What odd sayings do you/your family have?

Question

I always say we need to "go to town" when we need groceries etc. and I have a friend who teases me and says "did you get the horses hitched up as well" it is rather funny I guess that I say "going to town" because we live 5 minutes out of town.

And the other day I said my stomach was churning and my daughter said "mommy no body says churning anymore" LOL

I always found it funny how my grandma called a dresser a chest of drawers and a couch a davenou (I have no idea how to spell that).

So what are the odd sayings in your family?

Not exactly a parenting question but the family section is just filled with they said this or did that. I wanted to know from parents like myself.

Answer 1

Whenever my husband and I take our son anywhere, we always tell him "we're going on a trip".  

Answer 2

so long    For goodbye

what ails you?  When you are acting up.

thingamabob  or thingamajig  When you can't recall something

do you think we live in a barn?  When the door is left open

money doesn't grow on trees you know

that spoon in your mouth isn't silver, its plastic  both for wanting money

your nose is bent out of shape    when you are upset about something

don't make a mountain out of a mole hill when you are blowing something out of proportion

do you want to take a tubby?  have a bath

Answer 3

lol I also say -go to town- it usually means going out of our way to go get groceries or go to walmart or something. lol.

Im 18 btw lol.

i say "to h**l with you" also.

and "git from here!" when my dogs are bothering me.

I guess im really old fashioned lol, in my language I mean.

But it's so catchy.

But i like the way i talk...TALK not TAWK. lol

Answer 4

My mom always has a bunch of dumb sayings she found on the internet like '' do you want to be a tigger or an e-ore" i hate it, she also uses huge words that nobody uses.

Answer 5

Well it's not exactly a saying, but any time I complained that my brother was bothering me unnecessarily my father would clap his hands. Not say anything, just clap. He meant to make a point that it takes two hands to clap, therefore it's my fault too. I always found this judgmental and corny.

Also, my mother used to say "Rats, rats, rats on toast," or "Oh crumbs" when she was upset, to keep herself from swearing in front of us. When she wanted us to get up early she'd tell us to get up "at the crack o' smack".

My step dad, who is South African-Indian, says "Oh bugger" when there's a lot of traffic or he's remembered something he forgot.

Answer 6

my grandma always calls a couch a davenport...i can remember her saying it when i was little and i always thought it was such an odd word  

oh and my parents used to give me and my twin sister a mini bath...meaning they wouldn't wash our hair or anything it would just be a quick bath to get the "important" parts haha   but when i was little when they called it that i thought they meant Minnie as in Minnie Mouse! so i loved taking Minnie baths lol  

Answer 7

Growing up, my dad always had a funny (although kinda crude) saying for whenever one of us would get stressed out. "It's a f**t in the wind". Meaning "it'll blow over soon enough. It sucks now, but it will soon pass"

Me- "Dad, I have a pimple on my chin and tonight is homecoming!"

Dad- "It's a f**t in the wind hunny."

Me- "Dad, the florist got my wedding bouquet wrong! The whole wedding is DESTROYED!!!" (overly dramatic)

Dad-- "It's a f**t in the wind."

Lol. Not always the thing you want to hear, but it always made (makes) me laugh.

My friend's grandma talks to her GPS. She's always like, "Ok, Tom Tom, how do I get home?" And she's like 70 and VERY southern, so it's hillarious.

Answer 8

When we're on the ground floor of our house, I say I have to go downstairs for something.  Which really means the crawlspace.  We have to crawl down a ladder and in the crawlspace we can stand in it.  So to me it's like a downstairs, even though it doesn't have stairs.

When my mom and dad went to the movies, she would always say "we're going to the show".  That always annoyed me.  I'm like mom, it's the movies, not the show!

Answer 9

My gramma always used to say:

"davenport" (couch)

"catsup" ketchup

"lord love a duck"

"oh pashaw"

when she would burp she would say "well excuse you, ya old pig!" (to herself lol)

she also said "chest of drawers"

"icebox" (fridge)

any kind of pop she called "a cola"

Answer 10

Did you know that a dresser and a chest of drawers are actually different pieces of furniture?  A dresser is normally one row of drawers, often taller.  A chest of drawers is usually shorter, but has multiple rows of drawers.

Anyway, we say "going to town" as well.  My MaMa used to say it, and I say it now.  We live in the country, though.  If we are going to the grocery store, gas station, etc. nearby we just say we are "Going to TownName", but if we are going to Wal Mart, the mall, etc. we say "Going to Town".  The grocery store, gas station are less than five minutes away.  Wal Mart is about 15-20, and the mall is about 20-25.

If one of the children get a (non serious) injury, we will usually ask them if they want us to "cut it off".  It usually makes them laugh, and if it does not then that lets us know that it is perhaps serious.

My husband uses the word "beau" (bo) a lot.  It sounds so hick and annoys me.

I find myself saying words that my MaMa used to say, such as "swanee" and "shucks" on occasion.

My son can NOT say spaghetti properly-he calls it busghetti (even at 8).  Both of my older children use butcept instead of but or except.

That is all I can think of for now.

Answer 11

I agree I say going to the market and my children laugh, another one is fetch, like fetch the paper it is just old habits but my kids think I am weird

Answer 12

We are notorious for making up words. I was telling my husband something about our kids being sneaky and I was on my little rant saying "They know that we know that we are the "Knowings." He just busted out laughing. It has caught on to our kids and they make up words all the time and people are like,"huh?" but I always know what they mean. My daughter was telling me someone was a gossiping lip jipper. ha ha

We do, at least, understand that these aren't real words! LOL