Our parent's sayings

"You cant deal with liars"!

This was my mother again, talking about my father I seem to remember, though he only said "Its wrong to lie, but now and again they are handy", (so he wasn't the worst person in this regard, and he also said, "A lie never sits right", in your mind, or memory).
 

"You are not as green as you are cabbage looking"! 🥬

(actually this one was a quip used by a work colleague, "back in the day" :) ).
 

My Husbands Mom always told him he was Backward.The first time she said it to me about him I thought she meant he wasn't forward. That he was more on the quiet side. She said NO ! My 2 older sons are smart and he is dumb.She said that's what Backward means ! I just had to laugh !
 
"Up in the morning is the game"!

"You cant keep a good man, (or woman) down"!

"You should live a long time, because they cant kill weeds"!

(these are repeats maybe and there are a few others, and I know this because yesterday I started the task of looking back over the fifteen thread pages to see how many times I might have repeated one of these sayings, and I can give you a preview snippet that yes there are a few repeats, out of my forty or so posts in the first third of the thread pages, though none more than twice so far, I'll come back to you with more details in case you're interested, or wish to guess the most often posted saying)
 
"He wants his cake and bun"

(my father using bastardisation of the phrase "Wanting your cake and eat it", meaning someone who wants things all their own way, or wanting things both ways! :) ).
 
"He/she is a barefaced liar"!

Definition: "One who tells blatantly obvious or impudent untruths easily and with little or no attempt to disguise the lie."
(one of my mother's again, on this subject)
 
Gaer said:
An old song my Dad used tosing.
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I've another saying or comment my parents used to use I don't think I've posted before(?), and it is:

"Bread and butter",
(describing something "thusly" means its easy or straightforward to them, ..., you don't hear it said so often nowadays do you)
 
"Bullsh*t baffles brains"!

(dont think this was used by my parents, certainly not my mother who hardly ever swore, so I think I heard it at work first, and quite often, where there were alot of people proficient in the art I seem to remember :whistle: ). :ROFLMAO::rolleyes:
 
I don't remember if I posted this one. My mother used to say "Make yourself satisfied!" I guess I was almost a senior before I understood why she said it and what she meant.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I don't remember if I posted this one. My mother used to say "Make yourself satisfied!" I guess I was almost a senior before I understood why she said it and what she meant.
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I must say I didn't understand it myself until I did an internet search, and now I'm convinced your mother's wise words were truly worth your while listening to, even though it took time to fully appreciate them! :)
 

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