Things your Mammy ( or Dads) used to say!

Morlock

Hi all , I was in the Canteen this morning talking, and we started talking about the old Dublin sayings your mam or dad would drop everyday, just wondering how many there are

• Sayings

"Sure a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't see it"
"Goodnight tea and your goodbye tea"

WindSock

"Here's me head, me arse is coming" in reference to someone who stoops a lot.

Bubblefett

"six of one, half a dozen of the other"

xzanti

"Where do you think you're going, with no bell on your bike and your knickers ringing"

Never quite understood it :pac: and no, I wasn't incontinent

bocoda

"if your with them..your as bad as them"

btard

When I didn't want to do something. " It's a long road that has no turning"

Satts

If you break your two legs, don't come running to me.

Jimoslimos

My Da used to say "Are ye right there Michael, are ye right?"

My name isn't Michael

darkdubh

Saying someone is quare(in the old sense of the word)My Dad always says of someone who's a bit strange"that fellas half quare".

Aglomerado

Look at the head of that, and the price of turnips!

Joe10000

"Do you think I came down on the Ballina bus ?"

In response to any bull****

hefferboi

"If he hits you, hit him back".

I'm now serving 7 years in Limerick for aggravated assault.

cursai

Stop hanging around with those 'corner boys'. You won't make a living that way.

xzanti

"Ask me arse and call tomorrow for the answer"

Endaaaagh

(me asking my mother for something)
Mother: "No"
Me: "But Why???"
Mother (standing there doing nothing): "that's the why"

BO-JANGLES

"Where's me school bag?"

Ma "It's upstairs in Nelly's room behind the wall paper"

There was no Nelly But I still proceeded to search. The whole family laughed.

For years whenever I would look for anything I was told to look upstairs in Nelly's room behind the wall paper:)

Twinkle_76

When I choked on food my mum used to tell me it went into my arm, just shake my arm and it would move. It was only in second year biology that I finally put two and two together and was stunned that my mum lied to me.
Just goes to show that you never questioned your parents in my day.

Greenmachine

"If you keep making that face you'll stay that way"
I now look like Dolly Parton, a very old Dolly Parton, and I'm a guy. :eek:

LONE WOLFF

"Anything with tits or wheels, you'll always have problems with them"

Lawrence1895

'Should you ever get married, your wife will be a nag, just like your mother'

kelle

"She has a mouth as big as the Atlantic!"

"She has a face on her that would stop a watch!"

gipi

My mother was always "paying a visit to Mrs Murphy"....aka going to the loo!

iguana

BO-JANGLES wrote: »

"Where's me school bag?"

Ma "It's upstairs in Nelly's room behind the wall paper"

There was no Nelly But I still proceeded to search. The whole family laughed.

For years whenever I would look for anything I was told to look upstairs in Nelly's room behind the wall paper:)

I occasionally heard that one but just as often I heard the ruder version; 'up Jack's hole and around the corner.' Of course maybe I only thought it was rude and they were actually referring to the posh caravan park in Wicklow?

pjmn

"That fella is like a lighthouse in Athlone,
Bright but fecking useless"

dollyk

When I asked what was for dinner my mothers always answered.
cows roudies and bullocks banjos .:P

Oh and the answer to where she was going was . Tim buck fooking tu.

Satts

Go to the chemist and buy a big bottle of cop on.

Lionel Messy

My mam says "bleddy" instead of bloody. "i can't change the bleddy channel!"

zef

"you'll be better before you're twice married" - when i'd fall over as a kid.

angelbabie

if he banged his head off a wall, would u do it.....
often referred to when we tried to keep up with the joneses

philstar

"if you keep doing that you'll go blind"

Ann22

iguana wrote: »

'up Jack's hole and around the corner.' :

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Brilliant! I'm going to start saying that now. I've heard 'up me ar*e pickin daisies' or 'up me ar*e hanging on a nail' ...but your version is miles better:D

F.R.

'Up and down like a whores drawers'

MissRetro

Jimoslimos wrote: »

My Da used to say "Are ye right there Michael, are ye right?"

My name isn't Michael

My Gran used to always say this too (it's an old Irish song)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_Ye_Right_There_Michael

GreenWolfe

"Don't be earwigging now!"

stoneill

I'll cut the arsé offa ya!

Stop talking when I'm interrupting you.

aineh

'The wind will change and you'll have that ugly face on ya forever!'

aineh

'Clean your room.'
'No'
'I'll time you.'
*sprints to bedroom*

LONE WOLFF

aineh wrote: »

'Clean your room.'
'No'
'I'll time you.'
*sprints to bedroom*

My wife does this with our four year old but it's "get on your pyjamas"
Works every time !!!

kelle

stoneill wrote: »

I'll cut the arsé offa ya!

My aunt used to say this to her kids! As a result I was good as gold when I stayed there because I didn't want mine cut off! Years later, we were having a good laugh about it wondering how you would carry out this threat : Well, after all Supernanny says you should never make a threat you aren't going to carry out!

PS. She was a no.1 aunt behind it all

aineh wrote: »

'Clean your room.'
'No'
'I'll time you.'
*sprints to bedroom*

Thanks for that tip - I'm going to try it out!

SlimCi

Jimoslimos wrote: »

My Da used to say "Are ye right there Michael, are ye right?"

My name isn't Michael

Thats actually a line from a song, from what I remember...:)

DubCul

If I said I would not be bold again, the reply was

"The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions"

Superbus

Half 9 and not a child in the house fed and watered.

Rega

aineh wrote: »

'Clean your room.'
'No'
'I'll time you.'
*sprints to bedroom*

Or the other classic I used say to the little brother after me mam asking me to do something:

"I bet you can't bring in the coal."
"I can."
"No, you can't. Sure you're too small."

Cue young fella legging it out back with the coal bucket and me sprawled out on the couch.

Roadtrippin

Get your lazy arse out of bed.

Does that count as a saying? :P

helen48

My mam (r i p) if we left door open would shout Were not heating the feckin county!!!

SAN123

Superbus wrote: »

Half 9 and not a child in the house fed and watered.

My folks had a similar saying "Half nine and not a child in the house washed"

CarrickMcJoe

The Divil finds work for idle hands to do.

helen48

If I got a pimple or spot I'd hear its the badness breakin out in ya

angeldaisy

helen48 wrote: »

My mam (r i p) if we left door open would shout Were not heating the feckin county!!!

My dad used to ask us if we'd been born in a barn if we left the door open...

helen48

You were born in a hospital with swinging doors was another 1.

CarrickMcJoe

If youre not in bed by 1 o clock, come home!