Catch phrases your parents often said....

kids are starving in Africa!
Now finish your dinner.

You'll have someone's eye out with that.

Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry for!

I'm not going to buy anymore fruit if you keep eating it!

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?


not parents,Pink Floyd

This is going to hurt me more that it is going to hurt you

🤔

My folks had five kids. My mothers most common catch phrase was “God give me strength”

Close that refrigerator.. you're letting all the cold out...

Lmao

I will tell your Father when he gets home...........😥

My grandmother
‘I have a bone to pick with you’
Meant you were in trouble.

Parents..
Come here to have your bottom walloped.
I’m going to hit you into the middle of next week
If you don’t stop crying I will give you something to cry about.

"Because I say/said so."
"One day you'll understand."
"If you don't watch out, your face is gonna stay that way."

Threat: "You just wait until you father gets home!"

Oh yeah. "You're going out dressed like than, young lady."

Skip ahead 20 years, and I was saying something like that myself.

I (or you) need that like I (you) need another hole in my (your) head!

S/he has a face only a mother could love (referring to people/celebrities she found unattractive).

You can teach someone how to do something, but you can’t teach anyone how to care about anything.

Think positive! Or There’s nothing to worry about until there’s something to worry about.

They had a ton of coin phrases…. Lol

“If you don’t drink your milk the cow will cry!”. I remember my mom using that one.

"You could have called to tell us you'd be late... I thought you were lying in a ditch somewhere"

Lol

If you have coffee at a young age you won't grow.

When I was frustrated with something I might say (for example) "This stupid can won't open...". My dad would calmly say "Now how can a can be stupid"? I think he meant that to be rhetorical because he never expected me to answer. All I recall, however, was that it made me even more infuriated at whatever it was I was frustrated with.

It's not exactly my parents', but here's a few:

- "In absence of clams, you'll eat even the (empty) shells"

- whenever someone declines an invitation: "Good, one less (to feed) and one more chair that remains available" (typical legendary Venetian hospitality)

- "(you have) a brain that not even crabs would eat"

My mom always used to exclaim 'son of a sea cook!'

"Go cut me a switch!"

Is your tail still coming in? (When I didn't close door after walking into the house)

You make a better door than you do a window

Your eyes are bigger than your stomach

Just wait till your dad gets home. 😧

Because I said so
I gave you life and I can take ot from you
Wait till your father gets home
Don't make me turn this car around
Don't make me come back there.
Say what one more time.
The Not me ghost again?

"Some food is better than no food. "
(When we had tuna for dinner or soup)

"When you have your own house then you can do it your way. "

"When my mom asked me of something, it was Yes mom."

*cringe* :

No price, it must be free then.

I'm good for an old man

Poor Mickey

Hunky Dory

Ready to roll

Calling his wife "Mother"

Addressing servers by their first name, especially women

"Work smarter, not harder"

"Want in one hand, shit in the other. See which one you get first"

"If it was a snake, it would have bit you."

Mom:
You made your bed now you have to lie in it.
Dad:
Everyone has the right to their own opinions.

"Those dishes aren't going to wash themselves." There were many variations of this.

"Stop eating all the food!"

Give me the oofy doofy

"Do as I say, not as I do."

It takes two to tango!

For the last time
...Clean your room!

Get a job!

Lol

"burnt food just means more flavor"
My mother would burn so much food and that was her excuse haha

"Oh, you don’t know what’s good !”(with a food I didn’t like)
“I will put you all out right here !” (while driving on the freeway—Mom denies she said this but at least three of us remember)

Have a nap or else the Indians will put you inside their clothes (saree) and kidnap you.😬

"You're a f#cking lazy useless c#nt!" Thanks Mum. 😒

"If a girl smiles at you she wants to f#ck you" OMG! Dad. 😯

"When we get into the market,dont start grabbing stuff because I'm not buying you anything today, DO YOU HEAR ME!?"

May the dog count your teeth.

May the dog lick your chin (not so frequent 😆)

You lazy nit.

Hier oben logisch denken

When mom got angry…” got down in the side of a ditch!”

And daddy “ that thing won’t fix itself now will it ?”

mom...you rascalls are getting on my last nerve!

afrikaans...julle maaifoedies maak my senuwees klaar!

My dad,(may he rest in peace), would often say...
"No way Jose"

I think he forgot my name...
😏

If you don’t eat your crusts, you won’t get curly hair….

I have curly hair lol 😝

I used to pull nasty faces so they said if the wind changes you will stop like That

Yes, my Mother uttering the phrase that terrified me…”I got a bone to pick with you!”

You are going to grow up to be a fisherman's wife!

If wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry.

Did you bring enough for everyone?

Lol

“It wasn’t meant to be “ - mom

Who has been drinking my bourbon?

Who took my last beer .... DAMMIT!

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