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Phrases your parents constantly used in your childhood.

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    #32
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,236 ✭✭✭✭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)


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    #33
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,843 ✭✭✭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.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #34
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    'That's the why'



    Still pisses me off thinking about it


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    #35
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    'I'll brain you' was another classic


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    #36
    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


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


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    #37
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


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

    I do that now


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    #38
    Raffo69
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭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"


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    #39
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭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


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    #40
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,354 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    "The man"

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


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    #41
    Joe Don Dante
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Joe Don Dante


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


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    #42
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,094 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #43
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭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.


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    #44
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 14,338 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #45
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭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!


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    #46
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    If you fell "hows the floor?".


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    #47
    flowerchild
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭flowerchild


    “Who have you helped today?”

    “What do you think?”


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    #48
    RobMc59
    Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    "You'll get square eyes watching that telly"

    "There's kids staving in Africa"


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    #49
    BrenMar
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭BrenMar


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Clean your room or I'll kill Santa (My dad was a prick)
    This made me laugh so much!


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    #50
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    "Is she doing a line with yer man?"

    She wasn't talking about cocaine! :D


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    #51
    Thepillowman
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Thepillowman


    Even Pudsy Ryan wouldn't do that.


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    #52
    Mackman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    Not really a saying, but my dad used to (and still does) say "Dingin'! For something that's good/cool.


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    #53
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    "You'll play with the cat 'till he scrabs you" when we were teasing somebody.

    "You'll not stop 'till ye break it" when we were tricking with something.


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    #54
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Our Lord is there watching you" - referring to spooky Sacred Heart picture with the follow you everywhere eyes.

    "School days are the best days of your life" - me bollox they are.


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    #55
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    They'd make a tinker out of ya - my mother, describing us kids to others.

    Ya tantalising little bastards - the same mother getting ready for exercise with the wooden spoon.

    Did you meet anyone you like better than yourself - my old maiden auntie whenever you came in from being out

    Your bladder is too close to your eyeballs - my father, regularly to me. I cried easily.


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    #56
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    "If your head wasn't on your shoulders you would lose it."
    "You're laughing now, you'll be crying in a minute."

    "Where is my bike?" ... "Up in Nellie's room behind the wallpaper" :confused::confused::confused:


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    #57
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,730 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    “You can go to bed after Glenroe” was the norm on a Sunday night.

    “Shut your mouth and eat your dinner”, was another regular


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    #58
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Pick a lane, any lane.

    Are you going to ****ing turn or spend all goddamn day indicating?

    You want a medal or a chest to pin it on?


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    #59
    L'prof
    Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Any time dad was gone out it was always “to see a man about a dog”. We never got a dog :(


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    #60
    L'prof
    Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Any time dad was gone out it was always “to see a man about a dog”. We never got a dog :(


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    #61
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,236 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    My Dad used to call farts 'Air Fresheners' Which was cute until that one time I was in the back of a car with a bunch of my under 12 hurling teamates on the way to a match (way more kids than seatbelts but those were the days) and someone farted, and me like the eejit that I am said 'Who's after doing an air freshener?'

    He also used to call that small castle between limerick and Ennis 'Bun Mousey' because it was smaller than Bunratty. Another embarrassing moment in front of my gaa teammates, thanks dad.


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