Expressions your parents used

[+ sync]

Whenever I frowned after not getting what I wanted:  "you better straighten your face before I straighten it for you!"

[rvwnsd]

32 minutes ago, sync said:

Whenever I frowned after not getting what I wanted:  "you better straighten your face before I straighten it for you!"

My mom would say that, too!

 

Mom, when one of us was sick: "If you die, I'll kill you."

[Epigonos]

My grandmother, who didn't speak English well, would say "Oh my, my, my" when she was exasperated.  Both my parents used: "No skin off my nose", "Six of one, half a dozen of another, and "Been there, done that".  My dad would say "I don't give a rats ass".

[+ Autumnal]

Dad - You do good work son, just not enough of it.

 

[gkim1986]

teaching you manners is like flogging a dead horse.

you ain't a chip of the old block

you can't step into your dad's shoes

needless to say, all of them came from my mom.  I still love her.

 

[+ sync]

When they heard or saw something that didn't seem logical to them:  "Well, that makes a pile of sense!"

[Rudynate]

On 11/28/2020 at 9:55 AM, samhexum said:

I need it like a lokh in kop. (Yiddish for hole in [the] head)

 

I'm getting farblondzhet. [pronounced fuhBLUNjed] (Yiddish for lost)

Whenever I hear Yiddish being spoken, it sounds so similar to German that I always assumed it was a German dialect.  I read recently though that linguists consider it a separate language.

[Rudynate]

On 11/22/2020 at 8:38 AM, Luv2play said:

 It’s got to be calves liver, the most tender of the cow livers or it’s no good. Try it some time. Make sure the liver is not overdone.

My parents were fanatic about liver.  What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver.  They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside.   My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table.  I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. 

[+ Charlie]

16 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

My parents were fanatic about liver.  What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver.  They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside.   My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table.  I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. 

When I told my spouse that we often had beef tongue for dinner, he almost barfed. I loved it. I think my mother bought it because it was one of the cheaper pieces of meat at the butcher (yes, she went to a real butcher shop--I haven't seen one of them in a long time). When I objected to something my mother served, she usually said, "Be thankful  you're not one of the starving children in China" ("starving children in China" was a standard trope in my childhood).

[Luv2play]

Baby beef liver is not as tender as calves liver. I think the difference in ages of the cattle is about two years, the calves being under a year. Baby beef is next two years and then beef liver, which is the oldest and toughest of the livers. 

With calves liver, you can almost cut it with a fork.

Edited December 31, 2021 by Luv2play

[RadioRob]

“Those that don’t listen must feel.”

[Rudynate]

4 hours ago, Luv2play said:

Baby beef liver is not as tender as calves liver. I think the difference in ages of the cattle is about two years, the calves being under a year. Baby beef is next two years and then beef liver, which is the oldest and toughest of the livers. 

With calves liver, you can almost cut it with a fork.

That sounds familiar.

[+ sync]

6 hours ago, Charlie said:

When I told my spouse that we often had beef tongue for dinner, he almost barfed. I loved it. I think my mother bought it because it was one of the cheaper pieces of meat at the butcher (yes, she went to a real butcher shop--I haven't seen one of them in a long time). When I objected to something my mother served, she usually said, "Be thankful  you're not one of the starving children in China" ("starving children in China" was a standard trope in my childhood).

I never favored beef tongue, but I was okay with it until I saw a full beef tongue in the display case at a butcher shop.

After the sight of that full beef tongue, it was a no go.

[+ pdxleo]

In my childhood home, tongue was always call "beef roast", not "roast beef", in order to get us to eat it. With horseradish and potatoes, it kinda worked.

[+ Autumnal]

Whenever I said "I wish...", I instantly heard back "If wishes were horses beggars would ride"

[Becket]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

When all else fails, read the directions.

If the horse is dead, get off.

[+ azdr0710]

Nobody gets out of bed for free.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Drive defensively. 

[Leyte2019]

"There's more than one way to skin a cat" (be creative; you'll get it done)

"He's tight as Dick's hatpin" (he's cheap or austere)

"Can't never could" (don't be a quitter)

"Smarty Smarty had a party; nobody came but Smarty Smarty" (no one likes a smart ass)

[+ cougar]

"If she has to remind you she is a woman....she ain't"

 

[+ sync]

Shortly into a contentious exchange:  "do you want your ears boxed?"

[samhexum]

9 hours ago, sync said:

Shortly into a contentious exchange:  "do you want your ears boxed?"

You should've walked out of the room, saying "No, I'll just take them to go."

[+ sync]

2 hours ago, samhexum said:

You should've walked out of the room, saying "No, I'll just take them to go."

Great comeback, but if I had said that I wouldn't have been able to walk out of the room.  😄

[+ Gar1eth]

On 12/31/2021 at 10:33 AM, Rudynate said:

My parents were fanatic about liver.  What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver.  They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside.   My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table.  I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. 

Years ago in my mid 20's I was at a reception with hors d'oeuvre being served. There was one appetizer wrapped in bacon.  I thought it was filet mignon.
It was liver. 🤢🤢🤢

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

If I stood in front of the TV, my father  used to say, "Your father isn't a glassmaker."

 

(In case that's obscure-the idea was that if he had been, he could install a see through window into my trunk and see the TV through my body-or at least that's what I always thought it meant.)

 

Gman

[samhexum]

2 hours ago, Gar1eth said:

If I stood in front of the TV, my father  used to say, "Your father isn't a glassmaker."

(In case that's obscure-the idea was that if he had been, he could install a see through window into my trunk and see the TV through my body-or at least that's what I always thought it meant.)

Or it could have meant that you're not made of glass (so move your ass) because he made you.