Genealogy Chat

Just remembered a couple of others - When I asked what was for dinner it was always 'eels feet and chickens lips' When I asked what my mother was making (she was a dressmaker) it was always 'a wimwam for gooses' bridles'!!!!

Anybody know why my Dad would bless my little cotton socks? At my friend's house we would have 'iffit' for tea - if it's there, you can have it Beth :)

in and out like a dog at a fair.......... for dinner... a rasher of wind and a fried snowball.... a thin person... like a matchstick with the wood scraped off......

If you asked my grandma what she was making, whether it was sewing or knitting etc it was always 'a wigwam for a wowsers what not'. I still haven't got a clue what a wowsers what not is.

When asking 'Whats for dinner tonight Mum',she would often say'Fried fillets of fresh air'

My mother in law came from the Yorkshire dales and when my kids started singing she would tell them they sounded like cows at a christening.I never found out what she meant My grandad used to tell me that if I didn't behave I would get a new nothing with my name written in gold and tied up with ribbon for Christmas Bren

'She looks like Mutton dressed as Lamb' Any middleaged woman dressed in too young a style Jay

Well I remember a good many of those so far but does anyone else remember hearing my favourate that my dad used. 'Where's me glasses, or I'll be running past meself 'The vision of that used to tickle me pink.

If you were looking sulky or making a 'face' you'd be 'Stuck like that when the Wind Changes'!! Jay

All round Jan's meadow. (Going the long way about something) 'Hasn't our cat got a long tail' (Some long-winded and pointless story) 'I've got a bone in me leg' (Excuse for not doing something) 'Up to high doh' (Hysterical)

Gosh Merry, Brings bck so many memories................... jennifer wow!

So many happy memories. but now I miss my Gran...boo hoo. Some of her sayings: Walls Have Ears (just in case I was listening) Pigs might fly. If I said 'thats not fair' the reply was always nor is a black pudding. If I asked Where has my mum gone the reply was There and back to see how far or She's gone a shore to buy a loaf. If I asked what colour she would say Sky blue pink with a finny haddy border! Iv'e seen more meat on a butchers apron. The one I think everyone will remember is Children should be seen and not heard!! When words failed her she would fling her wet dish cloth and I learnt to duck at an early age.

Whats for Tea; run around the table till your fed up. Whens a door not a door when its ajar; Dont try and teach your granny to suck eggs; your a better door than a window; if your stood in front of something; Warm the cockles of my A** to lift skirt and warm yourself backwards in front of fire; Fur coat and no knickers;; all top show Full wind and watter P**s taker Babs;; you have me going now

How about? 'Put wood in 'ole' meaning shut the door! 'Up woooden hill' meaning up the stairs to bed!

Got you going as well then Kathryn;; Babs

Pay day........clean pinnie, and no knickers night...... he is the best boy, in the girls' school....... Bob

Just got back on. 'I've been flat out like a lizard drinking' That's an aussie one that I use quite abit. Thanks for all of your funny sayings. Thanks also to ozi bird for all that 'Don't care' information. Although I don't remember skipping to that in the playgroud. I do remember playing ball up the wall and saying this little dittie I think it went 'Each, Peach, Pear, Plumb. I spy Tom Thumb' and so on , and so on adding either film or pop stars names and always making the two lines rhyme. I still tell the kids if their blocking the view on the telly Stay there I can see straight through you. Keep them coming! Sue

You haven't got anything boiling over, have you.,?........ when saying I ought to be going in case you outstayed your welcome. Old Suffolk saying.

Our question of 'What's for dinner?' was sometimes varied from Bread and pullit........ to 'Bread and cheese and an onion - Hot dinner and no cooking'

If something was untidy, hair sticking out on your head etc, Mum and Granny used to say it was 'sticking up like a tom tit on a round of beef' What the heck does that mean? I said it to one of my daughters the other day and she couldnt stop laughing. What!!! she said, what does that mean? I had to admit I hadnt got a clue. 'Dragged through a hedge backwards' and 'Its a bit black over Bill's mothers' were a couple more. Margaret