Do you remember any?

Question

strange sayings from your childhood? mine are if the wind changes your face will stay like that. and. you will be wearing that smirk on the other side of your face in a minute me laddo..

Answer 1

I remember being scolded with " I'll take my hand off your face if you don't stop that"

Answer 2

eat your spinach and you'll be as strong as popeye, and crusts would put hairs on your chest. maybe some sayings have slightly changed depending on regions.

Answer 3

If you pick your nose, your head will cave in.

Answer 4

Don't sit to close to the TV or your eyes will go square

Answer 5

LoL...i remember they saying there was a man who took bad children with him...

Answer 6

my dad used to tell me that if i ate apple seeds plants would grow out of my ears, naturally thats not true, but i still cant get myself to eat a seed. of any sort.

he also told me the crunchy things in figs were ant heads, and i still dont eat figs.

odd how such silly things could change your eating habits FOREVER.

Answer 7

if you pick your nose your brain will fall out

children should be seen not herd

Answer 8

"Don't come running to me if you drown."

Answer 9

Remember all those sayings. i remember my dad used to say to me mind the pips in your apple, if you swallow one you'll have an apple tree growing out of your head, get your finger out of your nose, you'll pull your brain out, don't pick dandelions they make you wet the bed,

Answer 10

I remember climbing a tree in our back garden when I was a kid. My mother was a bit agitated and shouted at me..."if you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me"... hee hee...

Luckily I didn't and can now laugh at what she said. Lol

Answer 11

My mother would sometimes say "Stop that grizzling or I'll give you something to grizzle *about*!"

My dad's catchphrase was "Well, you can say what you like about Mussolini, but he made the trains run on time."

Answer 12

"Eat your carrots if you want to see in the dark"

My mother used to say this to me when I was a child - and still does even though I am now 57 years old!!

Answer 13

do not swallow chewing gum it will make you wet the bed

Answer 14

If you lie, your teeth will fall out.

If you don't completely clean your plate, you'll get freckles

you'll get struck down by lightning if you talk trash about/to your parents