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Mum type sayings:

If all your friends did would you jump off a bridge? (response to everyone else is!)

Because I said so!

Don't make a face like that, it will freeze!

If I have to tell you one more time..!!

Clean your room!

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Mum-type sayings:

I've told you once and I won't tell you again...did you hear me....I said.....

Your sulky face is enough to stop the Town Hall Clock....

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Mum type sayings:

Just wait till your father gets home!

You're not leaving the house dressed like that!

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"Kind words butter no parsnips"

"If I don't know and you don't know, neither does the cow .........."

[odd ones that I learned at school!]

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"They'm all a bit daft 'cept thee and me - and I bain't so sure about thee" - real old Somerset with all the thee and thou and be and baint.
That's not from so very long ago - just shows how our language changes, so perhaps we should,'t be quite so cross abouts kids and their m8s usin txt spk?

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Mum type sayings again:-

I'll wipe the smile off your face.

I'll take my hand off your jaw.

I'll warm my hand on your backside.

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My favorite Chinese curse:

May you live in interesting times! (floods, famines, civil unrest, etc)