Our parent's sayings

[dobielvr]

'A tall drink of water'.......dad would call big tall guys.

 

[spectratg]

"Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?"

 

[RadishRose]

"Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?"

...not if it's in cans!

 

[bowmore]

My dad always spoke to his dad in Yiddish. None of us ever knew what they were saying, but we would repeat the words, anyway. It always made our grandfather laugh.

I have a small dictionary of Yiddish sayings. My favorite is "They should be reincarnated as a chandelier, to hang and burn at the same time::

 

[Geezer Garage]

My dad when running stop signs, which he did with great frequency, would always say " It's alright, I'll stop twice next time".

 

[perplexed]

My mama would say "If your friends jumped in the Ouachita river would you join them and wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up the fastest. She had a ton of sayings lol.

 

[NorthernLight]

"What will the neighbors think?"

 

[win231]

When I was 19, my dad had a friend who owned a business. My dad helped him with some legal stuff.
The friend complained about one outside salesman who wasn't selling much.
My dad said, "I told you to get rid of him last year; he couldn't sell p---- in a logging camp on payday."

 

[Ruthanne]

My mother would say "two wrongs don't make a right"

 

[grahamg]

My mother would say "two wrongs don't make a right"

More on the same theme,quote:

"2 negatives make a positive through multiplication.

2 negatives make a negative through addition.

Two wrongs make two wrongs through addition.

Two wrongs do not multiply, you add them together."

Then there is this poem to throw into the mix:

"Differences of opinion" by Wendy Cope.

"He tells her"

He tells her that the world is flat-
He knows the facts and that is that,
In altercations fierce and long,
She tries her best to prove him wrong,
But he has learned to argue well,
Her arguments he calls unsound,
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

The planet goes on being round.

 

[s76l42]

My Grandma always said pay yourself first. My sweet Aunt said vote or don't complain. Several family members said do you want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about.

 

[Chet]

My father would say "Make it your last" when I screwed up. Of course it wasn't.

My mother would say, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you follow them?".

 

[JustDave]

My father said he "lived one day at a time." I always thought that was silly. Like what other option is there?

 

[grahamg]

My father said he "lived one day at a time." I always thought that was silly. Like what other option is there?

Its a good idea though "not to get ahead of yourself"!

 

[grahamg]

"Strike while the iron is hot"!

("an oldie but goodie" used by both my parents quite a lot, and still heard today of course!)

 

[grahamg]

"There's no flies on him/her"!

 

[Sassycakes]

I don't know if this belongs here but I say it almost every day to my daughter.

 

[grahamg]

"Let the dog see the rabbit"!

(You dont hear this one so much now do you )

 

[grahamg]

"If your brains were made of dynamite they wouldn't blow your hat off"!

(Ditto, not heard so much nowadays, maybe because telling anyone just how stupid they are is frowned upon? )

 

[grahamg]

"Possession is nine tenths of the law"!

(one of my mothers favourite sayings)

 

[grahamg]

"Sky-blue-pink".

(My parents used to talk about this, I guess just a nonsense saying, certainly there's no such colour obviously,..., is there?)

 

[dobielvr]

"Sky-blue-pink".

(My patents used to talk about this, I guess just a nonsense saying, certainly there's no such colour obviously,..., is there?)

Well, those are the colors I use in decorating my home..

 

[palides2021]

"Sky-blue-pink".

(My parents used to talk about this, I guess just a nonsense saying, certainly there's no such colour obviously,..., is there?)

Yes! I remember seeing a blue sky with streaks of pink while driving through the mountains to our home on early evenings. I think it was an ethereal pink. Maybe orange was in there somewhere. It was the most beautiful sight to see.

Picture of a pink sky

 

[Disgustedman]

"If your brains were made of dynamite they wouldn't blow your hat off"!

(Ditto, not heard so much nowadays, maybe because telling anyone just how stupid they are is frowned upon? )

I've told people they're as sharp as a bowling ball.

Their two brain cells are fighting for 3rd place.

if someone put your brain on a razor, it's like putting a pea on an 8 lane highway.

if life was truly fair, you'd walk on all fours.

 

[J-Kat]

My mom told me that “a dog that brings a bone will also take a bone” meaning if someone gossips to you, they will gossip about you to someone else.