Expressions your mum and dad used to use ...

[Tribansman]

A few I remember....

It's black over Bill's mother's - when ominous dark clouds were approaching
I'm sweating cobs - when they were too hot
You must be in cloud cuckoo land - no chance what you're hoping for will happen
You daft ha'p'orth - when being a bit silly

 

[Blue Hills]

Oh no pre mobile days is late 60's - 80's

lost me biggs - how could someone who wasn't with you ask where you where then?
sorry if being dim - coffees not quite kicked in.

 

[Gunk]

my Dad used to shout to my two brothers and I in the morning “Hands off cocks, on socks’

 

[mistyoptic]

“If the wind changes, while you’re pulling that face, you’ll stick like it”

 

[Cycleops]

Was that maybe to reassure your mum?

Never thought about it that way but could be.

 

[alicat]

'I want, never gets.'

'If you ask a silly question, you'll get a silly answer.'

'If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about'.

plus:

“If the wind changes, while you’re pulling that face, you’ll stick like it”

Memo to self: in your next reincarnation, don't be born the oldest daughter in a Yorkshire, Catholic family that thinks having feelings or needs is for wimps.

 

[Ajax Bay]

"Can't" means haven't yet done.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Things I overheard from parents often seemed to be to do with sex relationships or whatever, not that my parents were frank on such things for the phrases were kind of euphemisms.
If a pair had been going out for a while that was "courting". Told a foreign person this once and they thought it sounded positively medieval.
"Carrying on with" signified a maybe less serious relationship and was I always supposed where the title of the in/famous film series came from.

Yes, "carrying on with" was a "not-too-serious romantic relationship" thing where I lived too. "Knocking about with" also carried the same meaning round my way. So your Mum might say:

"I've not seen your friend Roberto with that Nicola from over Burnage Lane way in a while, are they still knocking about?"

 

[Gunk]

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”

 

[Hover Fly]

"Carrying on with" signified a maybe less serious relationship and was I always supposed where the title of the in/famous film series came from.

“Carry on (rank)” was an expression used by an officer after he had interrupted a NCO or junior officer, who couldn’t continue until he had the senior’ s permission. Hence the title of the first of the film series Carry on Sergeant.

 

[Saluki]

My mum often said "I was stood there like cheese at fourpence", which was explained I think by @swee'pea99 , or was it @Saluki 🤔, the other month.

Not me. Liking the phrase though.

 

[Teamfixed]

Well if that is (insert improbable/unlikely event) "then I'm a Dutch uncle"
Only ever heard this from my Father.

 

[Dave7]

If someone did something stupid..... "he's a thick as pig sh*t and twice as mucky"
Or "as thick as 2 short planks".

 

[swee'pea99]

Not me. Liking the phrase though.

Never heard that, but I love it! According to a bit of googling it comes 'from the mill towns of Lancashire, where fourpence was considered expensive for cheese hence cheese for sale at that price would not be bought.' So, say, a woman whose date failed to show up: "He left me standing there like cheese at fourpence".

 

[Asa Post]

"Rise and shine, put your warm feet on the cold floor" - from Dad's RAF days in the war. Not funny on a winter morning when I needed to get up for school and the bedroom floor was lino.

"They were the days - when kippers wore braces". Said after any reminiscence. Another one of Dad's, but he didn't have a clue what it meant. Apparently his father used to say it, and he didn't know either.