Expressions your parents used

[samhexum]

These were some of my mom's expressions I remember from when I was a young'n:

 

1. (About my father) He may not always be right, but he's never wrong.

 

2. (He/she has) Klass with a capital K.

 

3. (Instead of damn or fuck when frustrated) Your father's mustache! (he was always clean-shaven)

 

4. (He's a) Big shot, dot the i. (somebody with an inflated sense of self-worth)

 

What are some of the expressions you remember your parents using when you were young?

 

BTW, did you notice that those expressions all seem to be applicable to Trump?

Edited November 14, 2020 by samhexum

[jeezifonly]

On a cranky toddler

“He’s so tired, he doesn’t know whether to shit or go bowling”

 

On appetite

“I’m so hungry I could eat the asshole off a skunk!”

 

On rebellious procrastination

“Right now, young man, before I rip your leg off and beat you over the head with it”

 

On ignorance

“...doesn’t know shit from Shinola”

“...couldn’t find his own asshole without a bloodhound”

 

There were more, but often they involved made-up German-Yiddish nonsense or onomatopoeias.

[samhexum]

On a cranky toddler

“He’s so tired, he doesn’t know whether to shit or go bowling”

 

On appetite

“I’m so hungry I could eat the asshole off a skunk!”

 

So your mother was a delicate, dainty little thing who never cursed, right? Or was she a truck driver?

 

 

“...doesn’t know shit from Shinola”

 

I've always said "When it comes to country music, I don't know shit from Shania."

[jeezifonly]

So your mother was a delicate, dainty little thing who never cursed, right? Or was she a truck driver?

 

 

 

 

I've always said "When it comes to country music, I don't know shit from Shania."

Mom was a good driver, and in her day would have given a truck a go...

The ones I highlighted here are the ones you wouldn’t hear on the Patty Duke Show... we also heard lots of cleaner pearls of wisdom.

 

Shania wasn’t even born when I heard that “shit from” expression... but it was rooted in more concrete visual, as Shinola was an early and popular brand of shoe polish.

[+ Oliver]

Mother, when awed - "My stars!"

 

Father - "A child could do it if it knew how."

[+ sync]

Until I began school I thought my name was "now you listen here!"

[Danny-Darko]

"For Pete's sake!"

 

Till this day I have no idea who the hell Pete was and why things were done for his sake.

[KrisParr]

For crying out loud ...

Honest to John ...

Confoundit (never did understand that one)

[+ jeezopete]

According to Mom:

 

"You're S-O-L" (shit outta luck)

"Up shit creek without a paddle"

"Right before the at" (This response broke my habit of asking, "Where's the milk at?", Where are my shoes at?")

 

And of course..... "Jeezopete!"

[+ Cock Eyed Optimist]

 

 

On ignorance

“...doesn’t know shit from Shinola”

“...couldn’t find his own asshole without a bloodhound”

 

There were more, but often they involved made-up German-Yiddish nonsense or onomatopoeias.

 

I still use the shit/Shinola expression. Hmmm....do they still make Shinola?

[+ Cock Eyed Optimist]

And to describe a muscle Dude:

 

"He is built like a brick shit house!"

[KrisParr]

I still use the shit/Shinola expression. Hmmm....do they still make Shinola?

 

The shoe polish went out of business in the 60s, but the name was purchased as an online retail outlet as Shinola dot com.

[jeezifonly]

The shoe polish went out of business in the 60s, but the name was purchased as an online retail outlet as Shinola dot com.

I heard about that website - checked it out, and please... they didn’t have shit... ?

[KrisParr]

I heard about that website - checked it out, and please... they didn’t have shit... ?

 

Hmmm ... I thought the $150 leather football was kind of cool.

 

[+ MysticMenace]

Growing up, my mother was the typical yeller, caller out of wrongdoings, and punisher - examples of which were kneeling on rock salt, balancing 5 heavy books per hand and on the head while squatting, and chewing down small chilis to name a few. She does not have unique verbal expressions per se, but she always had that mad, crazy-eye stare when she's about to foreshadow my impending demise later that day. I think mom loves me now.

[Danny-Darko]

And to describe a muscle Dude:

 

"He is built like a brick shit house!"

 

I remember my father's friends and other adult males use that expression to describe a fit well stacked in the chest woman!

 

 

For crying out loud ...

 

"For crying out loud" My brother-in-law is a New Yorker and grew up there during the 50's he uses this expression.

[samhexum]

Growing up, my mother was the typical yeller, caller out of wrongdoings, and punisher - examples of which were kneeling on rock salt, balancing 5 heavy books per hand and on the head while squatting, and chewing down small chilis to name a few. She does not have unique verbal expressions per se, but she always had that mad, crazy-eye stare when she's about to foreshadow my impending demise later that day. I think mom loves me now.

 

I remember your mom's screen debut.

 

[+ Charlie]

Whenever there was a lull in conversation, my mother always said, "It must be twenty of or twenty after." I never understood where that came from.

[Luv2play]

The Real McCoy (as in not a cheap knockoff)

elbow grease (hard work)

mucky muck (pretentious)

floozy (loose woman)

confirmed bachelor (I ended up that way and I never heard her say it again)

[+ Lucky]

My mom loved to say "Clean your plate! There are children starving in China."

[Danny-Darko]

My mom loved to say "Clean your plate! There are children starving in China."

 

My mother used to say the same thing but in India or in Africa! Once my sister replied "then send it to them!" and she won herself a slap.. ?

[+ sync]

My mom loved to say "Clean your plate! There are children starving in China."

When my mom said that, she grabbed all the marbles with "there are children starving in the world."

[+ Charlie]

My mom loved to say "Clean your plate! There are children starving in China."

Phyllis Diller said her response to her mother was, "Name one."

[rustyrex]

I heard this one after a parent teacher conference.

 

“That lady couldn’t teach a baby how to shit.”

[+ Oliver]

My mother used to say the same thing but in India or in Africa! Once my sister replied "then send it to them!" and she won herself a slap.. ?

We must be related! My sister did the same - ONCE!