Do you have any favorite family sayings?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

When my granddaughter was three she looked at the broccoli on her plate and declared, "I can't like that." This has ever since become a favorite family saying.

[two gun sid]

1. I have two...

"I hate fuckin' republicans!" and "George W. Bush is a goddamn pigfucker!". My family says both of those a lot.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

4. Hey, we must be related!!

[luvLLB]

33. as hard as the preacher's peter...

thanks for the memories, Granny.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. when I was a kid

the biggest scandal in town was about the preacher and our married Sunday school teacher. Her kids were our friends and thinking back, they must have been mortified.
Great line. Never heard that one before.

[Canadian Socialist]

2. Do not

slam Drambuie

[Canadian Socialist]

9. replying to myself

Next thing you know, there's cats in the house.

Please don't ask me where that comes from.

Oh, almost forgot. Our family reunions motto has been, for years, an old stand by:
Stop. Drop. And roll.

Again, don't ask.

[Arkana]

3. A favorite of my dad's side is "WTF is THIS shit?"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. Spoken like a true Masshole!

:hi:

One needs to get in at least two expletives for effect!

[Arkana]

15. Yes, don't we?

That side of the family was never known for subtlety anyway.

[lastknowngood]

5. Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin'

n/t

[steve2470]

6. "I didn't know him/her from Adam's housecat" - my mother's fave nt

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. My mother says the same thing except:

"I don't know him/her from Adam"

[xmas74]

7. My daughter recently said that Bush was a prick.

(she's four and doesn't understand what it means).

[sendero]

8. My grandmother..

... who was half Cherokee, used to say: wish in one hand and sh** in the other and see which one fills up first"

Full of ancient wisdom, that woman :)

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. "That tastes like ass"

I've often been curious about the origin of this saying and the basis of comparison.

[Reverend_Smitty]

22. We use that one too...

we also use smells like ass.

A recent favorite..."you act like a man with a paper asshole" I bought a book called "Watch your Fucking language" and I was reading some off and that one seemed to resonate with my family. Basically it means grow a pair, ya pansy!

What can I say I grew up in a family of potty mouths

[nytemare]

13. "Beauty people"

This started in the 70's with my sister. Anytime we would see a somewhat homely looking person we would say "Beauty man" or "Beauty lady". We call each other "Beauty sister". It is somewhat amusing.

(psst...it was Ollie who said that to Stan) :)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

19. yes, oddly enough whenever anyone in my family

screwed up, someone would always say, "Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Ollie!" So it stuck as one of my favorite sayings. But you are correct, Ollie was always blaming Stan for his goof ups.

[nytemare]

29. Ahhhh, so it is YOUR family saying!!

Cool! :)

[Briarius]

14. All of this could have been yours

refering to how the original homestead was sold off. That and no birthday is complete without a monkey card :D

[tinfoilinfor2005]

26. we still exchange chia pets for gag gifts for holidays

and...my mother was into Avon which the guys hated (the shaving lotion) so every Christmas they would pawn off their old bottles of Avon on each other. Back and forth would go the Avon after shave. :)

[phusion]

16. Like a pot calling a kettle black...

And, my grandma likes to say "There are more XXXX here than Carter has little liver pills."

I forgot, for little kids in cars: "sit down, shut up, and buckle up."

[fleabert]

17. "you're right, i'm wrong, I'm sorry."

A favorite saying of my grandfather's, and his secret to 50 years of marriage!

[proud patriot]

18. "It could be worse ....It could be raining"

My dad and I saw Young Frankenstein one rainy
afternoon on a weekend camping trip gone awry
when I was a kid . We've used it ever since .

We also call Instructions, Destructions :crazy:

another is

when someone asks "what's for dinner?" I say
"Food" when they ask "what kind of food?" I reply
"good Food" :evilgrin:

those are the sayings I can think of right now :shrug:

[Southsideirish]

20. "Never trouble trouble, til trouble troubles you, cuz if you trouble

trouble, it will double trouble you.!"

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. Our family word for ...

mammaries.....

I was about 12, and had been reading too many of mom's romance novels. I walked up to my dad, proudly thrust out my (still non-burgeoning) chest, and said, "Dad? Am I voluptuous?"

He told me I needed to get some volups first. }(

Mom and I still chuckle and call them that.
FSC

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

my husband's Irish grandmother would say. It never made any sense to me, though, LOL.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. "get up and get out and good night" said by my youngest

sister when I went to get her out of our parents' bed and into her own bed one night when I was babysitting..she was about four..and she wanted to go to sleep.


I'm not asleep, I am just resting my eyes


My mom used to say "I didn't know her from Adams off ox"

also:

Hell's Bells and Panther tracks

=my little sister also referred to the TV as the telemenish, we still call it that

[SuffragetteSal]

25. from my mom 'idle hands...make for the devil's workshop'

It got real tiring hearing this growing up...

[sphincter]

27. My beloved dad...

...has a way with words, although it may not be the most appropriate phrases always. 2 all-time favourites are:

"Son, anything is possible with a little bit of violence and vaseline"

and

"That's the way a p***y should smell !!!"

[MidwestMomma]

28. Chuck you, Lucky Charms

But just since yesterday when we watched the TV edited version of 'The Leprechaun'. :)

Our family sayings come and go. We all have very short attention spans.

[kitkatrose]

30. Several things I've never heard anywhere else.

1. "Name your big toe mamma and you'll have one of your own." Basically, stop your whining and STFU.

2. "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China???" Brought to us by my late aunt. :(

[tinfoilinfor2005]

32. never heard the first one

But the price of Tea in China was one of our favorites too. Sometimes it would get fancied up, such as "What has that got to do with the price of peanuts in Pensacola?"

[Seabiscuit]

31. "Home again, home again, jiggedy jig"

[luvLLB]

34. as hard as the preacher's peter...

thanks for the memories, Granny!

[MissMillie]

35. Whenever someone says "Go ahead"

We usually respond by saying "Did you just call me a goat head?"

[loudestchick]

36. We're forever threatening to "Come down on you, like a duck on a Junebug"

or "Pound you into the ground, like a tentpeg!"

[Padraig18]

37. "Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes down to the bone"

:P

[Kire]

38. Time for Poopsie

The meaning is a family secret.

If I tell you, it's 'til death do us part.

[China_cat]

39. My grandmother's was

'wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which gets full the fastest'.

[AlCzervik]

40. i have 2

when my mother would come into my room she used to stand there, look around and say..."this room looks like the hell hole of Calcutta!" and my Dad used to say to me whenever i coughed...."It wasn't the cough that carried her off, it was the coffin they carried her off in"...nice huh/ I was like 5 when he started saying that.

[Bertha Venation]

41. Damnit, we can't have nice things.

Actually stolen from Paula Poundstone (spoken by her mother after young Paula broke a Flintstones jelly glass).

[Bertha Venation]

42. Also, this, spoken as one word: Shit-fuck-n-damn.

Speaks for itself.

[BigMcLargehuge]

43. corsico (sounds like "koodeesh") - the granddaddy of Portuguese swears

actually means "thunder and lightning", but Vavao would always slap us when we said it.

Babooze - someone who does something stupid. "Nice work hitting your thumb with the hammer you Babooze..."

Iscadnent (sounds like "ishkidnint") - being a tease or a pain in the ass: "You're being a little iscadnent!"

[tinfoilinfor2005]

45. My husbands favorites (from his dad's side)...

"I haven't seen that since Jake was a pup"
or when the kids were very bad..."I'll show you where Jake shit!"
I guess it was an implied threat because they were always afraid to see "where Jake shit"...:)

[kiraboo]

46. "You don't know shit from Shinola!" from my Mom's side o' the family.

I have to admit it's true. I don't know what "Shinola" is!
Also "You're cruisin' for a bruisin'". Not politically correct I know.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

47. I think it is shoe polish?

[Beaverhausen]

48. "Care for a roll?" "No, but I'll dance with you later."

My father said this once at dinner and now EVERY time we get together and rolls are passed around he says it...or someone else does. :crazy:

[Magrittes Pipe]

49. You're a favorite family saying.

[Strawman]

50. my grandmother: "Redder than Toby's ass"

Usage: "Put on some sunblock before you go outside or you'll end up redder than Toby's ass."

To this day I have no idea what the story was behind that saying, who Toby was or why his ass was so red. I just searched Google to make sure it didn't have some terrible meaning that I was unaware of before posting. No results.

My grandma was a real character. One of her most common directives to me as a boy was "Hey assy, go get me my fags," which meant that I should bring her cigarettes (Pall Mall's with no filters).

[Bunny]

51. Guess what? Chicken butt.

My family said that when we were kids, we still say it now - 40 years later!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

54. My grandson used to say that to his sister...

and my husband has called her Chickenbutt ever since. I'm not sure he even remembers her real name :).

[fleabert]

67. My hsuband says that all the time! It always makes me giggle.

[WeRQ4U]

52. My dad comes up with a new one every damn day...

"No use separating the piss from the shit" - Who cares

"If, Dog, Rabbit" - Reply to "what if" questions

"Can't find your ass with both hands" - Dumbass

He also calls some people "fuzzy nuts"

[fishnfla]

53. How long you boys been drinking?

budweiser beer sir


"Occifer, we dont want any haffles 'round here"

"shut up when you're talkin' to me"

Where you boys been?
Out, Ma'!
Out where?
Outside, ma'.

There'll be no more dents in any more cars, ya' hear?

Mrs. X, your son has been kicked out of school....
Thats funny, he's done been kicked out of the house for weeks, what took you so long?

[Lisa]

55. "at least you don't have to live with him/her"

My mom's standard response if any of us had a day wrecked by an encounter with a disagreeable person.

[Nikia]

56. My grandmother's words gave me strength at school

"When people make fun of you, they do it because they are jealous of you."
I know that is not true in some cases, but often for the situations that I faced at school, it was true.

[Thor_MN]

57. You make a better door than a window

for "you are blocking my view, move it or sit down."

If you keep asking for things, by about the third request, you will get "How ya fixed for socks and underwear?"

[AngryAmish]

58. A healthy lung is the Devil's playground

very pro-smoking

[tinfoilinfor2005]

59. Wow, these are priceless...

I wish I had a couple of thousand of these from all over the country...wouldn't that make a great coffee table book?

[aQuArius]

60. Those G** D*** F****** Republicans!

Only we know what all the asterisks mean (top secret family code).

[kodi]

61. "are you my daddy?"

with apologises to the wayan brothers

[kwassa]

62. I'm TARD

this comes from a Scrabble game with some friends of our relatives on the Eastern Shore.

One young lady spelled out T-A-R-D.

When asked what it meant, she explained, you know, when you get sleepy, you get TARD. (This is how the word is pronounced over there, an accurate phonetic representation).

[kwassa]

64. Just between you, me, and the lamp post

Uncle Arthur had all these expressions that were basically slang from the 1940s.

"Everyone has to get their oar in!"

"One foot in the bag!"

[Left Is Write]

63. "It's just what I ever wanted!"

My brother said that upon opening a Christmas present nearly thirty years ago, and it's been an oft-used family saying ever since.

He's also responsible for "Chucky Fried Chicken" and "Parmes" (you know, that grated cheese you sprinkle on pasta - my mother would always ask him if he wanted Parmesan, and he thought she was saying "Parmes on").

[tinfoilinfor2005]

65. My kids always thought their daddy "Hung the Moon"...

I have heard two friends of mine from Kentucky use this saying and I just love it. I guess it was common in that area.

[fleabert]

66. "I'm gonna put you up on the roof if you don't settle down!"

Usually followed by tickling fest.

My grandpa is 6'8", and could have put us there easily if he wanted to...never did though. It scared me when I was little, but when I got a little bigger, I asked him to, but he would just laugh at me.

also:
My mom:
I am so mad I could spit!
Remember who you are.

my grandma:
Time cools, time clarifies.

My mother in law:
Some people...you give them a ride and they want to drive.

[qnr]

68. three spring to mind

My younger sister, to me, while drinking a Mt. Dew: "It does! It does tickle my ears!" (a reference to an old jingle "It tickles your innards")

My youngest sister when I was too busy to help her with tying her shoes: "I used you help you get dressed when you were younger!"

Youngest sister again, IRT Christmas: "I wanna see my presidents!"

[Eagle_Eye]

69. That will fly down your throat, and you will choke!

Usually heard when children are inflating balloons or making annoying sounds blowing on something

[tinfoilinfor2005]

70. This isn't going to end well...

was my mother's standard line when I was being a brat.

[Solly Mack]

71. "I'm so hungry I could eat the ass-end of a rag doll"

Not really a favorite...just heard it a lot growing up...

"Sam Martin's oldest daughter"

"Shit, fire, fuzzy"

[CornField]

72. Beware the pink Doritos!

This stemmed from a night when my brother's friends(?) brought him home in his car -- he was passed out in the backseat after a night of Cowboy Kool-Aid and Doritos. They left him. Mom discovered him the next morning lying in "pink Doritos" (All together now... EWWWWWWWWW!)

Said to children: "Keep your nose out of grown folk's business."

Also said to wild-acting children: "When you fall and break your neck, don't come crying to me!"

[SOteric]

73. My father always says... "If you're gonna dream, dream big."

and my mother used to say "Some other mother has a nice son/daughter too."