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I don't know; I didn't listen!
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It's at times like this I wish I had listened to what my mother told me.
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It's a knack.
My mother's universal explanation of how to perform any physical skill.
A stitch in time saves nine going in through one ear and out the other like water off a duck's back.
It'll stay like that!
A warning against the dreadful dangers of pulling faces.
You are not going out of the house wearing that!
If you don't watch out and spit it out, you'll swallow that seed, and don't you come complaining to me when there's an orange tree growing out of your tummy.
Go and take a long walk off a short pier.
Shh....the cat's peeing.
According to my father, something his father would say during a lull in the converation.
There's no point sinking the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
One of my dad's
What is thunder?...that's just God rearranging his furniture up there; He's pushing His sea chest to the other side of Heaven.
What do you think this is, bush week?
Somebody's going to wind up crying.
I'm making a wing-wong for a goose's bridle.
In answer to "What are you doing, Mummy?"
[irach, seeds] It was watermelon pips, here.
You must have been born in a field!
Said when one left the door of a room open.
[Raak] "...in a barn" in our family
Shurrup or I'll bash your face in - a favourite of my mother's.
Come on, you could get a tank through there!
A favourite of my dad's when somebody in front wasn't quick enough moving into a gap in traffic. Thing is, he used to work for the MOD on Salisbury Plain, so he'd know ...
I could do that quoth my Dad whenever a snooker player on TV missed a shot.
Just taking seamanlike precautions.
(Mrs INJ's dad when going to the loo before going out - and yes, he was a sailor)
You'd better brush those teeth, and make them clean and shiny, or else the tooth fairy won't leave you anything for them when they fall out.
Wear it (them) in good health. (Accompanied each gift of clothing or jewelry)
This was in one of Max Boyce's routines, but I always liked it
Fine! Go play your stupid rugby. But if you break both your legs, don't come running home to me.
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