50 People Share Sayings They Grew Up With Only To Later Find Out They Were Unique To Their Family

My dad doesn’t swear so he always uses the word “suck”. “What the suck is going on here?” “You’re all sucked up” It would always make me and my friends laugh.

He also uses the word bunghole. “That guys a real bunghole” he has a ton of other phrases I can’t think of right now.

My mum used to give us cereal bars in the supermarket to keep us entertained while she was grocery shopping.

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Apparently 'trolley bars' isn't a universal term.

My dad always said “Life is like a bowl of cherries but you just gotta watch out for the sh*t underneath.” And to this day I have no fu**ing clue what it means. I asked him and he said one day you’ll get it. Well Dad I’m 36 and have no clue.

My favourite one is:

"You can f**k a rock all year, and it still won't love you."

My dad would tell us to “ cough it up it could be a gold watch “ if you were coughing. I never understand it.

when my great grandpa would be asked if he was ready he would say "well i aint freddy, Im freddy's brother, Killowatt." no one understood, but when im the ancient person in the family Im gonna start saying it too, to bewilder my younger family members.

All the codes for pooping. Poop jokes seem to be a thing in our family.

"Train coming down the tracks" "Fishing for brown trout" "Dropping the kids off at the pool" "Letting the prairie dogs run free" "Regular system maintenance"

There are a lot more but these are just a few

Dad would always say, “hotter than a garlic fart.” Never heard anyone else say that.

1) Whenever I'd get in trouble, my mom always used to say "Girl, you must think fat meat ain't greasy. Imma show you." Never understood what it meant and to this day, I barely understand. Looked it up recently though, and apparently it's a phrase that is pretty much exclusively used by African Americans.

2) Almost forgot about this one, but when I'd ask my mom what was for dinner, one of her favorite responses used to be, "Air pie and wind pudding." Never heard anyone else in my life say this lmao

I would make some kind of remark, my dad would say “well, aren’t you a fart smeller! I mean, a smart feller!”

My step-father would point at his head and say “kidneys man, kidneys” when he got credit for stuff (answering a trivia question for example). I use it with my students all the time .

My moms say

" You filled up with your eyes instead of your stomach."

Meaning we ordered or put too much food on our plates, then we couldn't even finish half of it.

If we were having a hard time doing a puzzle or something, mom would tell us “you gotta hold your teeth right”. Whenever she bought us presents they came from “the gettin place”.

“Whoa Jackson!” Was something my dad always said. He swore it was a thing in the 70’s, which my mom would always shake her head behind him and mouth, “it was never a thing.”

The term 'to disconcur' meaning to disagree. Tried using it once in a class and got some serious sideways looks. Teacher had to break it to me that it is not a valid word.

If someone said "Where is my (random item)?" My dad would always say "If it was up your ass you'd know." Still have never heard anyone else say that lol

Whenever someone would say "great minds think alike" my dad would ALWAYS respond with "but lesser ones rarely differ". I was a little confused when I said that and people were surprised

Oh, not to forget his golden quote: You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

My father has a bunch of them, but my favorites are: “You’re shaking (or shivering) like you’re sh*tting peach pits” - he’d say this me whenever I would exhibit the slightest sign that I was cold, which he never seemed to be even on the coldest days “Slower than blue molasses” = slower than slow, even slower than regular molasses, usually said about a slow driver in front of him, or to me when I was taking too long to do something (usually getting ready for school) “More useless than tits on a boat” = even more useless than tits on a bull or boar. I’m convinced he used this because he once read the phrase wrong and mistook “boar” as “boat”.

My dad, to this day, would refer to someone f**king up as, "they sh*t the stick". Example: my dad is an "essential worker", and did not experience a furlough from his job because of COVID...I, however, was furloughed from my job when our state shut down...so when I told my parents that I was "out of a job", my dad looked me in the eye and asked, "was it because of COVID...or did you s**t the stick?" COVID, dad. No sh*tting of sticks for me.

When I was a kid and it was raining with the sun out my mom would always say,

"Ah the devil is beating his wife again."

The first time I said it around my wife she just looked at me like I'd grown a second head.