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43 Of Our Mammies Favourite Phrases

We all love our Ma's dearly and us guys will know that our girls are so envious of our mother/son relationship that often they wish they were the ones who delivered these lines to us...so naturally enough they adapt a few of them along the way...it's either that or we're just big Mammy's boys and secretly love....here are our Mammy's favourite phrases.

  1. It's like talking to the wall...
  2. Not as long as you're under this roof!
  3. Did you brush your teeth?
  4. Put it down! You don't know where it's been!
  5. Shut up and eat your dinner.
  6. Oh and I suppose if he jumped off a cliff, you'd do it too
  7. *Saying the rosary...*
  8. It hurts me more than it hurts you.
  9. We had none of that when I was your age..
  10. Money doesn't grow on trees
  11. We'll have to get a cow with all that milk you're going through.
  12. You must have worms!
  13. Sit back from the television or you’ll go blind.
  14. Don't walk away when I'm talking to you!
  15. I didn't ask who put it there, I said "Pick it up!"
  16. I don't care what "everyone else" is doing.
  17. When you have children you'll understand
  18. If I've told you once ... I've told you a thousand times.
  19. Act your age, not your shoe size!
  20. I'm not running a taxi service!
  21. Were you born in a barn?
  22. Oh you're very funny with your hospital and it's swinging doors response.
  23. Wipe that smirk off your face.
  24. Just you wait until your father gets home!
  25. Did you turn off the immersion?
  26. I'm not going to ask you again.
  27. It’s way past your bedtime.
  28. Look at me when I'm talking to you.
  29. Come here to me you look like a tinker *licks finger *removes dirt from your face
  30. Will you ever turn off that babestation!
  31. Right, where's the wooden spoon?
  32. IAN MICHAEL SMITH...COME HERE THIS INSTANT
  33. What part of NO don't you understand?
  34. And where do YOU think you're going?
  35. You won't be happy until you break that, will you?
  36. Have you been drinking?
  37. What do you think this is? A B&B?
  38. What did your last slave die of?
  39. Don't use that tone with me!
  40. How many times do I have to tell you?
  41. Give me strength..
  42. If I want your opinion I'll ask for it!
  43. Come in here to me and let me have a look at you
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Ian is a contributing writer for CollegeTimes. He is currently partying his ass off for the Summer having spent the past 7 years at various colleges across the globe. While by no means an athlete, he considers himself a world class darts player... If you tweet him he will not respond.