** off hopping". We, answered by DH, "do you have a mouse in your pocket?" As indepedant as a hog on ice ( which meant we were a little headstrong).

 

[indimom]

Do you live in a barn?
Wherever you go, there you are.

 

[fraggle551]

Whenever we complained to my grandma that we were bored, she used to tell us to go outside stand on our heads and spit wooden nickels.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Do you live in a barn?
Wherever you go, there you are.

HHAHAHA! My grandfather asked my grandmother that once! She said "Yes I did, and the sound of a jack*** braying is making me homesick"

 

[Pikester]

We have many sayings that we use but just a few are

"Get me down to Robert's!" My Mom and I say that whenever we are someplace crowded. Just means get me out of here! Was said for the very first time by my Great-Great-Grandmother while on her way to her son Robert's(My Great Grandfather) house while driving though traffic.

"I guess you should have bought it when you saw it GG." Said whenever we see something in the store and are not quite sure we want to buy it as a reminder that we should get it. Was said for the first time when my DS13 was little. My Mom (GG) had taken him shopping. My Mom was disappointed that something she had seen and wanted to buy was no longer there and that was his response.

"She/He looks like Jenny the Paperlady" Said when someone looks all disheveled. When my Grandmother was a little girl her family had a paperlady that would come to deliever and her hair was always messed up and flying all over the place due to the weather.

 

[texasthumper]

These are so funny! I love the old Grandma/Grandpa ones the best.

My grandfather was a retired Army Colonel and he never told us to get ready to go. He just stood there yelling, "BOOT!" Also when anyone ever asked what was on TV, he ALWAYS said "When Bearkat Went Dry." To this day I don't know what Bearkat was...maybe an oil gusher?? He also never called his children by their real names...my uncle John was "Double Ugg (ugly)" and my mother Norma was "George Oscar."

If you asked my Granny to do something for you, she would always say, "I'll do it DRECKLY." I didn't know she meant "directly" until I was almost grown--and she really meant the opposite!

She never ever said anything bad about anybody. The worst thing I ever heard her say was about a new beautician she went to. She said, "She was the most UNCONCERNED Somebody I ever saw!" We still quote that one.

We quote Raising Arizona all the time, too. I'll just sneak-a-peek-aloo. Not that mother scratcher! You 'pear to be capable.

One of my friends had a hilarious Mom. If anyone ever said, "What should I do with this?" she always said, "Stand there and hold it!"

Three things we still say at home are from when our 29 year old son was little,

"but Mom, we've had that for MEALS AND MEALS OF WEEKS" now said when someone is bored with the menu choice at home.

"I did it on Axe Dent"

"I waited the whole wait!"

Keep 'em coming y'all!!!

 

[ZephyrHawk]

In my family a "soup hound" is an untrustyworthy person; a layabout. Strangely, my family has another word, "fadoozler", which means basically the same thing, but is said with more affection (as to one's family members).

 

[Swank]

My Father always asks "What did I do, break a dish?" when something is expensive.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

HHAHAHA! My grandfather asked my grandmother that once! She said "Yes I did, and the sound of a jack*** braying is making me homesick"

Oh that is funny! Never heard that one.

I am enjoying all of these posts.

 

[scbelleatheart]

These are so funny!
Neighbor mother of 11 when she needed help "Rats, rats leaving a sinking ship"
My DM when asked why she left something early "Everyone started feeling Mary so I went home"
To take a chance "Ladies & gentleman, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice"