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Where I first worked, anything we couldn’t think of the name for was called a doofer, Maggie.

Dad always called me Sweet and I had never heard of anyone else’s father using that endearment. I found out where he got it from many years after he died when I was in a supermarket in Southend and the cashier called me Sweet. Obviously, it had come down his Dad’s side as they were all Essex and lived not far from Southend.

If Dad was ever really annoyed, his expression was always Damn and Blast or Damn My Fires. Only once did I ever say the latter and was hauled over the coals for doing so. I

My dad (Fleer Air Arm) would also use the tern 'up the swanee', and 'Khazi'.

He also used to refer to horse poo as 'doofers', as it would 'doofer' the garden :-D

Dad would say "latch the door", meaning lock the front or back door.

If I couldn't make up my mind about anything ................ "Now, you're being a Mugwumps"

which apparently meant having your head on one side of the fence and your butt on the other ........... like many politicians!

My Mother in Law would say, A blind man would love to see it. If anyone complained about the look of something.

visiting the loo


Just going to water me 'orse,
or
going to turn the horse around

Something else my Dad would say is there's enough for 2 if 1 doesn't want any. Usually dinner.

LaGooner, my Dad would say chocolate tea pot. :-D

Shirley, my Dad used to say that to me little knowing that I would move from North London to Bedfordshire , I do now go up the wooden hill here :-D :-D :-D :-D.
Daft as a brush and as much good as a chocolate fire guard were two more of his many sayings

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire !

My dad would say “ well I,m of to the Karsy “ spelling Kharzi

Seems it was English slang for an outside loo which we did have !

We lived in a Victorian house in south east London

Dad often said 'Put wood in hole' also 'You make a better door than a window' if you stood blocking his view of something'.

If you asked him where he was going he'd say ' there and back to see how far it is and if it's too far I won't go '

'Going to see a man about a dog'
That dog never did show up :-(

My Dad also said "Put the wood in the hole" and if I came home a bit grubby he'd say "You're as black as Newgate's knocker"

When I was trying to pull the wool over Dad's eyes, he always said
You must take me for a right pilgarlic.

When seeing an overdress man, he said they looked like a Pox-doctors clerk!

Rather than asking someone to close the door, it was always Put the wood in the Hole.

He also regularly said he would go the the Money Tree at the end of the garden.

I could never find it
:-D :-D

There's an old American song, mainly sung I think by the Blacks in the South or maybe in minstrel shows, something about going up or down the Swanee River????

There is an actual Suwannee River in Florida, but I don't know whether that's the connection.

There was also another version "Swanee" sung by several singers including Bing Crosby!

LOL @ Sheila :-D sounds a bit Yorkie to me :-0

There's a few origins for up the swanny according to google. I've always thought it meant river - same as 'up the creek without a paddle' (polite version ;-) )

Florence61, I think it is a river, not a real one that I am aware of though.

When things go wrong my dad says, "well that's gone up the swanny." Don't know what a " swanny" is??

Mine would say 'It's enough to put t*ts on a worm', where he got that from I don't know, the Army probably :-D

My dad used to say that too Vera LOL

Whenever we found a creepy crawly or something a bit intriguing our dad would say 'don't let it out. it'll rule the world! :-D :-D

20 odd people with no dad or perhaps really boring ones. Silenced by she who must be obeyed? :-0