Sayings you heard your aunt saying

Asarlai · 15-01-2015 5:07am #1

If you remember any sayings that your aunt used to say (or still does), you can post them here.

You can post sayings from other relatives of your parent's generation, but only in an emergency (e.g. if you need to go the toilet urgently, and you can't think of anything that your aunt said, but you desperately want to post before you go and you remember a good saying that your mother's second cousin used to say).

"They'd say Mass if they had the book."

BetterThanThou · 15-01-2015 5:13am

"I hate you and I wish you weren't part of the family."

AboutaWeekAgo · 15-01-2015 5:14am

"Stop peeping through the wardrobe"

Kevin McCloud · 15-01-2015 5:25am

And that is the craic she said with one leg up on the bar stool.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-01-2015 6:07am

"They were working like blacks."

Knex* · 15-01-2015 6:43am

One of my Aunts has said a lot of stuff that has made my blood boil over the years, but the I'll always remember one thing that he said and I loved;

"Laugh at the times you can, for the times when you can't"

FluffyAngel · 15-01-2015 8:53am

'get out of my bed ya drunken boollocks "

Ihatecuddles · 15-01-2015 8:54am

If I had a willy I'd be your uncle.

myshirt · 15-01-2015 9:00am

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

Edit: Scratch that, beat to it.

larko · 15-01-2015 9:10am

"That one would go up your arse for news"

"You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in that weather"

@&r in a woodpile"

The last one was said when I was with a filipino friend of mine. My eldery uncle just said it after doing a wordsearch. I nearly died. I talked to him afterwards and he honestly just didn't realise what he said/its inappropriatness. Never heard it after that. But he was a funny man.

The Backwards Man · 15-01-2015 9:37am

'If I start doting take me to the river and drown me'

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in her mid 40s.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2015 10:30am

larko wrote: »

"That one would go up your arse for news"

"You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in that weather"

@&r in a woodpile"

The last one was said when I was with a filipino friend of mine. My eldery uncle just said it after doing a wordsearch. I nearly died. I talked to him afterwards and he honestly just didn't realise what he said/its inappropriatness. Never heard it after that. But he was a funny man.

Well she got that last one wrong. You don't try to find the N in the woodpile. Something is the N in the woodpile, meaning a fact of importance that is not disclosed or a concealed motive. Oh look it up!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2015 10:31am

" Are you writing about me on that interwebbing thing again?"

Tordelback · 15-01-2015 10:36am

From the same conversation about living in South Africa in the '80s:

"One of the best things was leaving everything in a heap at night, and then getting up every morning and finding your shoes polished and your clothes ironed".

"You'd see the blacks asleep all over the place in the middle of the day. Such a lazy people."

No apparent connection made.