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Ever noticed how we hand down familiar sayings from one generation to another. Take mothers for instance. Mine used to tell me I’d understand when I had children of my own. Now I understand. Found yourself saying any of the following: I don’t care what other mothers do You don’t need makeup at your age If you don’t keep your face out the sun, your skin will be like leather by the time you are 25 Always wear clean underwear in case you are run over and have to go to hospital Never do anything with a boy you’d be ashamed for me to find out If you can’t be good be careful Neither a borrower nor a lender be There will be tears before bedtime Were you born in a tent Don’t point or whisper There are plenty more fish in the sea

Remember my mother saying never to trust a man who wears a brown suit! Oh and nice girls don't wear black underwear!

I love taking the pee out of my mum! She does it to me too! She calls me lanky and I call her short ass!

If I'd spoken to my mother like that When I was your age Don't give me that look, I invented it

I still ask my Grandsons if theyw ere born in a barn when they leave doors wide open. One of Mum's sayings. Ann Glos

how about i wish you would just....... why cant you behave like ....... does i wish you would stop answering back to adults it's rude (to that i get 'do i look bovered') i wasnt born yesterday you know gosh your so lazy get your elbows of the table what have you done to your hair i could go on & on but wont lol

I've got eyes in the back of my head If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times

What about.......... In my day...! When I was Young.... If we had dared........, We would have been for it! (usually about a screaming kid in the supermaret that isn't having what they want, and IT was a smake - must say I aggree that me and my brother would have been punished for a tamtrum) Your never too old to....... Were you born in a zoo (lack of manners) Mind your P's and Q's We'll never be able to take you to dine with the queen (my grandparents used it to get me and cousin to eat properly - we were 3 and 5 - but did we care? ) I want , never got! Waste not, want not you'll be lucky to get aDoll and a drum and a kick up the bum (for being gready in asking for things for chirstmas, birthdays etc..)

I'll give you something to cry about in a minute Wait until I get you home or wait until your father gets home!

My Mum or Dad used to say these and I still do This and Better may do this and worse will never do. Do as I say not as I do I'm the mother and what I say goes When your big enough you'll be too old. Get your feet out of the trough (When they burp) I don't want anymore back chat from you I'll only tell you once ( Usually ended up being half a dozen times though ) Looks like a flaming tornado has hit your bedroom If you don't like it then lump it. Just wait till your father gets home Up them wooden hills now. ( sent to bed) You won't be able to sit down if I get hold of you. (never did get hold of them lol) I'm sure there are heaps more, just can't get the brain working tonight. Regards Jackie

thought of another do you think it's the middle summer (shut that dam door)

You'll feel better after a nice cup of tea. Tea, give me a b****y drink!

what about....tidy that tip of a bedroom!! i got that one alot growing up now im house proud and it really annoys my mum we she comes to my house!!

'I've told you a million times - don't exaggerate!' x

What about - You treat this house like an hotel I'm not talking about (friends name), I'm talking about you I'm not made of money Your not too old for a slap round your face Madam (when I was a belligerent teeenager!)

'Let me just wave my magic wand, and make it appear out of no where!'

My mother - 'If you don't eat your crusts your hair won't grow curly' 'That look on your face will turn the milk sour' 'If you pull a face like that the wind might change and it will stay like that for ever.' My grandmother 'I hate to see young girls standing around idle.'

I DONT KNOW WHY, but My nan used to say'' he is the best boy, in the girls, school'' wonder what she meant? Bob

My mother used to trot out lots of those already mentioned. Some of her other ones were - If you're born in a field, it doesn't make you a horse. (She was born in Wales, but not Welsh, she said, because her parents families were from England and Scotland.) Were you born in a field? (if you left a door open) (My answer to that was 'Why, weren't you there?') There's many a slip twixt cup and lip. (I never did work that one out!) Make hay while the sun shines. (We lived in the middle of London!) There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. Look before you leap. He who hesitates is lost. (Which seem to negate each other!) A stitch in time saves nine. 20 years ago ... (Still the same saying 10 years later!) If I knew then what I know now ... (Very annoyingly, she never finished that sentence!) Red hat - no drawers! (So why did she keep knitting me red woolly hats???) You're just like your father! (No, mother, I'm a girl!!!) You're neither use nor ornament. (A rum one, considering I look just like her!) I may be cabbage-looking, but I'm not green. (OK, so there are red cabbages!) Fat costs the same as lean! (... as I was gagging on a lump of it in my dinner) May God forgive you, because I never will. What time do you call this? (When I came home at 9.30 p m one night - I was 19!) (Said in her nightgown and curlers) I was just going to the Police station to see where you were! (I never did work out why standing, waiting for a bus home for half-an-hour was an arrestable offence!) CB >|<