Old Sayings Of Yesteryear ?.

Do You remember some Funny/Weird sayings Your Parents ,or Grandparents would use ,when you were a Bairn ?.

I Remember a few, but the one that sticks in my mind was the one spoken by my mother.

I would be around 8 to 9 years old,dressed to go to school,and my mother would Shout:

"John!!, Have you got Clean Underwear on, Just in case your involved in an accident and need to go to Hospital for treatment..
I think to myself,' oh dread,imagine falling off my Bike when going to School and ending up in Hospital and the Nurse finding I didn't have clean underwear on,Oh the shame of it all!.

Will This Nurse not treat my Broken Leg Because My Underwear is soiled?.
Or if I was Run over by a Bus the Neighbours would say:.

"Oh Aye, He was a Nice Wee Boy, his Hair always Tidy and he was always,

"Nice And Clean".

Have You Any Old Sayings Or Advice You got from Relatives When You Were A Bairn???.

 

My dad told me one just after my first son was born, when he was giving me some comprehensive dadding advice. After telling me I should reward good behaviour at least as much as punishing bad, he came out with a cracker that I still like.

"Its easier to beat the devil into a child than it is to beat the devil out".

 

Oh no! My mother was so full of them, growing up was like conversing in cryptic clues!

Mind you, it's made certain I can never forget her: the older I get, the more those "cryptic clues" make perfect sense

"I see no ships: only hardships" (Me: aren't all ships hard? )
"If only youth knew and age still could" ( )
"It's a wise man who knows his own father"

I could go on (and on, and on and on but, I'll give someone else a chance)

Great idea for a thread

 

That one is scarily true. I've always been close to my dad, to the point he is my best mate, so I always thought I knew him. But as I get older, and especially now I'm a dad myself so I'm having to use the same bluffs (pretending to be an infallible rock etc) as he did with me, and facing the same 'on the fly' decisions about how to deal with certain parental situations as he did with me, the more I realise what sort of things he must have been thinking when I was little and how wrong I'd interpreted some of the things he said and did.

 

That is really lovely to read, clue.

Unfortunately (although, I could be wrong and she's no longer around to confirm) I think it was a bit more of a cynical saying than that In other words: we *know* who a baby's mother is because, well, she gives birth ... but, you only have *her* word for who fathered the baby (and many men have been bamboozled down the centuries).

 

My mother used one which I still use sometimes now , " well we've swapped a pig for a duck here !" . Meaning your 50 50 decision has given you , as usual , the worst option.

 

My Dad used to tell me "You've got to eat a ton of dirt before you die."

I remember thinking that would probably kill you.

 

Advice re: a poor husband - "Sell him ... and buy a pig!"

 

The one that always sticks in my mind is the observation often made by my father and the rest of the 'owd boys' sitting in the local.

Most evenings, one of us young lads would vacate the pub halfway through the evening, usually in pursuit of a hot date with a girlfriend.

The usual comment from the old 'uns in the corner of the bar was;

"That boy's off chasin' arter young girls again"

"Well, yer know what thaas like at their age; that'll draw yer further than gunpowder 'll blow yer."

 

@Trunky I want to visit your local!!!!

 

@"M" I'm going back some 30 years or more there. Alas that pub, like so many others, closed recently.

Still brings back fond memories every time I go past the place though.

 

I had to laugh at some of these I must say.

I was brought up by my aunt (my mother's older sister) as my mother died when I was seven and my Auntie always used to say (in a high-pitched Welsh accent) ... 'well, that's nice if you like that sort of thing ...' ???? To this day, my t'other half and I say that from time to time ... ... but we usually say ... 'as Auntie would say ...' ...