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another one was ..... Always expect the unexpected

if my mum was very surprised or shocked at something. she would say : Well blow me down with a feather ...

if some one was nasty to me

me mam would say
dont worry hinny
you'l see more than
you want to see with them

and you know what.......she was right

My nan would always say,ner cast a clout till may is out.This was supposed to mean dont go out without a warm coat or jumper till may is out as the weather can soon change! also if someone had paid you a visit and were on the way home she would say keep out the oss roads.in her younger days horses were used to pull carts etc so you had to keep an eye out,this saying means keep safe on the road home,lol.we live in the west midlands.

..........it won't hurt when the pain goes!...............

Very comforting

and just remembered this... said all the time...

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained!"

if i said "but i thought".....mam would say

well you know what thought did
he thought he had f****d
but when he looked
he had sh*t himself

If my mum was surprised she would say well i,ll go to the end of our street and back

dont look a gift horse in the mouth whats that all about?

If something surprised her, mum would say "Well!,
I'll go to Halifax" (Why Halifax?) and if something happened unexpectedly e.g. a door swinging open for no apparent reason, she would say "It's the man from
Liverpool". All the more strange as she was Welsh.

In my teenage yrs if i moaned that something wasn't fair the response was always, "what, a black man's a**e?"

My Nan's favourite saying seemed to be "f**k a duck"
xx

if you have nothing nice to say about someone say nothing at all

if i asked my elder brother where he was going he always said gonna see a man about a dog I spent hours hoping he would come back with a dog

Children should be seen & not heard

If we asked where our Dad had gone, it was: Gone to see a man about a dog

"Wipe your nose your chins bleeding"



I used to say to my very accident prone son ......"Be careful cos I haven't time to go to casualty today"...and I meant it !! lol

lol it does that!

xx

nudge

If ever I said.. what? my Grandfather said 'cold taters arent hot'

When Mum thought someone was loud and rude she'd say 'empty vessels make the most noise'

My Grandmother always said 'he's about as much use as a chocolate tea pot' and when she had a large bill she could pay
'well you can't pluck feathers off a frog'

Whirley...my mum never said that...she would have deemed that hypocrisy lol...she could always 'spot them a mile off' anyway..


lol Tricia....a trip abroad sounds nice !

xx

No offence to anyone
another one was
"to find a blackman"
I used to think WHY???? course it meant she was going to run away abroad.
wouldn't have to look far nowadays
Just saying what used to be.