Father's and Mother's Phrases

[airbolt]

I can remember my Dad having many Phrases that got a lot of use during my childhood. One ( of many ) was used after he put something in the oven. He would slam the door and say " Number One Gun fired , SAHH ! " ( as you might guess he was in the forces ). It always made me and my sisters laugh .Does anyone else have any memories of their Dad's ( or Mums ) catchphrases?

[THECORBYLOON]

If ever I asked ma mum what was for dinner/supper the reply was "A rin roon the table" (A run round the table)

[IndieSinger]

When I asked what was for tea, the reply was always "bread and water".

If I ever asked my dad where he was going, he would always say either, "There and back, see how far it is." or "Off me rocker."

My mum still describes her height as "Five foot one and a tealeaf." and she says, "'Round the Jinny 'Orner." for "'Round the corner".

[flaming]

My  grandad, having got comfortably sitting, and not wanting to get up again for something asked for (a cuppa maybe) would say 'I can't. I've got a bone in me leg'.  

My nan would warn, every time I went for the spoonful of sugar ('neat' grains into my mouth)  'you'll get sugar diabetes' which was said many many years before it was heard about generally.  The significance was lost on the little me.  Later I realised that it was probably because she had originally hailed from Bury St. Edmunds, near which town was a huge sugar beet factory (is it still there?).   It must have been known amongst the folk there long before the general population realised about the illness.

[flaming]

Posts on another thread reminded me of another grandad saying  'up the wooden hill' when it was my bedtime.  I have realised where he got it from ....a song.

[Grunty]

When I asked my Dad where something was, it was always 'in the oven behind the cake'.  When asked what he wanted to eat, it would be 'kippers and custard'.  That one was easily cured though.

[Artful]

Whenever I questioned my Dad's reasons for...as I often did : why do you say I have to do that, why? why? - the answer would always be (and often still is today) "Because I'm a Daddy" and flaming your grandad brought back memories "with a bone in my leg". How often did I hear that?!

[Kay]

As kids if Dad was going out we would ask "where are you going Dad" He always replied " Going Mad..coming?"

[Kay]

Also if my mum did'nt believe something she had heard she would say " Its all me eye an me elbow" LOL.

[Golem]

How old is my mother? Her reply, "As old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth!"

[acw]

My Nana always told me to take my coat off in the house (also jumpers) "because you won't feel the warmth when you go out".  My Mum says the same.  So do I now.  I'm getting old.  Lol :-)

[Octavius]

Whenever I made my dad a cup of tea he would always take a sip and say "bleedin' 'ansome".

He was Irish so I think he must have picked that up in the 50's when he arrived here and it stuck!

[tetherend]

If any of us got big headed at home, my Dad used to say "Yes, but you don't know how many beans make 5 do you". 

[jeepster]

Indiesinger my dad always said there and back.He also said "Born in a barn?" if we left the door open

[Rumford]

When, as a child, I would ask my mother what was for dinner her answer was 'legs of chairs and pump handles'. Since she never pronouned the 'h' of handles I spent years trying to work out what a 'pumpandle' was - not realising it was two words.

[IndieSinger]

Rumford - that reminds me of the standard (usually sarcastic) answer my dad gave if I'd done something mildly punishable. He would say, "That's a smackin' offence, that is." I, too, spent years (in fact I never knew what he was really saying until I was about 18) wondering why anyone would smack a fence and how it would affect/discourage me!

[thikasabrik]

My mum used to drive me around the bend with this one. If I misplaced something and would say "Mum, have you seen my satchel/hairbrush/book/tights/whatever?" She would calmly say "I know where it is." I would look at her expectantly and then she delivered the killer line.

"YOU'LL FIND IT WHERE YOU LEFT IT."

Being a gullible muggins, I fell for it every time.

[janeyflop]

My granny used to take us shopping to the 'falleen ends' in Newcastle - I was about 14 or 15 when it finally sunk in that this was broad geordie for 'the four lane ends'! Answer to 'where you going now?' has been 'collecting milk bottles' for many years in our family - from the machine gunners on bbc - my husband even uses this reply now!!