Sayings Our Parents Used; Do you use them now?

Make hay while the sun shines! was a common phrase, meaning do it now while the opportunity is ripe. When hay is cut and windrowed it can't be rained on,so once the hay was dry it was all hands on deck till t was in the barn.

My uncle upon finishing a job before gathering his tools or cleaning up often would say, "Ain't naught left, but to pizz on the fire and call in the dawgs!"
 

robusta said:
make hay while the sun shines! Was a common phrase, meaning do it now while the opportunity is ripe. When hay is cut and windrowed it can't be rained on,so once the hay was dry it was all hands on deck till t was in the barn.

My uncle upon finishing a job before gathering his tools or cleaning up often would say, "ain't naught left, but to pizz on the fire and call in the dawgs!"
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lol
 
My Dad was a very easy going man raised on a farm who thought kids should play like kids, & when Mom thought we were being too rowdy he'd say "do what you want as long as you don't scare the horses." We didn't have any horses but he grew up with them.
 
Geezerette said:
My Dad was a very easy going man raised on a farm who thought kids should play like kids, & when Mom thought we were being too rowdy he'd say "do what you want as long as you don't scare the horses." We didn't have any horses but he grew up with them.
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Hahahahaha!
 
Another I haven't heard in a long time, but met someone whose manner reminded me of it . If mom & gram met someone who they thought was too uppity or not open & honest they would say "butter wouldn't melt in her mouth" suggesting a really cold person. Anyone else heard or used this one?
 
My late wife's grandmother used to have a brilliant saying. Whenever there was an annoying sound, perhaps a motorist sitting on their horn. She would shout "What else did you get for Christmas?"
 
" I brought you into this world... I'll take you out" YIKES

"I hope your children pay you back 10 times for what you've done to me"... It worked... the quintessential mother's curse.


My aunt used to say "you're full of canal water" when she thought someone was BSing



My Mother in Law.... "he's having a calf with a crocheted tail" when someone was having a fit or tantrum


OR..... "drunk as a bicycle".... for someone fall down drunk.
 
My mom used to say in her mother tongue, when someone said something that was ridiculous yet funny: "May you get kicked by a duck!"

Also, if we were laughing too much and carrying on: "He who laughs too much on Friday, will cry on Sunday."
 
Cookie said:
My mom used to say in her mother tongue, when someone said something that was ridiculous yet funny: "May you get kicked by a duck!"

Also, if we were laughing too much and carrying on: "He who laughs too much on Friday, will cry on Sunday."
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My mother had a version of that "laughing" saying... "Laugh before breakfast, cry before bedtime"
 
Another one I used to hear was "Cat got your tongue?". I didn't hear it much because I wasn't quiet too often.
 
I remember that one!! I wonder where these phrases originated from?
 

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