Phrases your parents constantly used in your childhood.

KM792

I'l start and all that....

Whenever I would graze my knee or throw a warbler in general my dad would always say "You'l be alright by the time you're married."
It used to wreck my head he would say it so much.
Anyway today the Hoover was acting up,I was getting annoyed and I found myself tutting to myself "era I'l be alright by the time I'm married."
Nearly 30 btw and I actually now think it's a lovely turn of phrase and use it all the time.
Shagged if I ever get married though!

What about you?
Irish Mammy/Daddy pearls of wisdom?

Degag

The house is like a bombhitit

Purple Mountain

When I used to fall or hurt myself, my mum would tell me to go to get mum, my beloved grandmother, who would kiss anything better.

Stoolbend

“I’ll get the wooden spoon!”

BDI

She’s all right to practice on. Said about girls my da thought I should be going with.

'We'll see' from my mother = no.

KM792

Stoolbend wrote: »

“I’ll get the wooden spoon!”

You were lucky,I got the soup ladel.

BDI wrote: »

She’s all right to practice on. Said about girls my da thought I should be going with.

Haha that's brilliant!

Degag

"Respect your Elders" was another one.

If you were sitting on a chair and a neighbour/aunt/uncle came in you'd be expected to get up and let them sit down.

Rightfully so of course although never thought that when i was younger!

Musefan

Whisht

Leg End Reject

Don't come running to me if you break your legs.

Hobosan

Hit the sack.

Purple Mountain

Musefan wrote: »

Whisht

I say that to MY son.

davo2001

"I'll tell you when you're older"

Sardonicat

Said the fella

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

I won't tell you again!

Jesus, Mary and HOLY ST JOSEPH! (That one always preceded the cutlery drawer rattling open so the wooden spoon could be exctracted. It gave me a head start of a few seconds so I could hide under the table. She only ever waived it around menacingly, anyway)

Up the wooden hill

DEFTLEFTHAND

Stop the lights.

Thepillowman

If you were in Biafra you'd eat it.

If your friends jumped off the roof would you do it?

I''ll have your guts for garthers

Entering the kitchen for breakfast as a youngster: "The dead arose, and appeared to many!"

stesaurus

Wait til your Da gets home!

Rubberlegs

Degag wrote: »

The house is like a bombhitit

I was just going to post this! My mother is English and it was "bomzitit". I spent many years wondering what a "bomzitit" was and she was so annoyed I never dared ask

fineso.mom

"Its all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye". Was usually said in a ' see?I told ye so' when someone got hurt after we had already been warned to stop fighting/running/climbing on the bales/tractor/roof ...

Rows Grower

Thepillowman wrote: »

If you were in Biafra you'd eat it.

Heh heh, another one was "You can't be starving, there's bread in the cupboard."

Canis Lupus

'Bed time at the zoo' and 'up the wooden steps' when it was time for bed. I miss my mum.

The Princess Bride

"We'll say a quick decade of the rosary for her/him/it/them."

Rubberlegs

My Dad with his whiissssshhhtttt, the news is on, every evening at 6:)

CitizenFloor

If your father finds out there will be wigs on the green.

"North to Alaska!" when sending us up to bed.

I later found out it was a song & movie from the 60s.

Mam of 4

Eat it , or leave it and go hungry . .

Princess Calla

KM792 wrote: »

I'l start and all that....

Whenever I would graze my knee or throw a warbler in general my dad would always say "You'l be alright by the time you're married."
It used to wreck my head he would say it so much.
Anyway today the Hoover was acting up,I was getting annoyed and I found myself tutting to myself "era I'l be alright by the time I'm married."
Nearly 30 btw and I actually now think it's a lovely turn of phrase and use it all the time.
Shagged if I ever get married though!

What about you?
Irish Mammy/Daddy pearls of wisdom?

Mine used to say "by the time you're twice married " they put way too much faith in my marrying ability.

Rows Grower

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Eat it , or leave it and go hungry . .

Eat it or it's tomorrow's dinner as well.

(It sounds a lot worse than it actually was.)

Wompa1

Clean your room or I'll kill Santa (My dad was a prick)

Akrasia

Were you born in a barn (every time the door was left open)


Hay is for horses


You make a better door than a window(when you’re standing up blocking the tv)

Rows Grower

Wompa1 wrote: »

Clean your room or I'll kill Santa (My dad was a prick)

You had your own room?

And a Dad?

You lucky, lucky bas8trad.

riffmongous

'That's the why'



Still pisses me off thinking about it

riffmongous

'I'll brain you' was another classic

the dark phantom

You'll never amount to anything.
What'll we do with you.
We pack you off to England.

SEPT 23 1989

Rubberlegs wrote: »

My Dad with his whiissssshhhtttt, the news is on, every evening at 6:)

I do that now

Raffo69

"Shut your mouth and eat your dinner"

"If your friends put their hand in the fire would you?"

"Don't have me tell you again"

"Get up them stairs"

worded

If we didn’t eat our porridge it got progressively more threatening starting with ...

The head on you and the price of turnips

I’ll redden your ear

Then .... both ears ....

Then .... I’ll do the river dance on your head

Then ...

I will poke your eyes out with my knitting needles

I will drive over you, and then reverse back over you to make sure I finish you off

That was my grandparents, my folks were a lot worse

Ah the good old days

Arghus

"The man"

He was always there, watching and keeping an eye, waiting for you to start play-acting.

Joe Don Dante

don't just look at it..... suck it

PARlance

sugarman wrote: »

"I know you're a pain but I can't see through you" when blocking the Tele.

"You'd make a great door but a sh1te window" was the different take on that in our house.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

“(S)he’s at every dog fight” or “You don’t have to be at every dog fight”. A favourite of my father’s and I’ve carried it through life. It’s his way of saying “be cool”. Whenever I couldn’t afford a night out in college, I thought of that. The world will keep on spinning if I can’t make it.

M.T. Cranium

stone the crows

right as rain

it's white all over (a frost, not a racist remark)

and "try hard" was a name they used for number two in the loo.

Graces7

"There'll be tears before bedtime!" when we were getting too excited... when it was a hectic game of Monotony oops MONOPOLY with my big brother and his mates she was always right.. as in " It's NOT FAIR! He got a hotel on Park Lane!"

"No pudding until you've eaten your dinner!" * WHY did puddings always look more tasty than dinners!

Paddy Cow

If you fell "hows the floor?".

flowerchild

“Who have you helped today?”

“What do you think?”

RobMc59

"You'll get square eyes watching that telly"

"There's kids staving in Africa"

BrenMar

Wompa1 wrote: »

Clean your room or I'll kill Santa (My dad was a prick)

This made me laugh so much!

Foweva Awone

"Is she doing a line with yer man?"

She wasn't talking about cocaine!

Thepillowman

Even Pudsy Ryan wouldn't do that.