Family Sayings

[Bowler]

Have you got any sayings that your parents used to say to you that you use / used with your children and that they now use with their kids now.

One of ours is “pigs lay down after eating”. 🐖

[denise]

You talk so much your tongues sunburnt

[denise]

You'd talk the hind legs off a donkey

[denise]

This we heard a lot as kids:

de it agin an I'll bash ya

ok my accent might not be that good

[Gordan1111]

my mum used to make a sort of weather prediction. She would declare that if there was enough blue in the sky to make a pair of men's trousers it would turn into a nice day. (I don't know if worked)

[denise]

We moved from South East to South West. Had my washing on the line but it was a dull, windless day. An elderly lady was walking past and she nodded in the direction of my washing and said "they're like hanged men" . 🤤 I've never heard that saying since but it's one that stayed with me.

[Suefromwakey]

If you ant gor owt good to sey dont say owt!

[Beemer]

I am a southerner, and have been training to be a northener since 1997, I have learned so many new sayings since marrying a Yorkshire lass (there's one), that I cannot print them all. I love the broad Yorkshire accent though.

[Shaun]

Part of our dialect, i will often say ‘where you to’ meaning where have you been and/or where are you,
Another favourite word of my mine is gurt , meaning big , or large it can also mean great so has a double meaning

[Beemer]

Part of our dialect, i will often say ‘where you to’ meaning where have you been and/or where are you,
Another favourite word of my mine is gurt , meaning big , or large it can also mean great so has a double meaning

My father in law used to call his ex wife Gert. Her name was Christine.

[denise]

Shaun isn't that Somerset or Bristol?

[matthew55]

Waste not, not want. A saying that came in post WW2. 😄x

[Shaun]

Shaun isn't that Somerset or Bristol?

I iz West Country

[matthew55]

I'm stoned. Waste not, want not. And I grew up in Devon 😄x

[Ellie]

I iz West Country

That just flashed a memory of Wurzel Gummidge into my crazy mind, Shaun, and brought me right back to my childhood - thanks, 😘