What expressions have you heard most often from your parents or grandparents?

[Julie4]

Mine is

"Ah! if youth knew, if old age could."

[MemeSupreme]

"piss ant" is something my grandpa would call you but in like an endearing way lol

"i can quit whenever i want" or "i don't need it but i just like it" something like that

can't think of much else that isn't just boring normal stuff lol

[Potteplante]

Aldrei er góð vísa of oft kveðin. direct translation: a good verse is never spoken to often. Meaning: It's not bad to be reminded of good advices.

Ófróður er sá sem einskis spyr. Direct and meaning: the unintelligent is the one that asks about nothing

[DrPepper12]

"your sister's ass"
"Oh vey"
"Useless as tits on a bull"
"Should've had grandkids first..."
"Youth is wasted on the young"
"There's starving kids in Africa"
"I hope you have kids just like you"
Lots more tbh

[RavVid]

Much the same but not with the French pzazz. I am now old enough to be annoyed by youth. Then again I hang out more with men older than me because they have life experience I can learn from. The youth have nothing.

[NewWaves]

Something my mother says a lot "ah. On fait comment?" Literally translated, it's "how do we do it?" But the meaning is actually "whaddaya gonna do" when you're kind of exasperated and begin to lose hope.

[KostasKouvalis]

"If you know how to count, count on yourself."

"What you think when you are sober, you say and drink when you are drunk."

"A genius won't notice and an idiot will think it's supposed to be like that."

[purplepoppy]

If you scratch a boars arse he'll shit in your hand.

You have to go real slow bit by bit to get your finger up a fly's bottom.

[mattthefatbat]

"it just sounds too much like the right thing to do"
whenever a stupid decision is made.

[exitseven]

My Grandmother used to say that if you walk with a man with a limp that pretty soon you will start to limp. My Grandfather used to say that if you were going to burn oil you are going to smell oil

[zagor]

(When leaving someplace) "We're off like a herd of turtles"

(When I go shopping for them and bring it in) "Jeez, did you buy out the store?"

[Intheclouds00]

Free your mind and your ass will follow.
And,
If I shut up how would you get out?

[Radiate143]

Do the right thing even if you lose friends. Have a backbone.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Especially true of many of today's youth, my grandfather used to say,"The young 'uns can't know what they haven't been taught."

[Staximus]

"Shut your bloody bake!" from my granny when I was a teenager

[aquamarine321]

Since being an adult I haven’t heard, or can’t recall hearing any

[Emmytexrex]

When my mom was alive she like saying when there is life there is hope

[noohair]

What I got was, "There is one thing you don't understand, idiot".

[Zack-Bann]

“You can only make a true friend after a beating”

[NathanDavis]

...*sigh*...

[Anonymous]

" that's mighty white of you"

[Justneedtokno]

Something serious


My mother laughed

[thenerdone]

Youth is wasted on the young.

[lightbulb27]

eat eat!!!

[CubaPirate]

When I was your age!