What do you remember your parents saying to you as a kid?

[longhorn_92]

I had a fun conversation with my brother about all of the sayings our parents had when we were a kid. Here are just a few:

** You had better wipe that smile off your face before I do it for you.

** Stop your crying before I give you something to cry about.

** Don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been.

** Wipe your feet!

** Look at me when I'm talking to you.

** Don't you look at me like that!

** Did you flush?

** Two wrongs don't make a right.

** Don't talk with your mouth full!

** This hurts me more than it hurts you.

Ha!

What other phrases or sayings can you remember your parents saying to you when you were growing up?...

[MoJo]

Are you my lost brother???

[surprise_i'm_armed]

So I suppose if everyone jumped off the bridge, you would too?

Come eat - you don't know when you'll get another chance!

Did you know that 8 times 8 is 88?

Beware of Greeks wearing sneakers.

The operation was a success but the patient died.

Lazy Mary, will you get up? We need your sheets for the table!
(when we were sleeping too late)

You're not sugar - you won't melt! (when it was raining)

Your mother and I have a mixed marriage - she's white, I'm Italian.

If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything.

Doesn't anyone ever shut the lights out in this house?

Save the pieces!! (When something loud crashed to the floor)

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

That's way 'round Robin Hood's barn.
(Talking about taking an indirect or very lengthy trip somewhere.)

Are there bones in that water? (If you choked while re-hydrating).

That's the part of the chicken that went over the fence last. (dark meat reference?)

SIA

[Oldgringo]

"Don't let him know we're movin' while he's in school tomorrow"

[hheremtp]

Turn the lights off

Shut the door

Because I said so!

[joe817]

You want a drink of water? I do. I'm so dry I'm spitting cotton.
Don't go barking up the wrong tree.
I'm as wide awake as a tree full of owls.
When you're riding out in the pasture, don't go near the bulls. They're onrey.
Do NOT shoot toward the butane tank! It'll explode like a bomb if you hit it! (I think it was actually LP, but for simplistic sake we called it butane.)
Turn off the lights when you leave a room!

[mikeintexas]

You'll put your eye out...

[tacticool]

Don't make me come up there.

Are you trying to air condition the whole neighborhood?

Eat your vegetables.

[joe817]

Are you trying to air condition the whole neighborhood?

[LarryH]

Are you trying to air condition the whole neighborhood?

The Minnesota version of this one is "Are you trying to heat up the whole neighborhood?"

[WildBill]

Are you trying to air condition the whole neighborhood?

The Minnesota version of this one is "Are you trying to heat up the whole neighborhood?"

When I was a kid we never had air conditioning so it was more along the lines of "close the door, you're letting all of the flies in!"

Of course, there's always the ultimate threat - "Wait until your father gets home!"

[marksiwel]

"Boy..." (A Reprimand for being a Smart Aleck)
"You best act right or I'll smack you right"

[RocTrac]

Yep she's yer cousin but its okay she's twice removed.
If'n you ain't bleeden you ain't hurt.
Cut me a switch.
Cut me another switch. (after the first one broke)
Fighten again? Well did you kick his......?
Shut up Candy....Put a rag on it.

[marksiwel]

Yep she's yer cousin but its okay she's twice removed.
If'n you ain't bleeden you ain't hurt.
Cut me a switch.
Cut me another switch. (after the first one broke)
Fighten again? Well did you kick his......?
Shut up Candy....Put a rag on it.

My grandmother told me to cut a switch off the tree. I climbed that son of a gun and wouldnt come down till she promised not to hit me.

[The Annoyed Man]

You'll put your eye out...

I'm surprised that wasn't in the OP.