mc5 - I don't know; I didn't listen!

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.

Uncle Korky

Go and take a long walk off a short pier.

Raak

Shh....the cat's peeing.
According to my father, something his father would say during a lull in the converation.

Phil

There's no point sinking the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
One of my dad's

irach

What is thunder?...that's just God rearranging his furniture up there; He's pushing His sea chest to the other side of Heaven.

flerdle

What do you think this is, bush week?

cfm

Somebody's going to wind up crying.

flerdle

I'm making a wing-wong for a goose's bridle.
In answer to "What are you doing, Mummy?"

flerdle

[irach, seeds] It was watermelon pips, here.

Raak

You must have been born in a field!
Said when one left the door of a room open.

Phil

[Raak] "...in a barn" in our family
Shurrup or I'll bash your face in - a favourite of my mother's.

jim

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 ...

Uncle Korky

I could do that quoth my Dad whenever a snooker player on TV missed a shot.

ImNotJohn

Just taking seamanlike precautions.
(Mrs INJ's dad when going to the loo before going out - and yes, he was a sailor)

irach

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.

cfm

Wear it (them) in good health. (Accompanied each gift of clothing or jewelry)

CdM

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.