Expressions my grandparents used

[gamboolman]

My Grandparents was born in late 1890's and my Grandfather would say "Whoa Nelly" when slowing the truck down. when he was speeding up he would say "Giddy Up".

And you kids are "running around like Chickens with their heads cut off" - which we saw regularly when my Grandfather would get one or two of the Chickens and chop their heads off on the Saw Horse and then we would watch the Chicken run around with its head cut off. But my Grandmother was a wonderful cook and she could fry up the chicken(s).

I remember my Grandfather calling scorpions "Stinging Lizards" after he got stung by one that was in a feed sack. It made him sick.

"Kick Like a Mule" - One time my Grandmother got very upset with me when I was 7 or 8 and I was in the pasture and I was harassing the Mules. She came and got me and was very upset as she said the Mules would kick me.

 

[spookycat2]

Think I've seen most of my family's old sayings here... interesting how our families came about. Fun times, hard times, they found their way through.

 

[spookycat2]

You'd B...complain if you was hung with a new rope.

LOL... this reminds me of my last convo with my ex, back in '13... Me- "If I were to find a f-ing pot of Gold, you'd be totally unhappy that it was the not the right shade of Gold"... this made her laugh, with a bit of pride. lolz
Pardon my 'French, that convo got pretty heated!

 

[Capt Lightning]

My Glaswegian grandfather used to say, You're an auld bumstick, meaning , I think, having head full of nonsense.

 

[Feelslikefar]

Grandparents were hard-core Southern, so I heard things like:

'Give MeMa some Sugar' when we went to visit.

When us boys would say something mean to each other, we'd hear 'Don't be Ugly'.

When asked why she didn't want us playing near the house down the road, MeMa would say
the person who lived there was 'Touched'. (her way of saying he wasn't quite right in the head...)

Tons more like these.

 

[JBR]

My mother had a saying when she was upset: “Im so mad I could spit nails!”

I have a couple of twin sisters-in-law in Alberta (a Canadian province). One of them has said of the other, more than once, "she was so mad she was spittin' bullets!"

 

[oldman]

My Mom used to use an old Pennsylvania Dutch adage “Gott in Himmel,” which translates to “God in Heaven.”
She used this saying when something shocked or surprised her.

 

[Born_To_Lose]

I remember my granddad would get really upset about anything the local sheriff would do to one of his sons or my uncles. The sheriff was the only law officer in a very small town. He liked to hand out tickets for most anything. My uncle Wib got a ticket for having a headlight out. Granddad called the sheriff and asked him if he was trying to bankrupt us. And then he would add, you crazy old fart.

 

[HazyDavey]

My Dad had one.. Don't go at it like you're kill'in snakes.

 

[JB in SC]

My granddad was terse and to the point, the phrase “he ain’t worth a burnt match” I heard a time or two.

 

[Pappy]

If someone did grandpa a favor, he would say “much obliged.”

 

[fuzzybuddy]

My grandfather always called my grandmother "the woman". Yup, she was his "woman". If us grandkids wanted to do something, we had to go ask "the woman". She called him, "Joe", but my grandfather never used her name, she was always the "woman".

 

[Aunt Bea]

My grandmother’s old farmhouse had a wrap around front porch with a spectacular view of the surrounding countryside.

People always used to sit relaxing and comment on the ‘million dollar view’

My grandfather would always answer back; “Ya can’t eat the view!”