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Expressions your parents used


samhexum

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These were some of my mom's expressions I remember from when I was a young'n:

 

1. (About my father) He may not always be right, but he's never wrong.

 

2. (He/she has) Klass with a capital K.

 

3. (Instead of damn or fuck when frustrated) Your father's mustache! (he was always clean-shaven)

 

4. (He's a) Big shot, dot the i. (somebody with an inflated sense of self-worth)

 

What are some of the expressions you remember your parents using when you were young?

 

BTW, did you notice that those expressions all seem to be applicable to Trump?

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On a cranky toddler

“He’s so tired, he doesn’t know whether to shit or go bowling”

 

On appetite

“I’m so hungry I could eat the asshole off a skunk!”

 

On rebellious procrastination

“Right now, young man, before I rip your leg off and beat you over the head with it”

 

On ignorance

“...doesn’t know shit from Shinola”

“...couldn’t find his own asshole without a bloodhound”

 

There were more, but often they involved made-up German-Yiddish nonsense or onomatopoeias.

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On a cranky toddler

“He’s so tired, he doesn’t know whether to shit or go bowling”

 

On appetite

“I’m so hungry I could eat the asshole off a skunk!”

 

So your mother was a delicate, dainty little thing who never cursed, right? Or was she a truck driver?

 

 

“...doesn’t know shit from Shinola”

 

I've always said "When it comes to country music, I don't know shit from Shania."

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So your mother was a delicate, dainty little thing who never cursed, right? Or was she a truck driver?

 

 

 

 

I've always said "When it comes to country music, I don't know shit from Shania."

Mom was a good driver, and in her day would have given a truck a go...

The ones I highlighted here are the ones you wouldn’t hear on the Patty Duke Show... we also heard lots of cleaner pearls of wisdom.

 

Shania wasn’t even born when I heard that “shit from” expression... but it was rooted in more concrete visual, as Shinola was an early and popular brand of shoe polish.

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Growing up, my mother was the typical yeller, caller out of wrongdoings, and punisher - examples of which were kneeling on rock salt, balancing 5 heavy books per hand and on the head while squatting, and chewing down small chilis to name a few. She does not have unique verbal expressions per se, but she always had that mad, crazy-eye stare when she's about to foreshadow my impending demise later that day. I think mom loves me now.

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And to describe a muscle Dude:

 

"He is built like a brick shit house!"

 

I remember my father's friends and other adult males use that expression to describe a fit well stacked in the chest woman!

 

 

For crying out loud ...

 

"For crying out loud" My brother-in-law is a New Yorker and grew up there during the 50's he uses this expression.

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Growing up, my mother was the typical yeller, caller out of wrongdoings, and punisher - examples of which were kneeling on rock salt, balancing 5 heavy books per hand and on the head while squatting, and chewing down small chilis to name a few. She does not have unique verbal expressions per se, but she always had that mad, crazy-eye stare when she's about to foreshadow my impending demise later that day. I think mom loves me now.

 

I remember your mom's screen debut.

 

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