What original phrase do you use in your family?

[bif]

My daughter came up with "waste out of batteries." As in, "if you leave that flashlight on all the time, you'll waste out of batteries."

[1gobluedem]

1. Becept

My brother's word for except.

We have also adapted several known phrases to our lives such as "double nought spy route" for any route off the beaten path, courtesy of Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies, and hollering out "Praise God for vittory" for any minor triumph which is why The Grapes of Wrath is not taken very seriously in our household.

[trackfan]

8. I also use becept

and "bemember" for remember

[wildhorses]

2. layed up sorry--we say it when we take a mental health day

as in layed around and did nothing productive

[idgiehkt]

17. I love it.

sounds appalachian.

[wildhorses]

20. thanks, and it is. By way of my SIL who is from Tennessee

she is another BLUE hillbilly Yay

rare bird

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

23. I love that! "Layed up sorry"

That's a great one! :hi:

[wildhorses]

28. cool--good to see ya

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

29. I missed you! I've been in GD for the past week

and I kind of needed some levity. ;-) Which I got!

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. From my son when he would approach automatic doors when he was about age 6

"Open! Sense me!"

But, have to say, his greatest line was when he was about age 3, and I was trying to get him over to the car after a long evening of my being in a ballet/jazz dance rehearsal and costuming set-ups. I said to him, "Come on...get your butt in gear!"

He started digging through his coat pockets, came up empty-handed, and said, "But, Mommy, I don't have my button gear. Did I leave it inside?"

Needless to say, I felt about 2 inches tall, hugged him, and picked him up and carried him to the car.

[Arugula Latte]

65. That's adorable! And accurate!

:rofl: Sense me!

Isn't that from Tommy? "See me. Feel me. Touch me. Sense me..."

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. "What you said?"

When my son was about 4, his sister was telling him something and he turned and asked,"What you said?" We use it all the time now.

We also call bald "bulbed" because of him and Swiss Cake Rolls are "Skunk Rolls" thanks to my daughter (aged 2 at the time). You should see the looks on my son's friend's faces when I ask them if they want a skunk roll. :hi:

[Rosie1223]

5. "your hair is boiling"

My mom's hair was always kind of unruly. One morning, my daughter who was then about 4, said, "Gran, your hair is boiling". Since then, anyone whose hair is messy has "boiling hair".

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. "Oh, great, another genocide just like grandpa Adolf"

[jane_pippin]

7. "youse is wall-to-wall stupid"

You know, like wall-to-wall carpet, but with stupid instead. Thanks, Gramma. :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. My grandmother often yells...

"You want me to put it somewhere safe? I'll stick it up my ASSHOLE!"

My grandmother is a mean old lady.

[idgiehkt]

18. rolfmao

:rofl:

is this the one that beats people with her cane?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Yes.

Honestly, could it possibly be the other one?

[Bunny]

10. Question: Guess what?

Answer: Chicken butt!

No idea where that came from, but 40 years later it's still in play.

Here's another one: Chicken in the cah, the cah won't go, Chi-cah-go! :shrug:

[Phillycat]

11. "Keen nis mess up!"

Apparently said by me in my highchair when I was about 2. I was demanding that the spaghetti on my face, hands, in my ears, nose, and down my diaper be disposed of immediately. "Clean this mess up..." Still said in my family.

[hedgehog]

39. We always looked forward to feeding a young child spaghetti

for the first time. I never spoon fed my kids but plopped the food down in front of them and let them have at it. Did you know that bathing a small child after a spaghetti dinner can leave a ring of tomato sauce around the tub?

[trof]

64. Babysitter begged us to feed our daughter ravioli

when we were going out so she could watch.
We usually did.

[July]

57. "Clean up this mess and get this shit out of here!"

Adult version of yours. Something my mother said frequently to us five siblings when we were growing up; it's always accompanied by a hand gesture that looks like a papal blessing (left and right in front of you, then a tight wave in the air).

[dpbrown]

12. It's a horse apiece.

Meaning six of one half dozen of the other.

[crim son]

13. "Noodlesmith"

Originally from my son bending partially cooked noodles into various shapes (he came up with the term) and now applies to anybody diddling around doing nothing much.

[deucemagnet]

16. I like that!

:thumbsup:

[crim son]

30. Thanks!

My son has turned out to be a bit of an oddball. We like it! :)

[Divameow77]

14. Everytime my 3 year old sees my boyfriend

He says " Hi Bill (his name is Phil) your car go bast"

Now we always say it goes Bast (fast).

[Patiod]

15. "Calm down and stop all the woo"

"Woo" is our word for hysteria.

[kwassa]

19. Auger, auger, auger!

instead of taking a personal dig at someone ....

my brother would stick his finger in my ribs and say "Auger, auger, auger!"

[idgiehkt]

46. that is so creative. n/t

[catmandu57]

21. Get in your place

Always said at supper to a large unruly bunch of kids get in your place how do yo expect to eat if you're not in your place. Which is what I tell the cats every morning now while I'm getting their food ready. They stop what they're doing and head over to the eating spot.

[WolverineDG]

22. "Crummy buttons"

not a clue as to how that one came about, but used when four-letter expressions are not encouraged (ie, children are around)

"And well worth it, Uncle Birnam"--long story; apparently some long-dead relative went to live with (ie, mooch off of) some other relatives. She liked to butter both sides of her bread. When confronted with the fact that butter was 5 cents/lb, she responded (as she turned the bread over & continued buttering) "And well worth it, Uncle Birnam." So we use it when someone gripes about the cost of something.

dg

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. Crummy Buttons were a cookie

on a Dick Van Dyke Show episode. Ritchie's favorite teevee character, some clown, advertised 'em.



I know waaaaayyyyy too much crap like this. :blush:

[WolverineDG]

43. Marry me

I love trivia. :loveya:

and cats (see below; 3 of my 5 mooks):




dg

[Sugar Smack]

24. "You're the mo'tal stuff"

That means, "You're the best!"

[NewWaveChick1981]

25. "Out there with the big ones!"

Coined by a friend of my sister's in high school. She knew some people who were bizarre and very screwed up, and she said they were "out there with the big ones." We've used it ever since, and to us, it signifies someone who is way off the deep end. :P

[MorningGlow]

27. Two-ones

MorningGlow Jr. (3 years old in a week and a half) came up with "two-ones" as a number when he had just turned 2 and it has come to mean "everything" or "a lot".

In context: "How many toy cars do you want to take to grandma's?" "Two-ones." (All of them, which in his case means several hundred--he's a toy car fiend.)

For Mr. MorningGlow and I, it has come to mean "infinity" or "a number that trumps all others"--"You're a poopy-head infinity." "Yeah? Well, you're a poopyhead TWO-ONES." End of dispute. (And yes, those are the grownups talking.)

But now MorningGlow Jr. has moved on, from "two-ones" to "many ones". They grow up so fast...snif...

When she was a toddler, my niece, now 17, used to say "My do it" and the whole family still uses that one.

And don't even get me started on my grandparents' peculiar half-Italian half-English words--it's like our private family language.

[bif]

31. Too much=the perfect amount

We'd say to our daughter when she was pouring cereal, let's say.
"That's too much cereal."
Daughter: "I want too much cereal."
So now it means a lot in our family.
We have a ton of them, I just can't think of them right now.

[bif]

32. "Thirty-ten"

The number after 39. We now use it whenever we don't know the number of something. Like "How much does a football cost?" "Thirty-ten."

[July]

56. Good one for those turning 40!

We have a similar phrase in my family for the unknown cost of something: "a dollar three-eighty."

[ChoralScholar]

33. They put in a Mexican restaurant down the street

but they "didn't last 'til the water got hot."

(referring to a place that was only in business for a short time)

My dad pioneered this one, I think.

[Pied Piper]

34. Two stories

No. 1 My family camped a lot when I was a kid. We finally bought a pop-up camper, and on one trip we experienced a huge thunderstorm - the rain was starting to blow inside the camper (my whole family is nuts about open windows and fresh air). My little sister got up to zip the window shut, but she was having some trouble negotiating the canvas (she was about 10 at the time), and my dad started yelling at her. She had her back to him while she struggled with the zipper, so she couldn't see him. He started shouting "Pull this way! Pull this way!" All the while pointing his finger away from him (he should have said "Pull THAT way!"). So she was pulling towards his voice, obviously in the wrong direction. Finally exasperated, she said, "Pull on WHAT?" He said, "On the, the ZIPPERCLOP!" Hilarity ensued. That was over 30 years ago, and even now, I can look at my mom and just say "Zipperclop!", and she will fall off her chair laughing. Whenever a family discussion become a little too heated, either my sister or I will say, "Pull THIS way!" (while gesturing in the opposite direction). It always diffuses the situation.

No. 2 My family was very close to another family while I was growing up. So close, in fact, that we all knew each others' extended families as well. Once we invited the daughter of the other family to have dinner with us. I told her that my grandmother would also be there for dinner. She asked me, "Which one, the fat one, or the one with blue hair?" Fortunately, we all have great senses of humor, and both the fat one and the one with blue hair thought the story was hysterical. Sadly, neither the fat one nor the one with blue hair are with us anymore, but at each of their funerals, that line came back to me and I smiled through the tears.

[Aristus]

35. "Abbyssinia!" instead of "I'll be seeing you."

n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Arthur Godfrey started that

on his old radio show.

Henry Blake used it on "MASH" a time or two.

[joneschick]

36. "this is the key that starts my house"

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. "Hopper hopper hopper!"

This is what the kids would say when they raced around the house in the altogether.

[greblc]

38. Hadeepaya!

It's an Ice fishing term my little brother came up with when he was 8 or so. When ice fishing was slow he would walk from Ice house to ice house knocking on doors asking ice fishermen "hadeepaya ?" the response was often a puzzled look. Until he slowed it down. How-deep-are-you? ...fishing?

To this day the word "Hadeepaya!" brings he and I back to a warm youthful place when it's icy cold outside.

[Porcupine]

41. TV Remote= "God" as in "Who's got God" or "Hand over GOD" nt.

.

[StellaBlue]

44. "I met a 'possum"

Long story. Ca. 1968.

[Auggie]

45. "Happy good time"

As in, "We had a happy good time." Courtesy of my grandmother, who after brain surgery always had troubles with her sentences.

[izzybeans]

47. Hey little homey let's try wiping your own butt this time.

I say it at least once a day to my three year old son.

He's pretty keen on saying "Boom Boom look who stepped in the room." Something from a cartoon...

[yellowdogintexas]

48. "Never Go to Bed!"

image: tiny little almost 2 year old, after having been sent to bed for the umpteenth time that night, stomps from her room, shakes her finger at her parents and while stomping one foot shouts: "Never go to bed!!!" turns and stomps back to her room, having won the battle.


Kid is still an insomniac, so she took a job with hours until 10 week nights and midnite Friday and Saturday

my kid sister's word for TV: Telemenish


kitty kat monster ghost: Halloween costume the year my daughter was 3

"I don't feels betters" said by my husband as a small child to his mom when he was sick.

[alittlelark]

49. "It is what it is, unless it isn't"

I have no idea where it came from, but it is used regularly by family members.

[LiberalHeart]

50. "The crown, Madam, the crown."

Shopping in an upscale lighting shop years ago, the salesman used a term my mom didn't recognize and said so. Very disgusted with her ignorance and with great disdain, he said, "The crown, Madam, the crown" which sounded a lot like "you stupid bitch, don't you know what the crown is?" After that (and to this day) when one of us says something the other doesn't get but we think the other should get it, we respond haughtily: "The crown, Madam, the crown." Maybe you had to be there...

[quiet.american]

52. That's pretty hilarious. I might take that one, if you don't mind.

Of course, the salesman's attitude towards your mom was unforgiveable, but what you've made of it is hilarious.

[quiet.american]

51. "Call it George."

Don't know if it's original, but never heard of it before my mom used it.

Used as in wrapping up a tedious task, or winding down something annoying --

"Tell you what, fuggedaboutit, let's call it George."

[swag]

53. The grunts are difficult to decipher, let alone transliterate.

[NC_Nurse]

54. Tooken instead of taken

my daughters started that one long ago.

There are many more, we're a weird family.

[Arugula Latte]

66. We say "tookie" instead of "cookie" at my house ...

a fond memory of my daughter's earlier pronunciation ... The first time she pronounced it "cookie" my husband and I looked at each other in dismay. It's so sad when they start to lose those adorable babyisms...

[radfringe]

55. That's for you, shookie!

long story

but basically if you make a rude bodily noise - instead of saying excuse me - you say THAT'S FOR YOU SHOOKIE

[libnnc]

58. "Well if it was in your ass, you'd know..."

My partner and I say it to make fun of each other when we lose something that we should always keep track of.

Examples include, the TV remote, keys, purse, sunglasses, reading glasses, fingernail clippers, scissors, the cat...

"Hey honey, have you seen my (the)_______."

"Well if it was in your ass, you'd know now wouldn't you?"

[bikebloke]

59. "There's Henry __________"

My great grandfather, Henry ______, was supposed to have been very contrite. Example: He'd sit down to dinner and say he hated cauliflower. Then proceeded to eat most of it. So when someone did or said something contrite, they'd say "There's Henry _____". What a way to gain immortality.


*Surname censored so Homeland Security will have to get up off their fat, lazy, nazi asses.

[FredStembottom]

60. Fambaneous!

My sister shouted that one out when she was about 3.

Used like "Fantastic!"

[mzteris]

61. "What *up* is it?"

When my son was about 4 years old we were looking at toys/games - and he kept asking me - "what up is it?"

HUH?

Finally I figured it out when he asked if he could get a particular game and I responded, "No son, that's for ages 8 and up..."

Oh.

[Midlodemocrat]

62. Too many to list.

Blatnik - my dad's expression for a crying child out in public.

That guy is just NVTS - from HIstory of the world where they can't chisel a 'u', so it becomes a 'v'.

Nibbity - When the eldest was a baby, it's what she called going to bed. Going nibbity.

[trof]

63. breftuss

4 year old for breakfast.

[Arugula Latte]

67. "Praise Bastet"

Bastet is the Egyptian cat goddess. In our family, we've always disdained "regular" religion and cat worship was the only one that ever made any sense (well, worshipping the sun makes sense, too, as it is actually present in our lives and gives us major benefits).

So, if anything good happens, particularly involving the kitties, we say "Praise Bastet."

[Red State Rebel]

68. Pepto Gizmo

As a toddler, that is how my daughter translated Pepto Bismol and it stuck - even my sister used it with her kids.

[libnnc]

69. Oh and "Forty-seven-eleven"

Used by my mother.

Definition: A word describing a large number of something.

Context: "Well, all I know is he's been married forty-seven-eleven times..."
"Have I not told you that forty-seven-eleven times already?"
"Well, it took forty-seven-eleven people to handle a simple return at the store."

[LuckyLib]

70. When our daughter was young, our code word for some sweet

snack was an "Austrian torte." (Don't know why.) I'd ask my husband if we had any Austrian tortes in the house or to get an AT at the store. Once she caught on, it was habit. Kid is now 18 and away at college. We still use the term.

[Gormy Cuss]

71. We smuck people.

Smuck: to defeat soundly.

Then there's an elder female's favorite off-color insult:
"Your ahhss is sucking wind."

[Heidi]

72. "Merry Christmas, LEON!" (nt)

[grasswire]

73. this is the best thread EVER

Family language has always fascinated me.

helperclocker = helicopter

hismus pottamus

"I'm thirsty for you, mommy"

"We're surviving" uttered by a child toward the end of a staggering, obscenely ample holiday dinner. He very seriously just meant that we had adequate food for our nourishment.

"Frankie's half sick" uttered by a child three generations ago to describe a kid who didn't want to come out and play when the mudballs were flying. We use it to mean faking illness.

But the best for us is "mighty tasty." Grandma was visiting, and she had made some bread and had kept out a piece for a child to play with. He had made it into a hat for the cat, rolled it around on the kitchen floor, squished it and pounded it, etc. It was gray by then, and had particles of god knows what in it. Come bedtime while we were watching TV, Dad wanted a snack, and went into the kitchen, found a piece of dough on the counter, and fried it up in butter and ate it. He strolled out into the living room, and was asked what he had eaten. He said "I fried up that leftover piece of bread dough. Mighty tasty!" He then went to bed, with the rest of us bent over crying with laughter. We're still howling many years later.

[Evoman]

74. Retarder

Okay...no flames here, its not what it looks like.

One time, my mom came home late. She had been stuck on the road because of an accident. So she said, "The accident made me late".

My brother, trying to be clever, said to her, "The accident made you retarded?" (Get it..not THAT kind of retarded, the LATE kind of retarded).

My mom didn't get it (she had only ever heard of the word retarded being used for mentally handicapped people) so she loudly exclaimed, "I AM NOT RETARDER!" (why retarder? Because my mom's first language is spanish...for some reason, she says ed as er).

So now whenever someones late, we say, "Your retarder"

Ha!

[bif]

75. Hi-Keep=ice cream

From my daughter when she was around 3.