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Grandmother's sayings

My brother's still refer to each other as "our" kid and we always called Mom and Dad's friends as Aunty or Uncle neighbours were always Mr and Mrs Whatever. Nowadays we are lucky if our nieces and nephews use the word Aunt or Uncle!

I can remember my Gran telling me to watch the horse road I never knew what she meant till I asked Mom and she explained.....I think I was about six she still said it untill I was 15.
 
My gran: Mind the horse road, the miskin men are coming today!
She also said (if anyone complained about being tired after a hard days work) "Our Sam used to work at the Foundry - now that was 'ard collar!"
 
Lets look to see if your donnies are clean

Stay out of the hoss road or you will be going to horspital

What are you blarting for as you have just fell over and got all of the horseroad embedded on your knee she would then spit on a hanky wipe the graze and make it better - ahhh
 
Some sayings don't seem to make sense to an outsider 'I am going to see a man about a dog' 'Donkeys Years' - you have to be a Brummie to know what they mean
 
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Oh I have to say of all the sayings I love......... lets wash those donnies, took me strait back to when I was five. It really made me think, how I miss my Mom.
 
My Mom would say to me " and where do you think your galavanting off to young lady" and my Dad used to say "There and back to see how far it is" if I asked him where he was going! Or to see a man about a dog, till my Mom made him stop it, 'cause I used to get so upset that he never came home with one. My toes were tootsy pegs and my hands were donnies. You know all these saying bring tears to my eyes, I feel so sorry for the kids today.............. no niceities in this rat race of a world now they are just stuck in front of a tv or xbox and thats it, no fun playing games like kiss chase, knock door run, cannon, tracking, hide n seek, dolly clothes peg, kick the can, the list is endless.:cry:
 
This morning I woke up with this phrase on my mind, don't know what it refers to though - Hassum Jassum.

Another just came to mind Heyday, Someday here comes Sunday.
 
How about a "cup of char" My grandad used to say that all the time. From his days in India, perhaps?
Oh, and food was "Grub"--"Eat yer Grub!" And how about the macabre "Go outside and play with the traffic" (I hope that wasn't just in my family).
 
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Here's another I remember "Well i'll go to the foot of our stairs". And yes I remember my brother being told to go and play with the traffic....... It was all in fun though usually when he was being a pain to Mom. Though my brothers tell me when they visited my grandmother they spent most of the time shut in the coal shed.....yes they were a pain!
 
I have just remembered this one by reading the post about Lenny Henry.........Saft aputh or youm saft youm am. I think some of the sayings were from the Black Country as well as Brum I know they did in our ouse as Dad was from Aston and Mom from West Brom.
 
good old days

I remember my mom saying you daft aputh, and also the saying used today "wait till ya fatha gets home" and when he did we hid and after tea he would send us to the corner shop for 5 Woodbine and then over the outdoor with a jug for a jug full of ale my Mom then used to say to me Dad "Ad some Ale antch ya " we tried to drink the froth off the ale but dad caught us doing it had a cuff round the ear for that:lol: :lol: :lol: and my ear was still stingin hours later
 
sayings

My Dad used to use the phrase hassum jassum, and I think it refered to fair play when they were playing cards or darts he used to say ""come on now lets have a bit of hassum jassum or I suppose he could have been refering to a little bit of quiet:):):)
 
See you later

When I was young 'see you later ' meant, see you later that same day.

I was really confused when I moved to Oxfordshire, as see you later meant the next time you saw someone not necessarily the next day. Before I realised I wondered why people said it when they did not mean it!


Amazing I have not heard theses sayings for years,the ones I remember :


Tara a bit

bobowler or bobbyowler

It's black over Bill's mothers

Making a wigwam for a wowser ( when I asked my father what he was doing)

Going to see a man about a dog ( likewise when he was going out)
 
Was anyone else refused a lump of cheese in the evening on the grounds of: "It'll make you dream of black pudding and rats"?

Chris
 
Rupert said:
There was a large moth flying around the living room. My Canadian wife said "there's something flying around". I looked up from my newspaper and out of no where I said "it's a bobhowler". I have not heard or used the expression in years. Was the term correct? Has anyone heard this before or was it something my dad made up? I can't use the expression again my wife won't come out of the bedroom.
Regards.
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Hi Rupert,
My father used to call moths Bobby Dazzlers, similar I suppose.
Arthur.
 
Oh dear Arthur, my Dad would say when I was dressed up to go out "you look a real Bobby Dazzler.

In our house a moth was a Bob Owler.
 
When our Dad would come in the house on a cold day he would stand with his back to the fire, rub his bottom. and say, "just warmin' me brains."
 
I had a friend who was very thin and often after she had gone home my Dad would say to my Mom, I've seen more meat on a butchers pencil. She was naturally thin. Still she was the only one of my friends my Mom would give a cake to.........I think she was trying to fatten her up:D
 
Gallavanting'' is what young gallants/callants do; the same meaning as 'stravaging'......here, there and everywhere about...usually when in reference to 'youth' or those potentially up to 'no good' or not attending to what they ought.
 
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