Got this idea from a post in the IW forum. Are there any things you remember hearing from family that you don't recall hearing anywhere else? Silly comments, and such included. I remember my grandma, swearing politely. She'd say 'mucking fuddle'. Also, she would comment on well endowed women, or women in costume dramas, 'her dumplings are boiling over'.
Things you only hear in your family.
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Peppermint Patti
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My grans saying if she thought something was rubbish was "it's all my eye and Peggy Martin". We never found out were it came from. I never heard it from anyone then or since.
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My Mum used to say 'all my eye and Betty Martin' if she thought someone was spinning a tale. 'Always had his/her back teeth awash' was someone who liked their booze (think this was a Norfolk saying, but not sure, as was 'hair like a pound of wax candles'). 'Doesn't know the letter A from a bull's foot' was another for someone who behaved stupidly.
My OH had an elderly great-auntie who we used to secretly call 'Mrs. Malaprop' - you had to work out the real meaning of what she meant. Prime examples were a neighbour now home who had spent some time in 'expensive care' at the hospital (not funny for the neighbour, but so typical of auntie's conversation), and prices that were absorbent (she meant extortionate). Can't remember all of them and she was a lovely soul, so we used to often ache with trying not to laugh while we were there.
My OH had an elderly great-auntie who we used to secretly call 'Mrs. Malaprop' - you had to work out the real meaning of what she meant. Prime examples were a neighbour now home who had spent some time in 'expensive care' at the hospital (not funny for the neighbour, but so typical of auntie's conversation), and prices that were absorbent (she meant extortionate). Can't remember all of them and she was a lovely soul, so we used to often ache with trying not to laugh while we were there.
A 'venerable' disease is something my Great Aunt Dorothy (Dot) would say. I probably shouldn't have been listening and only realised that she'd got it wrong years later.
My mum used to say that "her hair's as straight as a pound of candles" ....My mum used to say oh F & B when I asked what she meant, she just told me they short for oh flip n' blast, I later found out that they weren't lol! My grandfather (broad Devon) used to say "ee thinks 'ees body everyself" meaning someone who was full of self importance/ fancied themself I guess. And if my nan and grandad couldn't remember somebody's name they were referred to as Fred or Fanny Fanackerpan. The other memory was grandad singing this ditty that went "Little Betty Bouncer met an announcer down at the BBC"
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It must have been a thing in the early 20th century. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in either an Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers detective story. Never heard it used in real life though.
madaunty
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I know this one. I've heard it in-family too. Might even be the same Grandma.
