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Things your Granny used to say
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Or still does...
I was just talking to someone about sayings their Grannies come out with.
When asked how she was my Granny, without fail, would say "Oh, I'm fine til the Doctor sees me"
Another one was "A good sneeze and I'll fall apart"
or "I want rubbing out and drawing afresh"
I think that last one was the last thing she ever said,
...but she did last til 93!
Let's hear yours
I was just talking to someone about sayings their Grannies come out with.
When asked how she was my Granny, without fail, would say "Oh, I'm fine til the Doctor sees me"
Another one was "A good sneeze and I'll fall apart"
or "I want rubbing out and drawing afresh"
I think that last one was the last thing she ever said,
...but she did last til 93!Let's hear yours
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My nan used to say loads, I have adopted most myself now but one which sticks is ' pennies maketh pound'
Funny because she never even spoke like that, she used to say it if I dropped a coin and to this day if I drop a coin, no matter how small amount it is, that saying rings in my ears and I have to pick it up.
Also she used to say 'if the wind changes, your face will stick like that' that was if I was pulling faces as a child.
Oh and when I used to call her nan, she used to say 'I'm not a goat!!'
Or about my brothers clothes, "DIS THING SMELLING SO FUNKY! When was the last time you had a shower?! Have you ever showered?! Do you live in a cesspit?"
My Grandmas so chillaxed. She told me I don't even need to get married if I don't want to, cause I am awesome the way I am. :cool:
She often calls me every other name but my own. I suppose it's understandable since she has twenty-five grand kids... but it's so funny.
"I'm just san-ferry-an" (no idea how it's spelled has I don't know where it comes from)
"He's never had a working jacket on in his life!"
I have toothache in my knee.
Possibly French: 'Ça ne fait rien', or 'It's nothing/I don't care/it doesn't matter'.
My gran always used to say this! I always thought it was spelled san - fairy - anne though haha
It was many years later after and a few French lessons it twigged with me that it was probably something to do with the saying "ça ne fait rien = it`s nothing (don`t worry!)"
I could be wrong though lol
Edit:
That's what I thought
Mine was originally a triplet with an additional 10 siblings who died at various stages - many quite early. Her Mam ran out of names for them all so my Gran was given the same name as one of her dead sisters... One was Margaret and my Gran was Peggy! :eek:
Everywhere we went she would give me a running commentary - "Oh..now who died near here? That would be our Jimmy... He were hit on't' back of his head wi' a cricket ball... I wouldn't mind but he weren't even playing - only walking past"
aww i miss her now
You know Catherine Tate's Cockney gran? That was a toned down version of my grandma. She also hated Micks and queers, but not blacks or Jews. She was very selective in her prejudices.
If you were ill, instead of medications, she used to say "All you need is putting in a bag and shaking up"..which I never really understood!
"Were you born in a barn." To anyone who didn't shut a door behind them, she hated draughts.
"You look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards." Her usual response to my teenage long hairstyle.:rolleyes:
"Say thank-you." Arggghhhh, this drove me nuts as I was usually about to do just that anyway.
"A kid is a baby goat, little humans are children."
"Oh look at that dialect house." I corrected her everytime but she never changed it.:)
She was mortified - the rest of us were in hysterics!