Our parent's sayings

I only had one problem when at the dinner table....I am very picky when it comes to food....When my Mom put the food on the table, I mostly
wouldn't eat the meat....Only salad.....My Dad always wanted me to eat mostly a piece of meat....So if I didn't eat the meat, I would excuse myself
and go up to my room....My Dad would come to see if I was OK....He tried to tell me meat is good for you....So one day my Mom put a huge
chicken on the table....Dad said, come on now, Pat, try the chicken....I liked chicken from that moment...…. Dad was pleased.....
I still don't eat meat....My husband doesn't care, as long as I make him meat......Ha Ha....
 
peppermint said:
I only had one problem when at the dinner table....I am very picky when it comes to food....When my Mom put the food on the table, I mostly
wouldn't eat the meat....Only salad.....My Dad always wanted me to eat mostly a piece of meat....So if I didn't eat the meat, I would excuse myself
and go up to my room....My Dad would come to see if I was OK....He tried to tell me meat is good for you....So one day my Mom put a huge
chicken on the table....Dad said, come on now, Pat, try the chicken....I liked chicken from that moment...…. Dad was pleased.....
I still don't eat meat....My husband doesn't care, as long as I make him meat......Ha Ha....
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"Let's be clear", a lot do like meat! :whistle: .
 

Aunt Marg said:
We got that one a ton! :)

I'm convinced that old saying was moms favourite! LOL!
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I get so lost as to the sayings I've already quoted, or which thread I'm supposed to be on!?!

Did I say I once called a young vicar, or minister he was an "old goat"!

He ne er forgot it, or let me forget it, but never held it against me, (I think he'd been teasing me, hence the outburst).

Don't think mum was particularly pleased with me that day. 🤕.
 
Here is another one of my dads sayings, (apologies if I've used it before and forgotten):

"Sit on a low bough, and sing a low tune" as a maxim for life!

A similar one in meaning is:, "Be Mr. Nobody with a bob in your pocket" (now I do remember posting that one somewhere, and saying for US citizens for "bob" read "dollar". 🙃🧐 ).
 
My maternal grandfather had many saying he used in his long life, reaching ninety seven years of age, and staying very fit and well till near the end.

He used to say this: "Live your life as though you may die tomorrow, and farm as though you'll live forever!"

What he might have made of current times I can only imagine, though having lived through two world wars, been a special constable during the second one, and serving as a local councillor for over thirty years. He did say this though, that is obviously coming true forty years after his death, that "economic depressions" would happen again as he'd experienced and could not be stopped! 🕰🇬🇧 .👨‍🦳
 
My sister and I have a collection of things we call "Momisms."
My mother was always confusing words She said, "I'm gonna call the head poncho."
We were shopping for a New Year's outfit for her and she told the sales clerk that she wanted a "lamaze" blouse. I said, "Mom, you want a lamé blouse. Lamaze is a birthing method." "Whatever," she replied "And I'll need one of those pop-up bras."
That story is truly one of our favorites!
 
LindaB said:
My sister and I have a collection of things we call "Momisms."
My mother was always confusing words She said, "I'm gonna call the head poncho."
We were shopping for a New Year's outfit for her and she told the sales clerk that she wanted a "lamaze" blouse. I said, "Mom, you want a lamé blouse. Lamaze is a birthing method." "Whatever," she replied "And I'll need one of those pop-up bras."
That story is truly one of our favorites!
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There was a tv star in the 1970s here in the UK called Hilda Baker, who made her comedy career out of similar misspoken words! :) .
 
peppermint said:
Everyone has their thing.....
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My father had yet another saying, (apologies if I've posted it earlier and forgotten!):
He used to say, "Its a long road without any turning"! :unsure: .
When you think about it he wasn't wrong about any roads or freeways, but his meaning was much deeper than that, and your luck may change, or people may change their minds, or whatever it might be will pass one day.
 
win231 said:
My dad was born in Russia & grew up in Chicago. He was a defense attorney for several big mobsters. Most of his sayings came from his clients & are too dirty to post here. But I remember "Make yourself useful" before telling us to do something.
His favorite one was "He's fulla s---."
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Tough gig I'd have thought, defending guys like that, but I suppose they weren't all bad(?). :unsure: .
Lincoln made his name defending people accused of serious crimes didn't he, and his speeches and sayings still resonate today don't they.
 
My parents didn't have many expressions that I recall. When my mother was upset with me she'd say "you'd better straighten up and fly right."

My grandpa would say "that old dog won't hunt" when he was skeptical about something.
 
My dad's favorite saying was : "The dog would have caught the rabbit if he hadn't stopped to pee"
Three other of his favorites were "I see said the blind man"
"There's a pony under there somewhere"-part of the famous barnyard joke
"Let's play it by ear"- A saying I say just about everyday myself.
 
MarkinPhx said:
My dad's favorite saying was : "The dog would have caught the rabbit if he hadn't stopped to pee"
Three other of his favorites were "I see said the blind man"
"There's a pony under there somewhere"-part of the famous barnyard joke
"Let's play it by ear"- A saying I say just about everyday myself.
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The second one you mentioned is so simple, yet so subtle too, and brings back memories from my childhood, when I didn't realise what it meant, and how the mickey was being taken out of me, but they are all good aren't they. :).
 
After my brother picked up a hooker on Hollywood Blvd & got a venereal disease, my dad said, "Ya sleep with dogs, ya get fleas."
 
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it" was a saying of my parents!

I doubt they were trying to encourage smoking, and think they were being a bit belligerent, (in a nice way though. :whistle: ).
 

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