Funny sayings that mothers say to their children

[Haunted]

"Is your underwear clean? You don't want to get into an bad accident and have to go to the hospital with dirty underwear!"


'course if you were to be in a bad accident sure to shootin' your underwear wouldn't be clean

[Spideyman]

“As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say, and live by my rules !"

"I don't know is not an answer."

[PatInTheHat]

'Oh is it your birthday?...well for your birthday this year we thought we might just let you live here for another one, at least some of it...Happy Birthday!'
Hmm, just me again?
And then for my sixteenth b-day I got a swell pair of high dollah way sweet steel-toed oil & grease resistant work shoes, which segues well with some of the other thangs Mama would often tell me.
Like, 'Your rent, it's gone up.', and, 'Shoes don't grow on trees ya know?...boy you best just remember how I'ma gonna wop you a good one (she lies, be at least two) if you smack talk me with that dumb shoe-tree joke again!!!'...*SNORT!* I always loved that one!
Hmm, ya know come to think on it, was a lotta things she said concerned smack-talkin'...yeah I never could figure that neither

[fushingfeef]

I'll give you something to cry about.

A timeless classic.

My mom was fond of:
"For pity's sake!"
"What's wrong with you?" (usually followed by me saying "I don't know.")
"Christ Almighty!"
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!"
"You're driving me up the wall!"
"Your room looks like a pig sty!"

[not_nadine]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph was one of mine too . I was confused, their names were Mary and Joseph.

Eat your meat, that's what God put them on the earth for.

[Samantha_]

"If you look in the mirror too long, it will break."

"Pretty is as pretty does."

"There was a little girl who had a little curl ... ." and the rest of the poem.

"Stop shopping in my closet!"

[fljoe0]

Your friends are hooligans.

I was surprised when I found out hooligan was a real word. I thought it was just something she made up.

[not_nadine]

"If you look in the mirror too long, it will break."

[king family fan]

don't go out in the rain with your nose like that or you will drown.
I thought I raised you better than that.
kids should be seem and not heard.

[Samantha_]

"If you look in the mirror too long, it will break."

Ha! I know ... that one was my grandmother. I used to think she had her metaphors mixed up, but now, pretty sure she knew what she meant.