Momisms and Other Expressions

Heard at Home During My Youth

• "Don't get your water hot."
  
  
• "What are you trying to do, heat the outdoors?"
  
  
• "If I hear one more peep out of you . . . ."
    (Followed by the inevitable "Peep")
  
  
• "Firstname Middlename Lastname, you stop that this minute!"
  
  
• "Think of all the starving kids in China who would love to have that."
  
  
• "If you don't stop that I'm gonna knock you into the middle of next week."
  
  
• "I hope that when you grow up you have kids that are just like you."
    (The only curse universally recognized as effective.)
  
  
• "Because I said so."
  
  
• "A grasss in the snake" and "Don't put all your baskets in one chicken."
    (Both from Dad)
  
  
• "If I have to come up there . . . ."
  
  
• "Be nice to your brother."
  
  
• "I'm going to count to three."
  
  
• "We'll see."
  
  
• "Did you say 'Thank you?'"
  
  
• "If Johnny jumped off the bridge would you jump off the bridge too?"
  
  
• "What has gotten into you?"
  
  
• "I'll give you something to cry about."
  
  
• "If it was a snake it would bite you."
  
  
• "You'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on."
  
  
• "Same thing, only different."
  
  
• "We went to different schools together."