"How'd you seem to be this morning?"
From my grandma (who got it from her father):
"Of course the story is true, it just didn't happen"
Essentially, the story is more important than the actual event.
Sound like a motto for Reddit lol
"You make a better door than you do a window." ...Anytime we got in front of the TV.
In France we say "Ton père est pas vitrier" ~"Your father isn't a window maker".
Oh man... this takes me back.
My grandpa used to always say to us kids, "I'm going to go upstairs to have sex with your grandmother".
My mother’s requests for us to calm down escalated over the years: “Cool your jets” “Don’t get your underwear in a wad” “Don’t get caught in your zipper”
My grandfather: "Life is hard only for those who are soft."
i've heard my appalachian dialect speaking grandmother use the word "quit" in the like 1700's british sense of "to leave." that, and she used to say that she was going to do something "directly" like "we're going to the store, directly." such archaic speech patterns.
the word "appalachia" is pronounced "app uh latch uh" btw
Mom says that my great grandmother had a notorious potty mouth. Whenever she'd get up off the chair she'd yell "oh, this heavy ass of mine!" ("Ay, este culo tan pesado!")
"Tables are for glasses, not asses."
~ My grandpa, whenever someone sat on a table.
My grandfather was always "fair to middlin'"
The good old days weren't always so good
"Save every five minutes and never buy Packard Bell."
When they didn't get a hug first, we'd get "What am I, chopped liver."
Everytime my Nana would send an email or leave a voicemail, she would sign off "Ciao for now!"
"Pull my finger."
Whenever we got a minor injury like on our knee, he would tell us "I can hurt the other one so you can't tell which hurts more"
When we would go fishing, he always ended up sitting on a "barking spider"
The one I borrowed from him to great effect is "beer has water in it" whenever he was told to drink water
My grandfather gave me three options when I was young and slightly hurt. "I can hurt the other one, amputate the one that hurts, or you can go to bed."
"Because God loves Ireland!" after any question they might no tknow the answer for
Not good luck, good management. Luck is not a strategy.
Talking about making plans and thinking ahead.
My grandmother would describe the phenomenon of raining while the sun is shining as The Devil beating his wife.
The same one I'm still using today: "Kill all Nazis."
"... So I said, 'I do too know how to dig a hole! I say [racial slur], dig me hole!', Hahahaha!!!"
I learned more than I wanted to as a kid...
My grandma, having to call for help but doesn’t know who of the many kids are around: hey, hey human who was named
Translation takes away from it.
My great-grandmother was a fan of "you know who you are, get over here"
From my grandma, Est la Fromage, such is cheese, sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes it’s bitter, sometimes it stinks like Limburger.
In like Flynn.
What does that even mean?
"In like Flynn" is a slang phrase meaning "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired."
Whenever my Grandfather, a WWII combat veteran, saw something he didn't approve of: "The things you see when they don't let you carry a gun any more...".
My other Grandfather didn't really have any funny phrases, but my Nana when she didn't approve of something would just use the "Well, that's a how modern people do things I suppose". It was really the only complaint she'd make, the only time I ever saw her lose her temper with someone was the day I got into a traffic accident and she had to be physically restrained from going after the driver for hurting her grandchild hahaha (I was the passenger).
(Insert place) was so empty you could throw a cow through it!
Mz granddad used to say "Life is hard and unfair." whenever we complained about stupid shit.
Not a catch phrase, but one day my grandfather showed up at the house unannounced asking me to bury his pet cat that had recently died in my back yard.
This took a turn.
"Putang ina." ("Son of a whore")
They said this charming Filipino phrase whenever I did something stupid. So, often enough to count as a catchphrase.
Take me out back and shoot me.
A whistling woman or a whistling hen, will drive the devil from his den.
(My wife's grandfather, not mine.)
Don't pass up the opportunity to have sex or take a shit: you'll always regret it.
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