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Old 06-09-2011, 09:49 PM   #1
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Sayings from the Old Country

These are some of the manners epithets I heard time and time again as a child in England. I seriously suspect they did not travel well:

Want will be your master -when a kids says "I want...."

She's the cat's mother (rude to refer to a female person as "she", should use her name, but "he" is ok)


feel free to add peculiar sayings you learned in your childhood that really don't work/make sense in your current life.....
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Old 06-09-2011, 10:01 PM   #2
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My dad would say, "Who's she, the cat's mother?"

My buddy says, "How does it feel to want?"
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Old 06-09-2011, 10:03 PM   #3
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so some of the old country made it across the Atlantic! That's comforting. They look at me like I just birthed a three-headed communist when these slip out here....
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:50 AM   #4
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The cat's mother one is used commonly in Oz too.

Sibling used to hold his cutlery standing on its end so that the sharp bits pointed at the ceiling. My folks used to tell him that there was a little man in the roof that would fall and impale himself.
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Old 06-10-2011, 09:42 AM   #5
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It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Comparisons are odious.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph...
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Old 06-10-2011, 09:53 AM   #6
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Never heard of the "cat's mother" funny

You don't know shit from shinola!
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Old 06-10-2011, 09:53 AM   #7
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Old 06-10-2011, 09:56 AM   #8
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Went for a Burton.

(fell/tumbled)
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Old 06-10-2011, 10:06 AM   #9
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"Where there muck, there's brass." is what Mom would say to any of us kids who complained about doing a shitty job (like cleaning out the cat box). Sort of along the same lines as when my husbands grandfather would say "Smells like money" whenever they would drive past a pig farm.
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Old 06-10-2011, 10:53 AM   #10
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My mom's mum (from Rearsby, Leicestershire if that is, in fact, a real place) used to write in her diary "Fell off my bike" as a euphemism for getting drunk.
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Old 06-10-2011, 11:33 AM   #11
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Did she at least wear a helmet?
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Old 06-10-2011, 03:57 PM   #12
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"A kiss without a mustache is like a soup without salt" - what my Mom said to me when she met one of my boyfriends who had a mustache.
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Old 06-10-2011, 04:13 PM   #13
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'Where there's muck there's brass' is probably one of the most famously quintessential Yorkshire phrases. There was a brilliant tv programme years ago called 'Brass', centred on a wealthy Yorkshire family.

'Shaping wooden' is one I have inherited from Ma. If you're faffing about being ineffective: "Come on, you're shapin wooden lass."

Another is: 'stand locking up'. As in "If I don't sort out that bill before it goes red, I stand lockin' up" or, "If I don't get an early night tonight, I stand lockin' up."


I think my favourite though, was the phrase that both mum and dad used to signal bedtime: Come on then, they'd say, 'up tha dances'. For years my infant brain heard that as 'up the dances' and thought that somehow 'the dances' meant the stairs to bed.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:30 PM   #14
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"A kiss without a mustache is like a soup without salt" - what my Mom said to me when she met one of my boyfriends who had a mustache.
Or "beef" (no jokes here, please) "without mustard", as my mum said.
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Old 06-10-2011, 08:30 PM   #15
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